Lead AI Developer

New York, United States, New York Remote Full-time Lead

Base pay $90K - $108K / year

Experience 9+ years

Founding-level, hands-on engineering role building production AI infrastructure and backend systems to power our client next phase of growth. Work directly with the CEO to design and ship asset pipelines, AI agents, metadata systems, search/recommendation, and enterprise delivery APIs.

• Architect and build large-scale data pipelines for 3M+ assets
• Design and operate 24/7 production AI agents for metadata generation and enrichment
• Implement search, retrieval, and recommendation systems
• Build enterprise delivery APIs and integration infrastructure
• Create human-in-the-loop review and QA automation workflows
• Optimize AWS costs and scale cloud infrastructure

• AWS Bedrock
• Python
• Node.js
• Type Script
• AI agents
• Distributed systems
• Open Search

Preferred:
Founding-level role with direct CEO partnership and high ownership

• Build production AI systems at large scale (millions of assets, 24/7 agents)
• Work with enterprise integrations for major platforms (Google, Adobe, Canva, Microsoft)

Required

Important

Golang

Nice to have

Languages

Founding-level, small and fast-moving engineering team working directly with the CEO to architect and ship end-to-end AI infrastructure, agents, and delivery systems.

Team size: 15

Step 1 - Technical interview with the CEO (15-20 min);
Step 2 - Scenario-based interview with the tech lead (problem-solving & past experience);
Step 3 - Culture fit interview (sometimes skipped).

our client is an AI-powered creative infrastructure company managing millions of images and templates across a global network of creatives and serving enterprise clients like Google, Adobe, Canva, and Microsoft.