Senior Tech Lead – AI Systems, Real-Time, Hybrid

QUORE IT : Talent Sourcing & Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 234,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

QUORE IT is hiring a Tech Lead in San Francisco with hybrid work options. The role offers up to $260K base plus equity and requires strong ownership of backend, cloud, and distributed systems. You will lead a 4+ engineer team, influence architecture, and work closely with CTO/CEO.

You’ll build latency-critical systems for millions of voice calls per month, while mentoring engineers and driving best practices. Technologies include Python, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Azure, Inngest, Twilio, and Telnyx.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience with ownership of technical decisions
• Deep expertise in backend, cloud engineering, and distributed systems
• Proven ability to architect for scale with reliability and performance
• Experience mentoring and leading engineers while remaining hands-on

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers
• Own architectural and technical decisions for scalable, latency-critical systems
• Drive engineering best practices, processes, and execution
• Prioritize work around business objectives
• Stay hands-on and contribute 20–30% of time to codebase
• Scale the engineering organization as the company grows
• Build systems handling millions of voice calls per month with sub-second latency

Skills

Leadership

Backend engineering

Cloud engineering

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

Python

Next.js

PostgreSQL

Azure

Inngest

Twilio

Telnyx

Job description

QUORE IT is hiring a Tech Lead in San Francisco with hybrid work options. The role offers up to $260K base plus equity and requires strong ownership of backend, cloud, and distributed systems. You will lead a 4+ engineer team, influence architecture, and work closely with CTO/CEO.

You’ll build latency-critical systems for millions of voice calls per month, while mentoring engineers and driving best practices. Technologies include Python, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Azure, Inngest, Twilio, and Telnyx.