[Hiring] Technical Lead, Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required @Next Step Systems

Role 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.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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

• Medical insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Savings Plan Options
• PTO

Compensation

USD 180,000 - USD 200,000 yearly