Dev Lead

Eliassen Group; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 152.000 - 165.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401(k) with company matching

Life insurance

Zusammenfassung

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead to own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI-driven knowledge discovery solutions. The role balances hands-on engineering with team leadership and collaboration with a Product Owner.

The Dev Lead will drive technical direction, security, and performance, promoting agentic engineering practices and strong standards across services. Remote, contract role with W2 benefits.

Qualifikationen

• 7+ years of professional software engineering with solution architecture in complex enterprise environments.
• 1+ years building GenAI applications, including RAG, agentic search, workflows, and integrations with commercial LLMs.
• 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
• 2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
• 2+ years leading engineering work in Agile teams with Product Owners, Product Analysts, and Quality Engineers.

Aufgaben

• Own solution architecture and design, balancing functionality with security, scalability, resilience, usability, performance, cost, and reuse.
• Set technical direction for the backlog, supply technical detail for stories, and support refinement and story mapping.
• Define squad technical priorities and advise the Product Owner on product priorities.
• Own service security and raise feasibility questions and risks early.
• Stay current on GenAI and emerging technologies and share insights across teams.
• Lead agentic engineering practices from planning through implementation and iteration.
• Own pull request process with AI-assisted review before human review and enforce coding norms and patterns.
• Maintain healthy code scanner findings and test coverage, and prevent new technical debt.
• Set guardrails for agent-generated code and require validation against specifications and standards.
• Remove blockers, coach engineers on escalations, validate release timelines, and execute deployments.
• Manage technical dependencies within and across teams and improve squad velocity and flow.
• Foster a safe environment for questions, experimentation, and reversible mistakes; support team morale and balance.
• Model team expectations and deliver direct, constructive feedback.
• Join business conversations with the Product Owner to align technical work with outcomes and share knowledge through forums and sessions.

Kenntnisse

Software engineering

Solution architecture

GenAI

Team leadership

Python

FastAPI

ReactJS

AWS

Azure

Elasticsearch

Ausbildung

BA/BS in computer science

MS in computer science or related

Cloud certification (AWS/Azure)

Tools

FastAPI

ReactJS

AWS

Azure

Elasticsearch

SonarQube

Veracode

Jobbeschreibung

Dev Lead

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Development

Industry: Technology

Workplace Type: Remote

Standard Hours: Open

Reference ID: JN -102026-109242

Date Posted: 10/28/2026

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/OEqqfT

Description

Remote

Our client seeks a Dev Lead to own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI solutions that enable knowledge discovery and reuse. The role balances hands-on engineering with team leadership, unblocking, and partnership with a Product Owner. The Dev Lead will drive technical direction, security, and performance while promoting agentic engineering practices and healthy engineering standards across services and interfaces.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $110.00 to $120.00/hr. w2

JN -102026-109242

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture and design, balancing functionality with security, scalability, resilience, usability, performance, cost, and reuse.
• Set technical direction for the backlog, supply technical detail for stories, and support refinement and story mapping.
• Define squad technical priorities and advise the Product Owner on product priorities.
• Own service security and raise feasibility questions and risks early.
• Stay current on GenAI and emerging technologies and share insights across teams.
• Lead agentic engineering practices from planning through implementation and iteration.
• Own pull request process with AI-assisted review before human review and enforce coding norms and patterns.
• Maintain healthy code scanner findings and test coverage, and prevent new technical debt.
• Set guardrails for agent-generated code and require validation against specifications and standards.
• Remove blockers, coach engineers on escalations, validate release timelines, and execute deployments.
• Manage technical dependencies within and across teams and improve squad velocity and flow.
• Foster a safe environment for questions, experimentation, and reversible mistakes; support team morale and balance.
• Model team expectations and deliver direct, constructive feedback.
• Join business conversations with the Product Owner to align technical work with outcomes and share knowledge through forums and sessions.

Experience Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering with solution architecture in complex enterprise environments.
• 1+ years building GenAI applications, including RAG, agentic search, workflows, and integrations with commercial LLMs.
• 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
• 2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
• 2+ years leading engineering work in Agile teams with Product Owners, Product Analysts, and Quality Engineers.
• Proficiency translating business requirements into technical designs.
• Hands-on Python with FastAPI for REST APIs and microservices.
• Front-end development with ReactJS.
• Building on AWS and Azure, including Azure OpenAI and other LLMs such as Claude.
• Designing GenAI and LLM applications for retrieval and synthesis over large document collections.
• Systems integration, architecture standards and principles, and SaaS selection and integration.
• Elasticsearch development including indexing pipelines, relevancy tuning, and search performance.
• CI/CD and DevSecOps, including code quality and security scanning with tools such as SonarQube and Veracode.
• Application testing, diagnostics, and performance tuning for a global user base.
• Clear technical documentation and architecture artifacts.
• Agentic engineering and specification-driven development with reliable AI coding agent execution across the lifecycle while retaining human accountability.

Education Requirements

• BA/BS or MS in computer science, information sciences, or a similar field, or equivalent experience.
• AWS or Azure cloud certification preferred.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ([e-mail], 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

About Eliassen Group

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affinitive Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.