Tech Lead – Agentic Development & Automation
About the role
The Tech Lead – Agentic Development & Automation will lead and develop a team of junior AI engineers and automation specialists, delivering agentic solutions, automations, and AI-native software for WebLife's ventures and allintalent's clients. The role involves setting technical direction, architecture, and standards, building complex agentic and AI-powered solutions, guiding and mentoring the team, managing client engagements, and tracking delivery outcomes. This is a founding leadership position with responsibility for hiring, developing, and scaling the engineering bench, and offers the opportunity to shape the team's growth and impact.
Must have
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building production LLM systems, including 2+ years scaling an engineering team from the ground up.
- Hands-on experience designing and building AI solutions end to end using LLMs and AI agents, automation platforms (n8n, Zapier, Make), Python, SQL, REST APIs and integrations.
- Full-stack development and cloud deployment experience.
- Strong business and process thinking: able to map how a process works, spot automation opportunities and turn them into solutions with measurable value.
- Experience setting engineering standards and running code and design reviews for a team.
- Experience managing delivery across multiple stakeholders or projects at once, including scoping, prioritization and capacity planning.
- Working knowledge of responsible AI, data privacy, security and governance practices for AI and automation work.
Nice to have
- Preferred: experience with US, UK, European or Australian teams or clients; in a services, agency or staff-augmentation model; and leading fully remote or distributed teams.
Technologies
- Agentic AI
- LLM
- n8n
- Python
- Responsible AI
- REST
- SQL
- Zapier
Highlights
This is a full-time, fully remote position with competitive USD-based compensation. The company offers a flexible work-from-home setup, clear career paths, and a culture focused on innovation and learning. Experience with US, UK, European, or Australian teams is preferred but not required.
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