Lead Engineer, AI EdTech Systems — Remote, Equity & Growth

Owl Ventures; 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

Life and disability insurance

Education stipend

Job summary

Noodle seeks a Lead Engineer for the EDge Product Suite to guide engineering policy, scale serverless infrastructure, and mentor engineers. You will drive AI tool adoption and design agentic systems that integrate with existing products.

You will collaborate with product management, participate in high-level planning, and ensure quality through code reviews, automated tests, and CI practices. This role emphasizes leadership and technical excellence in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in several core programming languages and related frameworks.
• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent business experience.
• Familiarity with industry-standard tools necessary to do your job.
• A keen interest and capability in using AI engineering tools.
• Experience designing and implementing agentic systems and associated tools and frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, LangFuse, OpenAI Agents SDK)
• Proven track record working in agile methodologies to manage product development with the software development team.

Responsibilities

• Assist Technology Leadership in hiring recommendations, resource allocation, and project prioritization.
• Collaborate with the EDge Product Suite Product Manager in prioritization and designing enterprise-level features.
• Define and document organization-level engineering policies and best practices.
• Propose and implement the strategic use of AI engineering tools to enhance product development and team efficiency.
• Design and implement agentic systems that integrate with existing products.
• Provide technology choice, implementation, and improvement recommendations to team leads and engineers.
• Independently audit and propose initiatives to address deficiencies in Noodle’s technology products and processes.
• Work to improve overall software quality by implementing and leading code review, automated testing, continuous integration, and other QA best practices.
• Assist in high-level technology design and project planning.
• Responsible for scaling the suite of EDge applications and continue to aim for a serverless infrastructure where applicable.
• Mentor and act as the line manager for EDge team engineers, assisting with day-to-day duties as needed as well as providing technical and career development advice.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

5-8 years experience

AI tooling interest

Agile methodologies

Leadership & mentoring

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

LangFuse

OpenAI Agents SDK

Python

NodeJS

ReactJS

Bootstrap

ANT Design

SSO

AWS AppSync/GraphQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

Noodle seeks a Lead Engineer for the EDge Product Suite to guide engineering policy, scale serverless infrastructure, and mentor engineers. You will drive AI tool adoption and design agentic systems that integrate with existing products.

You will collaborate with product management, participate in high-level planning, and ensure quality through code reviews, automated tests, and CI practices. This role emphasizes leadership and technical excellence in a fast-paced environment.