Remote Dev Lead: GenAI Architecture & Delivery

Eliassen Group; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 152,000 - 165,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401(k) with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead to own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI-driven knowledge discovery solutions. The role balances hands-on engineering with team leadership and collaboration with a Product Owner.

The Dev Lead will drive technical direction, security, and performance, promoting agentic engineering practices and strong standards across services. Remote, contract role with W2 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.
• 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

Software engineering

Solution architecture

GenAI

Team leadership

Python

FastAPI

ReactJS

AWS

Azure

Elasticsearch

Education

BA/BS in computer science

MS in computer science or related

Cloud certification (AWS/Azure)

Tools

FastAPI

ReactJS

AWS

Azure

Elasticsearch

SonarQube

Veracode

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dev Lead to own architecture, code quality, and delivery for an Agile squad building AI-driven knowledge discovery solutions. The role balances hands-on engineering with team leadership and collaboration with a Product Owner.

The Dev Lead will drive technical direction, security, and performance, promoting agentic engineering practices and strong standards across services. Remote, contract role with W2 benefits.