Technical Lead, Software Engineering

Career Techniques; Melville (NY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Techniques seeks a Technical Lead to drive AI-driven software projects from inception through deployment in a distributed, scalable environment. You will guide design and implementation across agent frameworks, ensure safety and interoperability, and lead PoC work validating new AI agent workflows and interfaces.

Bring 6+ years in production coding (C# or server-side Java), strong RESTful services, SQL/NoSQL experience, and Agile practice.

Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent experience in CS/Engineering.
• Expertise in SOA, microservices, scalable web services.
• 6+ years of production coding in C# or server-side Java or similar.
• Hands-on RESTful service development.
• Experience with SQL, Hibernate, and DBs (MySQL/Oracle/Postgres).
• Experience with NoSQL (Redis/MongoDB/DynamoDB).
• Experience with Agent OS or Cursor is a plus.
• Experience with automated testing and Agile methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of software projects from inception to deployment.
• Architect and build AI-driven, distributed systems and scalable software.
• Design and develop next-gen AI-driven applications with agent frameworks.
• Lead PoC development for AI agent workflows, APIs, interfaces.
• Evaluate emerging AI agent technologies and roadmap architecture.
• Own technical specification, development, integration, testing, and release.
• Identify technical challenges and optimize performance; refactor as needed.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to deliver transformational changes.

Skills

Service-oriented architecture

Microservices

Database design

Relational databases

Nonrelational databases

RESTful Web Services

SQL

Hibernate

NoSQL

Agent OS / Cursor

Automated testing (TDD/Unit/Mocking)

Agile (Kanban/Scrum/SAFe)

Education

BS Degree in Computer Science/Engineering related degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Hibernate

Job description

As a Technical Lead, you excel at the following core competencies

• Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Takes full ownership over the decisions, actions, and failures

Impact

• Lead the development and implementation of software projects from inception to deployment.
• Deep experience in distributed systems, AI development, and software architecture to help us build and scale intelligent, autonomous systems using Spec Driven Development or Agentic Development.
• You’ll lead the design and development of next-generation AI-driven applications powered by agent frameworks, ensuring performance, safety, and interoperability across our platforms.
• Lead proof-of-concept development to validate new AI agent workflows, APIs, and interfaces.
• Evaluate emerging AI agent technologies and contribute to long-term architectural roadmaps.
• Be a creative problem solver who can draw on an array of expertise and technology to design and implement reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions to challenging problems.
• Work closely with multiple teams to deliver transformational changes to our processes and technologies.
• Lead the technical specification, development, integration, testing and release of software components
• Identify and address technical challenges, optimize code for performance, and participate in ongoing code refactoring.
• Design and implement scalable software systems aligned with organizational architecture and security best practices.

Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science/Engineering related degree or equivalent work experience
• Expertise in Service-oriented architecture, microservices, advanced database schemes, relational and nonrelational databases, highly scalable and available web services.
• 6+ Years of production coding experience, preferably C# or in server-side Java and/or other object-oriented languages.
• Hands‑on experience in building RESTful Web Services
• Prior experience using SQL, Hibernate, and one or more DB (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, etc)
• Prior experience using NoSQL. (Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc)
• Hands‑on experience with Agent OS, Cursor or similar frameworks is a plus
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (TDD, Mocking, Unit/Functional/Integration)
• Extensive experience with Agile methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum or SAFE

Comp: $165-175K