AI Engineering Team Lead

The Impact You'll Have

As a Team Lead, Engineering at Deel, you will lead a cross‑functional team of 6‑10 professionals, balancing leadership and hands‑on technical work with AI. You will drive technical excellence, mentor your team, and deliver scalable, innovative solutions in a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment. By fostering collaboration and adopting best practices, you will ensure the team meets organizational goals and delivers exceptional user experiences.

Get Ready To

Lead with Technical and Team Excellence

• Serve as a technical leader, combining hands‑on development with strategic oversight.
• Design, code, and deliver high‑quality, scalable applications using modern tech stacks (Node.js, Python, or similar).
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance, fostering growth and skill development within the team.
• Ensure best practices in development, testing, and deployment, driving innovation and excellence.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high coding standards and technical quality.

Elevate Team Effectiveness

• Collaborate closely with product and design teams to create extraordinary user experiences.
• Drive technical planning and execution, balancing short‑term objectives with long‑term system health.
• Promote Agile methodologies to enhance team productivity and effectiveness.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing, cross‑team collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Strategize and Execute for Impact

• Define and implement technical strategies in alignment with organizational goals.
• Lead innovation through rapid prototyping, iterative development, and problem‑solving.
• Identify technical risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery.
• Represent your teams in cross‑functional discussions, aligning technical requirements with business objectives.

Build Teams and Foster Culture

• Play an active role in hiring and scaling the teams, ensuring alignment with company values.
• Manage performance cycles, provide structured feedback, and support the professional growth of team members.
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusion, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
• Champion diversity and foster an environment where all team members thrive.

Lead Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless alignment on goals.
• Coordinate efforts across teams to drive complex projects and ensure shared objectives are met.
• Communicate technical challenges, opportunities, and solutions effectively to stakeholders.
• Push back on product decisions when necessary, presenting well‑reasoned arguments to prioritize technical health, scalability, and long‑term success.
• Resolve complex, multi‑team technical challenges by fostering collaboration across disciplines.

MUST‑HAVE (NON‑NEGOTIABLE TECHNICAL BAR)

• AI/LLM Capability
  • Hands‑on experience with AI tools, LLMs, or AI‑augmented development workflows.
  • Proven ability to integrate or leverage AI capabilities within applications.
  • Experience working with modern AI frameworks, RAG systems, prompt engineering, or agent orchestration.
  • Demonstrated expertise in building AI‑powered features or systems in production environments.
  • Understanding of LLM behavior, non‑determinism, cost optimization, and hallucination detection.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Solid understanding of object‑oriented programming (OOP) principles.
  • Experience designing maintainable, scalable systems.
  • Ability to write clean, structured, and testable code.
• Strong SQL skills
  • Ability to write complex queries from scratch.
  • Deep understanding of data structures and query performance/impact.
• Experience working with APIs and distributed systems
  • Debugging integrations and system interactions.
  • Understanding data flow across services.
• Data analysis proficiency
  • Experience with analyzing data and leveraging it into actionable insights.
• Strong problem‑solving ability
  • Root cause analysis across code, data, and systems.
• Experience working in production environments
  • Handling incidents, debugging issues, and managing escalations.

You're the Leader We're Looking For if You

• Have hands‑on, impactful experience with AI/LLM technologies and can demonstrate proficiency in building or shipping AI‑powered features.
• Come from either a Backend Engineer or Frontend Engineer background — we value diverse technical foundations as long as you have demonstrated AI capability.
• Have robust experience in product companies where you've shipped features and driven user impact.
• Thrive in environments requiring both technical expertise and leadership.
• Combine strategic vision with attention to detail in decision‑making.
• Demonstrate a commitment to collaboration, continuous learning, and team success.
• Drive innovation while balancing immediate goals with long‑term technical health.

Bonus Points

• Experience navigating cross‑browser and cross‑platform development challenges.
• Contributions to open‑source projects or technical communities.

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

Some things you'll enjoy

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location.
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access.

Equal‑Opportunity Employer Statement

At Deel, we’re an equal‑opportunity employer that values diversity and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity, or other legally protected characteristics.