Technical Leads

Next Step Systems
San Francisco, CA, United States
23 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Applications Architecture Code Review Desktop Computing Machine Learning Data Streaming Backend

Job description

As the Technical Lead, Applications, you directly own the core application architecture that connects AI systems to real-world user experiences. You will be responsible for the design, reliability, and evolution of backend services, APIs, and client integrations across mobile and desktop. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will stay close to the code, make critical architectural decisions, and ensure the system remains fast, reliable, and coherent as it scales. This position is 100% Remote.

MUST BE WILLING TO TAKE A 60 MINUTE CODING ASSESSMENT.

Technical Lead 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.

  • Partner closely with Machine Learning (ML) leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features.

  • Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience.

  • Establish a strong execution culture through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership.

  • Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.

  • Balance speed and discipline, shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality., We help companies that are looking to hire Technical Leads for jobs in San Francisco, California and in other cities too. Please contact our IT recruiting agencies and IT staffing companies today!

Requirements

Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required.

  • Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.

  • Experience delivering Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs.

  • Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.

  • Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one.

  • Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity.

  • A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage.

  • Move fast without breaking fundamentals.

Benefits include medical insurance, Dental, Vision, Savings Plan Options, PTO, etc.

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