Responsibilities
- Define and own infrastructure and platform architecture across environments
- Lead technical decisions around scalability, reliability, and system performance
- Define and promote AI-assisted and agentic development practices (e.g. Claude Code, sub-agents, plugins) to improve team velocity and quality
- Design and support an API-first, modular architecture
- Establish DevOps practices (CI/CD, deployment, release processes)
- Own cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar)
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting standards
- Support structured data/config pipelines
- Act as the most senior technical authority across infrastructure and platform concerns
Qualifications
- +5 years proven experience defining and owning infrastructure/platform architecture for scalable products
- Experience working in AI-forward, agentic development workflows (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) and leveraging them to accelerate development
- Strong experience with AWS and modern cloud-based systems
- Experience establishing DevOps practices CI/CD, monitoring, release pipelines
- Comfortable operating as the most senior technical decision-maker in a team
- English proficiency at B2 level or higher (able to communicate effectively in written and spoken form in professional settings)
- Fully remote — work from anywhere
- Benefits — PTO and other perks depending on the client
- Work with US-based companies building exciting, impactful products
- Join collaborative, high-performance teams that value your input and expertise
If you’re a Lead Engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges, delivering elegant solutions, and working with talented teams around the world, we’d love to hear from you.
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What We Do
Since 2010, we’ve helped startup founders and fast-growing companies worldwide “staff and scale” their software design and engineering teams. Our sole purpose is to help ensure you have the best talent on your team to accomplish your technology and business requirements. We are located in Colombia, which is in the center of the western hemisphere. Our team is focused on hiring in the top 5% of developers and designers in Colombia. Benefits • Collaboration: Partners have complete visibility throughout the candidate selection process and collaborate with the Ideaware recruitment team to interview and secure the best talent. • Allocation: Your hand-selected team is 100% fully dedicated to you. • Managed operation: Ideaware provides the operational support and facilities for your team to do their best work. • Working Hours: The Ideaware teams work within the EST (GMT-5) to PST (GMT-8) time zones to ensure overlap with your workday across North America. • Proximity: The Ideaware office is only a 2-hour flight from Miami or 5 from Dallas. • Transparent costs: Flat monthly rates and no hidden fees. • Cost savings: Potential savings of up to 60% of the costs from hiring a US-based team. • Culture: We encourage our partners to embrace the software design and engineering teams as their own. These teams will feel like a seamless extension of your company.
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