Key skills
AWSEC2LaravelPHPReactSQLAIOpenAIClaudeBIECSCloudFormationLambdaRDSIAMSaaSLeadershipMentoringCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Own the structure and organization of the engineering team — how work is scoped, assigned, tracked, and delivered
- Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and technical prioritization in partnership with product leadership
- Establish and enforce engineering processes: code review standards, release practices, incident response, and documentation habits
- Mentor and develop engineers at all levels through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, and deliberate growth planning
- Identify gaps in team capability or process and drive concrete improvements
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for product, operations, and leadership stakeholders
- Drive clarity on technical decisions — documenting tradeoffs, aligning the team, and ensuring follow-through
- Drive AI adoption and usage across the team for efficiency and growth
- Own architectural decisions for AWS infrastructure, including ECS, CloudFormation, Aurora RDS, EC2, Lambda, and networking
- Review and approve significant technical work; set the standard for what good looks like
- Lead evaluation and integration of third-party services including AI APIs (OpenAI) and platform services (RChilli, ATS integrations)
- Contribute hands-on when needed — particularly in infrastructure, system design, and complex integration work — but this is not primarily a coding role
- Identify and drive resolution of systemic performance, reliability, or scalability issues
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading an engineering team — owning process, delivery, and people development
- Track record of mentoring and growing engineers at different levels
- Strong organizational instincts: you know how to bring structure to ambiguous situations without creating bureaucracy
- Experience worked directly with product and business stakeholders to translate priorities into engineering plans
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English; this is a remote, async-heavy environment and clarity of communication is essential
- Comfortable operating with significant autonomy and accountability
- 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 2-3 years in a staff, principal, or technical lead capacity
- Sufficient depth in PHP/Laravel and React to review work, guide decisions, and understand tradeoffs — hands-on production experience preferred
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining REST APIs and third-party integrations
- Working knowledge of SQL for query review, schema decisions, and performance analysis
- Strong written communication skills in English; this is a remote, async-heavy environment
- Real world usage of AI workflows in development, such as Cursor, Claude Code, Code Rabbit, etc.
- Hands-on production experience with AWS ECS (container orchestration, task definitions, service configuration, capacity providers)
- Strong working knowledge of AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure as code, including writing and maintaining stacks and change sets
- Experience with Aurora RDS, including cluster configuration, parameter groups, read replicas, and performance tuning
- Proficiency with EC2, including instance sizing, AMIs, launch templates, auto-scaling groups, and placement strategies
- Solid understanding of AWS networking: VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways, load balancers (ALB/NLB), and Route 53
- Experience with AWS Lambda for event-driven and scheduled workloads
- Familiarity with IAM, roles, and least-privilege access patterns across AWS services
- Experience integrating with OpenAI APIs (completions, embeddings, or assistants) in a production environment
- Familiarity with resume parsing services such as RChilli or similar document processing APIs
- General experience connecting and maintaining integrations with external SaaS APIs in a production platform
- Experience in the HR tech, recruiting, or workforce management space is nice to have.
- Familiarity with ATS systems, job board integrations (Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, etc.), or HRIS platforms is nice to have.
- Experience with BI tooling such as Retool, Metabase, or similar is a plus.
- QA experience or familiarity with QA processes, including test strategy, automated testing frameworks, and quality gates — experience managing or working alongside a QA function is a plus.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- EC2
- Laravel
- PHP
- React
- SQL
Benefits
- Fully remote; you manage your own schedule and environment
- Engineering culture that values code quality, pragmatism, and clear communication
- You will interface directly with product and engineering leadership
- this is a flat, fast-moving team
- Async-first communication with English as the working language
- PJ engagement structure; you are responsible for your own tax and compliance obligations in Brazil