Remote Position
[Remote] Engineering Team Lead / Engineering Manager - Python / Defense
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Strativ Group is recruiting for a frontier AI startup seeking an Engineering Team Lead/Manager to lead the team building distributed backend systems for autonomous coding agents. The role combines technical leadership and hands-on engineering to develop scalable production infrastructure and translate AI research into robust software.
Responsibilities
- As Engineering Team Lead, you'll take ownership of a highly technical engineering team responsible for building the infrastructure behind large-scale autonomous engineering
- You'll provide technical direction across architecture, engineering standards and delivery, while remaining hands-on with some of the most challenging backend and distributed systems problems in the company
- You'll work closely with researchers, engineers and leadership to turn ambitious ideas around autonomous agents into robust, scalable production systems
- You'll help shape the team's technical roadmap, mentor and develop engineers, contribute to hiring, and establish the engineering practices needed as the organization scales
- At the same time, you'll remain close enough to the code and architecture to make meaningful technical contributions and guide critical design decisions
- Day to day, this means leading engineers working on orchestration and execution infrastructure for large-scale code transformation, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable and secure in production, and collaborating closely with research teams to translate cutting-edge AI concepts into battle-tested software
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Python and backend systems
- Proven experience leading & developing high-performing engineering teams (of at least 5 h/c)
- Strong distributed systems and backend architecture experience
- Track record of owning technical direction and delivering complex production systems
- Experience hiring, mentoring and developing engineers
- Comfortable remaining hands-on and contributing technically
- Background in compilers, static analysis, or language tooling (desirable)
- Experience in Defense (desirable)
- Exposure to formal methods or verification (a plus)
Benefits
- Remote-first, with monthly travel to the Boston, MA HQ.
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