Technical Lead, AI-Powered Applications

AI Chopping Block; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

AI Chopping Block is seeking a Technical Lead, Applications to own the core architecture connecting AI systems to real-world user experiences. You will oversee backend services, APIs, and client integrations across mobile and desktop, while maintaining speed, reliability, and coherence at scale.

This hands-on leadership role requires close coding involvement, critical architectural decisions, and a focus on production readiness, observability, and cost controls to support rapid, high-quality

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
• Experience delivering AI-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs.
• Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.

Responsibilities

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
• Ensure production-grade reliability: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
• Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes.

Skills

Backend architecture

API design

AI integration

Team leadership

Job description

AI Chopping Block is seeking a Technical Lead, Applications to own the core architecture connecting AI systems to real-world user experiences. You will oversee backend services, APIs, and client integrations across mobile and desktop, while maintaining speed, reliability, and coherence at scale.

This hands-on leadership role requires close coding involvement, critical architectural decisions, and a focus on production readiness, observability, and cost controls to support rapid, high-quality