Remote Dev Lead — AI Architecture & Delivery

Eliassen Group; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 152,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead for a remote contract, owning architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI solutions. You balance hands-on engineering with team leadership, guide technical direction, security, and performance, and promote agentic engineering practices across services.

The role involves collaborating with Product Owners and driving adoption of GenAI technologies, while supporting W2 and corp-to-corp consultants with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering with solution architecture in complex enterprise environments.
• 1+ years building GenAI applications, including RAG, agentic search, workflows, and integrations with commercial LLMs.
• 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
• 2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
• 2+ years leading engineering work in Agile teams with Product Owners, Product Analysts, and Quality Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture and design, balancing functionality with security, scalability, resilience, usability, performance, cost, and reuse.
• Set technical direction for the backlog, supply technical detail for stories, and support refinement and story mapping.
• Define squad technical priorities and advise the 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.

Skills

GenAI applications knowledge

Leadership

Team mentorship

Agile methodologies

Education

BA/BS or MS in computer science or information sciences

AWS or Azure certification preferred

Tools

Python

FastAPI

ReactJS

AWS

Azure

Azure OpenAI

LLMs

Elasticsearch

CI/CD

DevSecOps

SonarQube

Veracode

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead for a remote contract, owning architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI solutions. You balance hands-on engineering with team leadership, guide technical direction, security, and performance, and promote agentic engineering practices across services.

The role involves collaborating with Product Owners and driving adoption of GenAI technologies, while supporting W2 and corp-to-corp consultants with comprehensive benefits.