Technology Lead / Engineering Lead

Digital Forms; Town of Poland (NY); Hybrid; USD 39,126 - 65,210; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid from Poland

Competitive hourly rate: up to 180 PLN

Job summary

Digital Forms is hiring a Technology Lead to steer day-to-day technical ownership for a 15-person Poland-based team spanning backend, frontend, AI/ML and data squads. You’ll report to the part‑time/fractional CIO and act as the primary technical contact for senior client stakeholders in a US‑based project environment.

Join a growing, product/platform company transitioning from services to product; work on an AWS serverless stack with Python, FastAPI and Angular, and help scale the engineering

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with leadership experience in multiple squads.
• Experience leading distributed/offshore teams, client-facing delivery.
• Full-stack with AWS serverless, Python, and modern frontend frameworks (Angular).

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day technical efforts across backend, frontend, AI/ML, data, QA and DevOps.
• Maintain engineering quality, code review standards, and technical debt on AWS serverless stack.
• Ensure architectural coherence and flag strategic changes to CIO.
• Plan sprint delivery, estimate work, manage cross-squad dependencies.
• Serve as primary technical contact for senior client stakeholders.
• Support hiring and growth of the Poland-based team over 12–18 months.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Distributed teams

AWS serverless

Python

Angular/TypeScript

Tools

AWS Lambda

FastAPI

Angular

TypeScript

Job description

At Digital Forms we help mid‑sized service businesses go through digital transformation — part consulting, part building the software ourselves.

This time we’re hiring a Technology Lead for a US‑based company running a proprietary, AI‑integrated SaaS platform in a regulated, healthcare‑adjacent industry. The platform is built on a modern AWS serverless stack, and its AI/LLM features aren’t a roadmap slide — LLM‑based document classification and retrieval‑augmented generation for decision support are already live in production. The company is in the middle of an interesting shift: from a services business to a product/platform company, and it’s scaling its Poland‑based engineering organisation to match.

That’s where you come in. It’s a newly created role — the first dedicated technical leadership hire embedded with the Polish team: 15 engineers across backend, frontend, AI/ML and data squads, plus QA, DevOps and design. You’ll report to the company’s part‑time/fractional CIO, who currently coordinates delivery directly, take over day‑to‑day technical ownership of the team, and become the primary technical point of contact for senior client stakeholders.

What you’ll own

• Day‑to‑day technical leadership across multiple engineering squads (backend, frontend, AI/ML, data) plus QA and DevOps
• Engineering quality, code review standards, and technical debt management on a modern AWS serverless stack (Lambda, Python/FastAPI, Angular/TypeScript)
• Architectural coherence across squads, flagging strategic changes to the CIO
• Sprint‑level delivery planning, estimation, and cross‑squad dependency management
• Being the primary technical contact for senior client stakeholders — translating delivery status and technical risk into business terms
• Supporting hiring and technical growth of the team as it scales over the next 12–18 months

Requirements

Hard skills

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years in a technical leadership role (Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or similar) across multiple teams
• Experience leading distributed or offshore engineering teams, ideally in a client‑facing or vendor‑delivery context
• Full‑stack fluency; hands‑on experience with AWS serverless architectures, Python, and modern frontend frameworks (Angular or similar) strongly preferred

Soft skills & logistics

• Comfortable being the technical face of a team to senior, non‑technical stakeholders
• Fluent professional English
• Based in or near Poland, with reasonable overlap with US business hours

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI/LLM‑integrated features (document processing, RAG pipelines, or similar)
• Experience in a regulated industry (healthcare, fintech, or government‑adjacent)

What we offer

• Up to 180 PLN/h net (B2B, VAT invoice)
• Remote/hybrid from Poland, full‑time, permanent
• Work with AI/LLM features already live in production (LLM‑based document classification, RAG for decision support)
• Growth path toward a senior/VP‑level engineering leadership position within 12–24 months