[Hiring] Python Team Lead @Intetics

Role Description

Intetics Inc. is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Python Team Lead to join our dynamic team on a full-time basis. You will join as the first engineer and Team Lead of a growing contractor team, establishing the technical foundations and helping shape how the team works and delivers.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong Python expertise, excellent communication skills, and the confidence to take ownership of problems from discovery through production.

• Lead the technical delivery of automation initiatives, taking responsibility for solution quality and delivery outcomes.
• Work closely with the Product Manager and business stakeholders to understand existing workflows, clarify requirements, and define priorities.
• Translate complex business problems into actionable technical plans and clearly scoped tasks.
• Design and develop Python services, automated workflows, and integrations with existing systems and APIs.
• Apply LLM capabilities where they provide measurable value, with appropriate validation and human review.
• Establish engineering standards, development practices, and a collaborative team culture.
• Guide and mentor engineers, delegate responsibilities, and provide constructive feedback and code reviews as the team grows.
• Proactively identify risks, resolve blockers, and communicate progress and trade-offs clearly.
• Lead technical discussions, handle disagreements constructively, and help stakeholders reach informed decisions.
• Ensure solutions include appropriate testing, monitoring, error handling, and production support.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building and maintaining production systems with Python.
• Proven experience leading an engineering team while remaining actively involved in technical design and development.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including active listening, constructive feedback, and effective conflict resolution.
• Strong ownership: the ability to independently drive problems from initial investigation to a working production solution.
• Experience collaborating directly with Product Managers and business stakeholders, translating business goals into technical delivery.
• Ability to organise team workloads, delegate effectively, support engineers, and maintain accountability for commitments.
• Experience delivering backend automation, system integrations, or solutions that replace manual business processes.
• Practical experience integrating LLMs into applications or automated workflows.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including APIs, databases, data processing, and reliable error handling.
• Experience with automated testing, Git, and production deployment practices.
• Ability to work effectively with evolving requirements, make pragmatic decisions, and explain technical trade-offs.
• Strong spoken and written English, sufficient to lead discussions, clarify complex requirements, and confidently challenge assumptions.

Nice to Have

• Experience building a new engineering team or establishing delivery processes from scratch.
• Experience interviewing and onboarding engineers.
• Experience with document processing, information extraction, or document-heavy workflows.
• Experience evaluating LLM outputs for accuracy, reliability, latency, and cost.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, background jobs, and asynchronous processing.