Lead AI Developer

Recruiting LM, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Awana is seeking a founding-level engineering lead in New York/remote to architect and ship production AI infrastructure. You will design asset pipelines, AI agents, metadata systems, and delivery APIs, working directly with the CEO.

You will lead 24/7 production AI agents, scale the backend for millions of assets, and optimize cloud costs while partnering with enterprise integrations across major platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS Bedrock, Python, Node.js, TypeScript and AI agents.
• Experience with distributed systems and OpenSearch.
• Founding-level role with CEO partnership and high ownership.
• Build production AI systems at large scale (millions of assets, 24/7 agents).

Responsibilities

• Architect and build large-scale data pipelines for 3M+ assets
• Design and operate 24/7 production AI agents for metadata generation and enrichment
• Implement search, retrieval, and recommendation systems
• Build enterprise delivery APIs and integration infrastructure
• Create human-in-the-loop review and QA automation workflows
• Optimize AWS costs and scale cloud infrastructure

Skills

AWS Bedrock

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

AI agents

Distributed systems

OpenSearch

Job description

New York, United States, New York Remote Full-time Lead

Base pay $90K - $108K / year

Experience 9+ years

The role

Founding-level, hands-on engineering role building production AI infrastructure and backend systems to power our client next phase of growth. Work directly with the CEO to design and ship asset pipelines, AI agents, metadata systems, search/recommendation, and enterprise delivery APIs.

What you’ll do

• Architect and build large-scale data pipelines for 3M+ assets
• Design and operate 24/7 production AI agents for metadata generation and enrichment
• Implement search, retrieval, and recommendation systems
• Build enterprise delivery APIs and integration infrastructure
• Create human-in-the-loop review and QA automation workflows
• Optimize AWS costs and scale cloud infrastructure

What we’re looking for

• AWS Bedrock
• Python
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• AI agents
• Distributed systems
• OpenSearch

Preferred: Founding-level role with direct CEO partnership and high ownership

• Build production AI systems at large scale (millions of assets, 24/7 agents)
• Work with enterprise integrations for major platforms (Google, Adobe, Canva, Microsoft)

Required

Important

Golang

Nice to have

Requirements

Languages

The team

Founding-level, small and fast-moving engineering team working directly with the CEO to architect and ship end-to-end AI infrastructure, agents, and delivery systems.

Team size: 15

How hiring works

Step 1 - Technical interview with the CEO (15-20 min); Step 2 - Scenario-based interview with the tech lead (problem-solving & past experience); Step 3 - Culture fit interview (sometimes skipped).

About Awana

our client is an AI-powered creative infrastructure company managing millions of images and templates across a global network of creatives and serving enterprise clients like Google, Adobe, Canva, and Microsoft.