[Hiring] Engineering Tech Lead, AI @Deel

Role Description

The Tech Lead Engineering, AI plays a critical role in shipping features faster while maintaining quality and reliability. This role focuses on using AI tools like Claude to accelerate development workflows, shipping robust backend solutions at Deel Speed without sacrificing excellence. By leveraging AI as a co-pilot while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals, this role is essential for building scalable, production-grade features that drive business objectives and enhance user satisfaction across 150+ countries.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers, Designers, and QA professionals to understand requirements, scope features, and create seamless experiences.
• Responsible for technical decisions that keep the team's work efficient and in line with the right tools and strategies in place throughout the rest of the company.
• Use AI coding tools like Claude to accelerate feature development—generating code, handling boilerplate, and writing scaffolding. Review all AI-generated code critically before shipping.
• Build and ship AI products, workflows, and agents.
• Provide technical input throughout all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle, including architecture decisions, design feedback, and deployment strategy.
• Collaborate to develop robust new features, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. Help find and fix bugs at Deel Speed while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Ship features end-to-end with ownership: design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, and iterate.
• Ensure top-tier products and services through quality engineering, rigorous testing, and attentive, customer-focused development.
• Communicate constantly with cross-functional teams. Explain technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders. Translate requirements into solutions. Keep everyone aligned.
• Unblock teams by answering questions clearly, debugging issues fast, and proposing solutions to ambiguous problems.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience as a Backend/Software Engineer.
• At least 2 years of experience as a Tech Lead or Senior role.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
• Experience developing with NodeJS or Python.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL fundamentals, particularly with PostgreSQL and ORM libraries.
• Demonstrated experience shipping real products using Claude.
• Excellent communication skills—written and verbal.
• Strong remote collaboration skills.
• Adheres to business processes and systems to meet the company's quality requirements.
• Takes personal accountability for service excellence.
• Information security awareness and commitment to protecting the organization's security and information assets.
• Ensures cost savings and efficiencies in the area of accountability.

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.