Remote Dev Lead - GenAI & Architecture

Eliassen Group; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 152,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Our client, Eliassen Group, seeks a Dev Lead to own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI solutions that enable knowledge discovery and reuse. The role balances hands-on engineering with team leadership, unblocking, and partnership with a Product Owner.

The Dev Lead will drive technical direction, security, and performance while promoting agentic engineering practices and healthy standards across services and interfaces. Rate: $110.00–$120.00/hr. w2.

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.
• Own pull request process with AI-assisted review before human review and enforce coding norms and patterns.
• Maintain healthy code scanner findings and test coverage, and prevent new technical debt.
• Set guardrails for agent-generated code and require validation against specifications and standards.
• Remove blockers, coach engineers on escalations, validate release timelines, and execute deployments.
• Manage technical dependencies within and across teams and improve squad velocity and flow.
• Foster a safe environment for questions, experimentation, and reversible mistakes; support team morale and balance.
• Model team expectations and deliver direct, constructive feedback.
• Join business conversations with the Product Owner to align technical work with outcomes and share knowledge through forums and sessions.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

ReactJS

AWS

Azure

GenAI

Security

CI/CD

Elasticsearch

Architectural design

Education

BA/BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure OpenAI

SonarQube

Veracode

Elasticsearch

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Our client, Eliassen Group, seeks a Dev Lead to own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI solutions that enable knowledge discovery and reuse. The role balances hands-on engineering with team leadership, unblocking, and partnership with a Product Owner.

The Dev Lead will drive technical direction, security, and performance while promoting agentic engineering practices and healthy standards across services and interfaces. Rate: $110.00–$120.00/hr. w2.