Remote Dev Lead: GenAI Architecture & Delivery

Eliassen Group; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 152,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead for a remote contract role to own architecture, code quality, and delivery within an Agile squad focused on AI-powered knowledge discovery and reuse. You will balance hands-on engineering with leadership, unblock work, and partner with a Product Owner to drive technical direction, security, and performance.

The role emphasizes agentic engineering practices, guardrails for AI-generated code, and emphasis on modern cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) with AI

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.

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead for a remote contract role to own architecture, code quality, and delivery within an Agile squad focused on AI-powered knowledge discovery and reuse. You will balance hands-on engineering with leadership, unblock work, and partner with a Product Owner to drive technical direction, security, and performance.

The role emphasizes agentic engineering practices, guardrails for AI-generated code, and emphasis on modern cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) with AI