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Technical Lead, Applications
Posted: 07/17/2026
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Number: 32117
Job Location: Onsite
Industry: SOFT - Software Companies
Job Description
Job Title: Technical Lead, Applications
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Technical Lead, Applications with our client that is fully remote.
Job Description:
Job Responsibilities:
Job Qualifications:
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About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Technical Lead, Applications with our client that is fully remote.
Job Description:
- As Technical Lead, Applications, you directly own the core application architecture that connects AI systems to real-world user experiences.
- You are responsible for the design, reliability, and evolution of backend services, APIs, and client integrations across mobile and desktop.
- This is a hands-on leadership role. You stay close to the code, make critical architectural decisions, and ensure the system remains fast, reliable, and coherent as it scales.
Job Responsibilities:
- Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
- Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
- Ensure production-grade reliability: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
- Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
- Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes.
- Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features.
- Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience.
- Establish a strong execution culture through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership.
- Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.
- Balance speed and discipline – shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.
- Production systems are observable, monitored, and stable under real-world load.
- Decisions consistently balance speed, cost, reliability, and user experience.
- Features across backend, mobile, and desktop work smoothly and reliably.
- Latency and reliability improve measurably over time.
Job Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in engineering leadership (managing teams or managing managers).
- Strong hands-on technical background: you’ve built production systems and can still credibly review architecture, code, and system design.
- Deep understanding of cloud-based systems (AWS, GCP, or Azure), APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and modern infrastructure.
- Proven track record of building and scaling internal tools or platforms that serve cross-functional business teams — not just engineering.
- Experience making build-vs-buy decisions and managing a portfolio of custom-built and third-party tools.
- Strong experience designing and building internal platforms and automation systems
- Strong product thinking: you define success in terms of user outcomes and business impact, not technical output.
- Experience navigating the full SDLC from ideation through deprecation — you know when to build, iterate, and retire.
- Excellent communication skills: you can articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical executives and translate business problems into engineering roadmaps.
- Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
- Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
- Experience delivering AI-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs.
- Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.
- Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one.
- Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity.
- A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage.
- Move fast without breaking fundamentals
Job Details:
- Job Type: Direct Hire
- Pay Range: Market Rate
- Location: Fully Remote.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.