Описание:
CleverLabs is a software development company specializing in building web and API applications. Since 2015, it has developed products from scratch as part of distributed product teams on long-term projects. Its clients are based in the USA, the UK, the EU, and the MENA region.
Задачи:
- Lead the frontend, backend, and AI/ML team
- own day-to-day delivery and code quality while building alongside the team Translate product priorities into scoped tasks, define acceptance criteria, assign ownership, and coordinate dependencies Drive work from planning through implementation, testing, and release
- remove blockers and communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs to the founders and CTO Assess the existing MVP and agree with the CTO on what to retain, refactor, or rebuild, balancing product delivery with reliability and maintainability
- Implement complex features, resolve technical blockers, and build critical API integrations alongside the team Review code and architecture across the stack
- verify that frontend, backend, and AI/ML components work together and meet the agreed quality bar Validate AI-generated code and AI-powered features through review, testing, and evaluation
- keep deterministic calculations and business rules reliable Identify required API integrations and services, evaluate build-versus-buy options, and coordinate provider requirements Establish practical code review, testing, CI/CD, release, monitoring, and incident-handling practices for a small team Coach engineers and interns, give actionable feedback, and help the team improve technical judgment and delivery ownership Protect sensitive user data, enforce appropriate access controls, and support partner security reviews and the path toward SOC 2
Требования:
- 8+ Years building and operating production software, including responsibility for leading engineers and delivering a product or substantial product area
- Experience as a hands-on Tech Lead, Engineering Lead, or Engineering Manager, combining recent coding work with team leadership and delivery ownership
- Experience coordinating frontend and backend work, making architecture decisions, reviewing code, and resolving integration and release issues
- Strong hands-on development skills in Python or TypeScript, with the ability to understand, review, and guide implementation across a full-stack system
- Experience taking an early product to real users or bringing a fast-built MVP to a reliable production standard
- Ability to break ambiguous goals into implementable tasks, set priorities with stakeholders, manage dependencies, and track delivery risks
- Production API integration experience, including validation, retries, idempotency, failure handling, and data consistency
- Practical understanding of LLM integrations, tool calling, structured outputs, and evaluation, and the judgment to distinguish model reasoning from deterministic business logic
- Experience mentoring engineers and establishing effective testing, code review, and release practices
- Sound security judgment when working with sensitive personal or financial data
- English at C1 or higher and clear communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Backend expertise in Python or TypeScript
- current backend implementation and service boundaries will be clarified with the CTO during technical discussions
- Frontend experience with React and TypeScript, including architecture, integration, and code review
- Data experience with PostgreSQL, relational modeling, data ingestion, background jobs, and queues
- Integration experience with third-party APIs, OAuth, provider adapters, and reliable end-to-end workflows
- Applied AI experience with LLM tool calling, structured outputs, evaluations, and verification of AI-assisted implementation
- Будет плюсом: leading a small startup engineering team across frontend, backend, and AI/ML
- fintech, travel, loyalty, payments, or account aggregation experience, including providers such as Plaid or MX
- SOC 2 preparation, enterprise security reviews, or technical due diligence during fundraising
- optimization, graph search, constraint solving, or rules engines
- leading distributed teams, including contractors and interns
Условия:
- Full-time remote engagement with reliable overlap with US Eastern working hours
- The client expects high availability for urgent product issues. Working hours, response expectations, and any out-of-hours support arrangements must be clarified before the engagement starts
- Start date, compensation, and initial engagement duration are to be agreed; the client is interested in continuity and a longer-term collaboration
- MacBook Pro work equipment
- Individual English lessons
- Coverage of sports and wellness expenses
- Social health benefits
- Gifts for holidays and special events
- Professional training, conference participation, internal meetups, and seminars