Position: Lead Engineer or Tech Lead or Staff Engineer
Location: Austin, TX
About the Role
We are seeking a highly hands-on engineering leader to drive technical strategy, AI integration, and backend development for our team in Austin, TX. This role is ideal for a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Lead Engineer who thrives in building scalable systems, optimizing engineering workflows, and leading by example.
This person will play a key role in integrating AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) into our development processes, transforming how code is written, reviewed, and optimized using AI-assisted tools. The ideal candidate is a strong backend engineer with leadership experience, who can architect, develop, and implement best practices while mentoring a high-performing team.
Key Responsibilities
- Hands-on backend development with TypeScript (NestJS), GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and cloud services (GCP, AWS).
- Lead AI-driven engineering transformations, integrating LLMs and AI-assisted development tools into the coding and workflow process.
- Architect and scale backend services, ensuring high performance, security, and reliability.
- Optimize and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and containerized deployments (Docker, Cloud Run).
- Improve team productivity with AI-based automation, leveraging prompt engineering, automated code reviews, and AI-assisted debugging.
- Mentor and support engineers, fostering a collaborative, high-impact engineering culture.
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other technical teams to align engineering efforts with business goals.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience
- Deep expertise in backend development using TypeScript (NestJS), GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS), serverless computing, and containerized deployments.
- Experience implementing AI and LLM tools in engineering workflows (e.g., AI-assisted code generation, debugging, automation).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps best practices, Terraform, and cloud monitoring (Datadog, Statsig).
- Passion for leading by doing, mentoring engineers, and improving team efficiency with AI and automation.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, execution-driven environment, making strategic decisions while remaining hands-on.
Join our dynamic team and contribute to the creation of cutting-edge web applications that drive our business forward. Apply now to be a part of an innovative and collaborative work environment!
About Builders:
Builders leverages highly skilled distributed engineering teams with Latin America’s top software talent. Connecting top technology startups, mid-size companies and large enterprises across North America with superior tech talent needed to innovate, compete and excel in their field of business.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) StatementOur company does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.
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What We Do
Builders leverages highly skilled distributed engineering teams with Latin America’s top software talent. Connecting top startups, mid-size companies and large enterprises across North America and beyond with superior tech talent needed to innovate, compete and excel in their field of business. Our deep expertise spreads across many areas, such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, DevOps, UX/UI Designers, Product Managers, and many more.
Builders handles talent assessment, on-boarding, management, retention and continuous improvement. We provide unparalleled support, training, workshops, company events, benefits and other perks that make it fun and incredibly rewarding for everyone joining our team.
Our team has extensive experience, deep relationships, an extensive network and a growing database, which make us a valuable partner for our clients. Builders prides itself on making the perfect match as easy as possible. All while letting you get back to building.
