Remote Lead Engineer - Architect, Build & Mentor

AI Chopping Block; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

KIRA is seeking a Lead Engineer to take technical ownership of complex products and systems and raise the engineering bar across the team. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, designing systems, writing and reviewing code, solving difficult engineering problems, and guiding other engineers to drive major initiatives from idea to production.

You should be comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, making strong technical decisions while staying close to code to execute

Qualifications

• This role requires a strong software engineering background with hands-on coding and production systems experience.
• Deep expertise in backend and/or frontend, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and architecture skills with experience making technical decisions for large-scale systems.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lead major projects while remaining hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and execution of major products, features and engineering initiatives.
• Design scalable, reliable and maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infrastructure.
• Stay hands-on with engineering through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging and production problem-solving.
• Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs that balance speed, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Break ambiguous product and technical problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
• Set a high bar for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability and production reliability.
• Review technical designs and code from other engineers and provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Mentor engineers and help strengthen technical capability across the team.
• Identify technical risks, bottlenecks and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
• Work closely with engineering, product, design and AI teams to ship high-quality products quickly.
• Improve engineering tooling, development practices and automation to increase team velocity.
• Own systems beyond release — monitor production, investigate incidents, resolve root causes and continuously improve reliability.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Hands-on coding

Code reviews

Mentor engineers

Production systems

Architectural decisions

Cross-team collaboration

Ship high-quality software

Observability

Job description

KIRA is seeking a Lead Engineer to take technical ownership of complex products and systems and raise the engineering bar across the team. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, designing systems, writing and reviewing code, solving difficult engineering problems, and guiding other engineers to drive major initiatives from idea to production.

You should be comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, making strong technical decisions while staying close to code to execute