[Hiring] AI Engineering Team Lead @Deel

Role Description

As a Team Lead, Engineering at Deel, you will lead a cross-functional team of 6-10 professionals, with a balance of leadership and hands-on technical work with AI. You will drive technical excellence, mentor your team, and deliver scalable, innovative solutions in a fast-paced, startup-like environment. By fostering collaboration and adopting best practices, you will ensure the team meets organizational goals and delivers exceptional user experiences.

Get Ready To

• Lead with Technical and Team Excellence:
  • Serve as a technical leader, combining hands-on development with strategic oversight.
  • Design, code, and deliver high-quality, scalable applications using modern tech stacks (Node.js, Python, or similar).
  • Provide mentorship and technical guidance, fostering growth and skill development within the team.
  • Ensure best practices in development, testing, and deployment, driving innovation and excellence.
  • Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high coding standards and technical quality.
• Elevate Team Effectiveness:
  • Collaborate closely with product and design teams to create extraordinary user experiences.
  • Drive technical planning and execution, balancing short-term objectives with long-term system health.
  • Promote Agile methodologies to enhance team productivity and effectiveness.
  • Facilitate knowledge sharing, cross-team collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Strategize and Execute for Impact:
  • Define and implement technical strategies in alignment with organizational goals.
  • Lead innovation through rapid prototyping, iterative development, and problem-solving.
  • Identify technical risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery.
  • Represent your teams in cross-functional discussions, aligning technical requirements with business objectives.
• Build Teams and Foster Culture:
  • Play an active role in hiring and scaling the teams, ensuring alignment with company values.
  • Manage performance cycles, provide structured feedback, and support the professional growth of team members.
  • Cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusion, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
  • Champion diversity and foster an environment where all team members thrive.
• Lead Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Partner with product, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless alignment on goals.
  • Coordinate efforts across teams to drive complex projects and ensure shared objectives are met.
  • Communicate technical challenges, opportunities, and solutions effectively to stakeholders.
  • Push back on product decisions when necessary, presenting well-reasoned arguments to prioritize technical health, scalability, and long-term success.
  • Resolve complex, multi-team technical challenges by fostering collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AI tools, LLMs, or AI-augmented development workflows.
• Proven ability to integrate or leverage AI capabilities within applications.
• Experience working with modern AI frameworks, RAG systems, prompt engineering, or agent orchestration.
• Demonstrated expertise in building AI-powered features or systems in production environments.
• Understanding of LLM behavior, non-determinism, cost optimization, and hallucination detection.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.
• Experience designing maintainable, scalable systems.
• Ability to write clean, structured, and testable code.
• Strong SQL skills, including the ability to write complex queries from scratch.
• Deep understanding of data structures and query performance/impact.
• Experience working with APIs and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in data analysis and leveraging it into actionable insights.
• Strong problem-solving ability, including root cause analysis across code, data, and systems.
• Experience working in production environments, handling incidents, debugging issues, and managing escalations.

Requirements

• Have hands-on, impactful experience with AI/LLM technologies and can demonstrate proficiency in building or shipping AI-powered features.
• Come from either a Backend Engineer or Frontend Engineer background.
• Have robust experience in product companies where you've shipped features and driven user impact.
• Thrive in environments requiring both technical expertise and leadership.
• Combine strategic vision with attention to detail in decision-making.
• Demonstrate a commitment to collaboration, continuous learning, and team success.
• Drive innovation while balancing immediate goals with long-term technical health.

Bonus Points

• Experience navigating cross-browser and cross-platform development challenges.
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical communities.

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status, and location.
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access.