AI-Driven Software Team Lead — Hands-On Architect & Leader

Compensation: $125K to $150K + bonus + RRSP match

Sage Recruiting is partnering with a well-established, enterprise software company to find a Team Lead for their AI-powered meeting intelligence product, which turns relationship-manager and client conversations into structured, CRM-ready insight automatically. It's a real problem for anyone managing high-value client relationships: the context from a call either gets captured properly, or it quietly disappears. This product exists to make sure it's the former.

The team you'd be joining is the most AI-forward group inside the company. They build with AI wired directly into the development workflow itself: tickets tagged for AI get their own AI developer node spun up automatically, every code change goes through a dedicated AI reviewer, and the team is actively expanding what agentic workflows get to own. It's a rare combination, startup-style ownership and pace, inside a stable, well-established, and profitable company with real customers and real room to keep growing.

The Role

You'd be joining a small team of 4 that's about to double in size. Expect to stay genuinely hands-on: 60–70% of your time is coding, architecture, and system design, even as the team scales under you. The rest is running the team well, agile ceremonies, 1:1s, tech-debt tracking, and representing the team's technical decisions in leadership conversations.

What You'll Do

• Stay hands-on: ~60–70% of your time is coding, architecture, and system design, even as the team scales.
• Own the backlog with the team's product owner: grooming, estimation, and sprint planning.
• Hold regular 1:1s and check-ins, and flag delays or blockers before they become surprises.
• Partner with the team's tester on coverage and test automation, especially for AI-driven features.
• Track tech debt and flag dependencies approaching end of support, with a clear line open to product.
• Own high-level system architecture and end-to-end workflow design, and explain both clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Represent the team's technical decisions in bi-weekly leadership meetings
• Mentor and coach your team, including performance reviews.
• Build out team process and structure as headcount roughly doubles under you.

Who You Are

You're a proven technical lead who's already done this, not someone looking for their first shot 're genuinely AI-native in how you build, comfortable owning architecture and system design, and you communicate risk and tradeoffs before they become someone else's surprise.

You Must Have

• Proven Team Lead experience: system design and architecture ownership, backlog management and reporting, engineering workflow optimization, presenting and defending timelines to leadership, performance conversations, coaching and mentoring engineers.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI workflows in development, not just using an AI chat assistant.
• Strong architecture and systems design instincts.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Solid foundation in C#/.NET (.NET 10), Type Script, and REST API design.
• Real CI/CD ownership.
• Cloud deployment experience (AWS preferred, but not mandatory).
• Unit and integration testing as second nature.

It's a Bonus If You Have

• Vue 3 specifically.
• MongoDB.
• Familiarity with other tools in the tech stack (outlined below)
• Experience navigating a team through active growth.
• Formal performance-review experience (we'll support you here if you're newer to it).
• Startup background, full software development lifecycle ownership, self-directed learning style.
• Frontend: Vue 3, Type Script, Vite, Tailwind, RekaUI, Vitest, Playwright
• CI/CD: Git Hub Actions
• Containerization: Docker

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 days: mostly learning, the product, the roadmap, internal processes and tooling, the…