Remote Dev Lead: GenAI Architecture & Delivery

Eliassen Group; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 152,000 - 165,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k) 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 enabling knowledge discovery and reuse. The role blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, unblocking and collaboration with a Product Owner.

You will drive technical direction, security, and performance while promoting agentic engineering practices across services. We offer W2 or corp-to-corp options with benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k matching,

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.
• Proficiency translating business requirements into technical designs.
• Hands-on Python with FastAPI for REST APIs and microservices.
• Front-end development with ReactJS.
• Building on AWS and Azure, including Azure OpenAI and other LLMs such as Claude.
• Designing GenAI and LLM applications for retrieval and synthesis over large document collections.
• Systems integration, architecture standards and principles, and SaaS selection and integration.
• Elasticsearch development including indexing pipelines, relevancy tuning, and search performance.
• CI/CD and DevSecOps, including code quality and security scanning with tools such as SonarQube and Veracode.
• Application testing, diagnostics, and performance tuning for a global user base.
• Clear technical documentation and architecture artifacts.
• Agentic engineering and specification-driven development with reliable AI coding agent execution across the lifecycle while retaining human accountability.

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

GenAI experience

Team leadership

Python

React

AWS/Azure

Security awareness

DevSecOps

Architecture design

Agile

REST APIs

Education

BA/BS in CS or related

AWS/Azure certs preferred

Tools

FastAPI

ReactJS

Azure OpenAI

Elasticsearch

CI/CD tools

SonarQube

Veracode

Job description

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

You will drive technical direction, security, and performance while promoting agentic engineering practices across services. We offer W2 or corp-to-corp options with benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k matching,