Remote Dev Lead: GenAI Architecture & Delivery

Eliassen Group; Phoenix (AZ); 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 focused on owning architecture, code quality, and delivery for AI-enabled solutions. The position balances hands-on engineering with team leadership, unblocking, and product collaboration to drive technical direction, security, and performance.

The role emphasizes agentic engineering practices, secure coding, and scalable designs across services, with a strong emphasis on GenAI integration, RAG workflows, and cloud-based

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

GenAI

Architecture design

Python

FastAPI

ReactJS

AWS

Azure

Azure OpenAI

LLMs

Elasticsearch

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

AWS or Azure certification

Tools

SonarQube

Veracode

Azure DevOps

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead for a remote, contract role focused on owning architecture, code quality, and delivery for AI-enabled solutions. The position balances hands-on engineering with team leadership, unblocking, and product collaboration to drive technical direction, security, and performance.

The role emphasizes agentic engineering practices, secure coding, and scalable designs across services, with a strong emphasis on GenAI integration, RAG workflows, and cloud-based