Remote Tech Lead: AI Platform Architect & Builder

FORMAS.AI; Singapore; Remote; SGD 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Future-Proof Your Career

Real Ownership Early

Direct Collaboration with Founders

Remote & Flexible

Job summary

FORMAS.AI is seeking an experienced engineering leader to own platform architecture and drive the delivery of production AI-powered design tools. You will mentor engineers, set quality standards, and make critical build-versus-buy calls in a fast-paced, remote-friendly environment.

You will oversee cloud data, real-time systems, and billing integrations while embedding AI across development, review, debugging, and documentation to boost team productivity and product impact.

Qualifications

• 10 to 20 years of engineering and management experience.
• Experience leading engineers in a high-paced environment and shipping production systems.
• Experience building AI-powered products and guiding architecture decisions.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001 or similar governance/compliance processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the platform architecture including modular backend and real-time systems.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, performance, and security; lead code reviews.
• Ship code daily and manage APIs, frontend features, infrastructure, and AI integrations.
• Maintain and extend cloud data, authentication, and real-time data layers; optimize infrastructure.
• Lead real-time collaboration features and evolve media pipelines and billing integrations.
• Drive testing culture with regression, contract, smoke, and stress tests; own monitoring and alerting.
• Make clear build-vs-buy calls and manage technical debt and scope.
• Build governance and trust layers, supporting ISO certifications.

Skills

AI product experience

Governance & compliance

Cloud-native data at scale

Strong architecture

Real-time systems

Frontend proficiency

Cloud infrastructure

AI-native development

Security awareness

Leadership in high-paced environment

Tools

Node.js

Job description

FORMAS.AI is seeking an experienced engineering leader to own platform architecture and drive the delivery of production AI-powered design tools. You will mentor engineers, set quality standards, and make critical build-versus-buy calls in a fast-paced, remote-friendly environment.

You will oversee cloud data, real-time systems, and billing integrations while embedding AI across development, review, debugging, and documentation to boost team productivity and product impact.