Lead Engineer - AI-Driven EdTech Platform

Lever, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from NYC office or home office

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Equity opportunities

Annual education stipend

Job summary

Noodle is a leading higher education technology partner delivering AI-powered SaaS solutions like EDge. The Lead Engineer, Engineering (EDge Product Suite) will guide architecture, governance, and strategic tooling, while mentoring EDge engineers and aligning with product goals.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers, senior leadership, and cross-functional teams to scale the platform and improve quality using serverless patterns where possible.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in several core programming languages and related frameworks.
• Familiarity with industry-standard tools necessary to do your job.
• Interest and capability in using AI engineering tools.
• Experience designing and implementing agentic systems and tools (LangGraph, LangChain, LangFuse, OpenAI Agents SDK).
• Proven track record in agile methodologies to manage product development.

Responsibilities

• Assist Technology Leadership in hiring recommendations, resource allocation, and project prioritization.
• Collaborate with EDge Product Suite Product Manager in prioritization and designing enterprise-level features.
• Define and document engineering policies and best practices.
• Propose and implement AI engineering tool strategies to boost product development and team efficiency.
• Design and implement agentic systems that integrate with existing products.
• Provide technology recommendations to team leads and engineers.
• Audit and propose initiatives to address deficiencies in Noodle’s technology products and processes.
• Improve software quality through code reviews, automated testing, CI, and QA practices.
• Assist in high-level technology design and project planning.
• Scale the EDge applications and pursue serverless infrastructure where applicable.
• Mentor and act as line manager for EDge team engineers.

Skills

Leadership

Agile

Stakeholder mgmt

Data-driven

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Python

NodeJS

ReactJS

Bootstrap

ANT Design

SSO

AWS AppSync (GraphQL)

Golang

AWS Lambda

SNS

API Gateway

PostgreSQL

AWS Aurora

LangGraph

LangChain

LangFuse

OpenAI Agents SDK

Job description

Noodle is a leading higher education technology partner delivering AI-powered SaaS solutions like EDge. The Lead Engineer, Engineering (EDge Product Suite) will guide architecture, governance, and strategic tooling, while mentoring EDge engineers and aligning with product goals.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers, senior leadership, and cross-functional teams to scale the platform and improve quality using serverless patterns where possible.