Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Piedmont Global is a Strategic Globalization Organization integrating cultural fluency, strategic insight, and custom technology. They are seeking an Engineering Lead to own the end-to-end delivery of core product platforms, leading a squad responsible for shipping production software while collaborating with Product Management.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction, delivery, and operational health of your squad's product area. You are the single-threaded owner. If it ships broken, it's yours. If it ships fast and clean, that's yours too
- Write production code daily. You will contribute directly to critical-path features, core libraries, and infrastructure. This is not a meetings-and-slide-deck role
- Prototype rapidly. When a new capability is needed, whether it's an AI-powered translation pipeline, a Twilio integration, or a new API surface, you build the first working version, validate the approach, and then lead your squad through hardening it for production
- Lead with AI-native development practices. You will use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, local LLMs) as a core part of your daily workflow and establish patterns for your squad to do the same. You are expected to continuously evaluate and adopt tools that increase your squad's output
- Partner directly with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical plans. You will own sprint planning, backlog grooming, and delivery commitments for your squad
- Perform rigorous code reviews and mentor junior and mid-level engineers. You will raise the technical bar on your squad through pairing, review feedback, and setting clear standards for code quality, testing, and documentation
- Own your squad's CI/CD pipeline, deployment process, and production monitoring. You will implement and maintain automated testing, build pipelines, and observability tooling to ensure your squad can ship confidently and respond to incidents quickly
- Manage and hold accountable external development partners contributing to your squad's codebase, ensuring their output meets Piedmont's standards for quality, security, and architectural consistency
- Collaborate with the Director of Engineering and other Squad Leads on cross-cutting concerns including shared libraries, platform infrastructure, security standards, and engineering-wide processes
Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in a technical lead or team lead capacity
- Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript (strict mode) and modern cloud-native architectures (containerized microservices, serverless, event-driven patterns)
- Strong experience with AWS services (ECS/Fargate, SQS, S3, RDS/Aurora, Bedrock, or equivalent cloud platforms)
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools in daily engineering work. Not as an experiment, but as a core part of how you build software
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Prisma or similar ORMs, and RESTful API design
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration. You can take a vague requirement, build a working prototype in days, and iterate based on feedback
- Strong ownership mentality. You do not wait for permission, escalate problems you can solve, or treat production incidents as someone else's responsibility
- Experience working with and holding accountable external vendors or contract developers
- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms, particularly in regulated industries (healthcare, government, legal)
- Familiarity with HIPAA technical safeguards, FedRAMP security controls, or equivalent compliance frameworks
- Experience with real-time communication platforms (Twilio, WebRTC, SIP) or language services technology (OPI, VRI, translation pipelines)
- Experience with AI/ML integration, particularly LLM-powered features, prompt engineering, or AI workflow orchestration (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, Claude, OpenAI)
- Familiarity with Nx monorepos, Fastify, React 18+, and modern frontend tooling (Vite, Tailwind, shadcn/ui)
- Experience with Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Familiarity with Datadog, Sentry, or equivalent observability platforms
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