Remote AI Solutions Lead (Contract)

Eliassen Group; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 152,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead for a remote contract role to own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI-powered knowledge discovery solutions. The role blends hands-on engineering with leadership, unblocking impediments, and partnering with a Product Owner to steer technical direction, security, and performance.

The position supports W2 and corp-to-corp consultants with benefits and a strong focus on agentic engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering with solution architecture in complex enterprise environments.
• 1+ years building GenAI applications, including RAG and agentic search.
• 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
• 2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture and design, balancing functionality with security, scalability, resilience, usability, performance, cost, and reuse.
• Set technical direction for the backlog and support refinement and story mapping.
• Define squad priorities and advise 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.
• Maintain healthy code scanner findings and test coverage, and prevent new technical debt.
• Set guardrails for agent-generated code and require validation against specs.
• Remove blockers, coach engineers, validate release timelines, and help deployments.
• Manage technical dependencies and improve squad velocity and flow.
• Foster a safe environment for questions and experimentation.

Skills

GenAI

Python

ReactJS

CI/CD

Security

Education

BA/BS in CS or related

AWS or Azure cert

Tools

AWS

Azure

FastAPI

OpenAI/LLMs

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead for a remote contract role to own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI-powered knowledge discovery solutions. The role blends hands-on engineering with leadership, unblocking impediments, and partnering with a Product Owner to steer technical direction, security, and performance.

The position supports W2 and corp-to-corp consultants with benefits and a strong focus on agentic engineering practices.