Tech Lead

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Tech Lead overseeing engineering of AI mental health product Claro at Pink Elephant. Leading a team and writing code for backend, AI services, or mobile development.

Responsibilities:

  • Own technical direction, architecture, and delivery quality within your domain
  • Write production code regularly - around 40–60% hands-on
  • Lead and mentor a team of 3-4 engineers - and scale it further timely
  • Turn product goals into clear engineering plans together with PM, CPO, and CTO
  • Make pragmatic technical decisions for an early-stage, high-trust health product
  • Own quality: tests, observability, performance, security, and production reliability
  • Help build systems that handle sensitive mental health data responsibly
  • Drive engineering rituals: planning, estimations, retrospectives, design reviews, ADRs
  • Participate in hiring and onboarding
  • Work with AI and clinical teams to integrate LLM features safely into user-facing workflows

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience
  • 1.5+ years as a Tech Lead, Team Lead, Staff Engineer, or Senior Engineer with leadership responsibilities
  • Strong hands-on expertise in at least one of: Python backend, Python AI services, native iOS / Kotlin Multiplatform mobile
  • Experience building SaaS, mobile, consumer health, or other products with real users
  • Strong ownership mindset - from backlog breakdown to deployment, monitoring, and support
  • Ability to work in early-stage ambiguity, make trade-offs, and move fast without sacrificing quality
  • Solid architecture fundamentals: APIs, databases, queues, integrations, reliability patterns
  • Comfortable with Docker, CI/CD, cloud deployments, and production operations
  • Understanding of security, privacy, and sensitive data handling — or willingness to learn fast
  • Product thinking: you care not only about how the system works, but why it matters to users
  • English — Intermediate+ for documentation and distributed team communication.

Benefits:

  • Future equity/option benefits
  • High ownership, low bureaucracy, and direct access to leadership
  • Join early and influence architecture, product direction, and engineering culture
  • Small, strong technical team and experienced CTO
  • No legacy systems and no bloated technology zoo - we make deliberate technical choices
  • Work at the intersection of AI, mental health, consumer product, and clinical support