The Role
Lead design, build, and delivery of production AI/GenAI solutions (LLMs, RAG, agentic AI). Own architecture, development, deployment, and team mentorship. Engage clients for discovery, pre-sales, and technical leadership. Build full-stack applications with JS/TS, React, Node/Java/Python, integrate cloud AI services and vector databases, and maintain code quality, performance, and CI/CD.
Summary Generated by Built In
Team Lead / Client-Facing
Position Overview
Key Responsibilities
Engineering & AI Delivery
Team Leadership
Client Engagement & Sales Engineering
Continuous Improvement
Requirements
We Are Looking For Someone Who
What We Offer
Position Overview
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong hands-on experience in AI/GenAI to join our team and build innovative, production-ready AI solutions.
This role goes beyond writing code. You will lead technical conversations with clients, drive solution discovery, guide a small engineering team, and take ownership of delivery.
We are looking for someone who combines strong software engineering and AI expertise with leadership, business understanding, and strong client-facing communication.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering & AI Delivery
- Design, develop, and maintain AI-powered solutions using LLMs, GenAI, RAG, and Agentic AI.
- Take end-to-end ownership of projects, from requirements and architecture through development and deployment.
- Build scalable applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, Java, or Python.
- Evaluate and integrate AI models, frameworks, APIs, and cloud AI services.
- Design AI agents, workflows, integrations, and intelligent automation.
- Make independent technical decisions and proactively solve complex problems.
- Maintain high standards of code quality, security, performance, and AI reliability.
Team Leadership
- Lead and mentor a small team of engineers and provide technical direction.
- Review code and guide architectural and technical decisions.
- Support sprint planning, delivery decisions, and technical retrospectives.
- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and the development of engineers.
- Set strong engineering and AI delivery standards within the team.
Client Engagement & Sales Engineering
- Lead client discovery calls, technical discussions, solution presentations, and demos.
- Translate business challenges into practical technical and AI solutions.
- Act as a key technical point of contact for clients and stakeholders.
- Support pre-sales, scoping, proposals, and solution design.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Build strong client relationships and identify opportunities for future solutions and growth.
Continuous Improvement
- Stay current with emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities to apply them.
- Introduce relevant tools, frameworks, and best practices to the team and client projects.
- 7+ years of software development experience, including senior or lead-level experience.
- Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers.
- Strong hands-on experience building AI/GenAI solutions in real-world projects.
- Solid understanding of LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, embeddings, vector databases, and AI integrations.
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with React.js.
- Strong backend experience with Node.js, Java, Python, or similar technologies.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Good understanding of software architecture, microservices, APIs, DevOps, and CI/CD.
- Previous client-facing and/or pre-sales experience.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Comfortable communicating in English with international clients, both verbally and in writing.
We Are Looking For Someone Who
- Takes full ownership and works independently with minimal supervision.
- Can turn a business problem into a practical AI and technical solution.
- Is confident and credible when working directly with clients and stakeholders.
- Has a strong business mindset and can contribute to pre-sales and solution discussions.
- Can lead a small team through technical credibility, clarity, and ownership.
- Is proactive, curious, and continuously exploring new AI technologies.
- Can balance AI expertise, software engineering, leadership, and business needs.
- Takes responsibility for outcomes, not just assigned tasks.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to work on real-world AI and GenAI projects with international clients.
- A young, diverse, and collaborative team.
- Challenging projects using modern technologies.
- Strong opportunities for technical and professional growth.
- A role with significant ownership over technology, delivery, team, and client relationships.
- Opportunity to grow toward broader Technical Lead, AI Architect, or Account Leadership responsibilities.
- Team-building activities and a positive team environment.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of software development experience
- Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers
- Strong hands-on experience building AI/GenAI solutions in real-world projects
- Solid understanding of LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, embeddings, vector databases, and AI integrations
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with React.js
- Backend experience with Node.js, Java, or Python
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Good understanding of software architecture, microservices, APIs, DevOps, and CI/CD
- Previous client-facing and/or pre-sales experience
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills (English proficiency)
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The Company
What We Do
Softup Technologies is an software development company based in Munich, Germany and in Tirana, Albania. The firm provides software development services for startups as well as SMEs that are looking to build or scale their teams. In less than two years, we have proudly served more than 15 clients, with their innovative projects in different industries. We stand for the highest quality and dedication, without breaking your bank. Within the next decade we will focus on the following: 1. Provide services with the most advanced technology and stack 2. Offer value added services to cover our client needs 3. Create some of the most innovative products 4. Build teams of startups and SMEs. Softup covers software development services known as "Full-Stack", which means: Front-End development: the presentation layer of an application. Back-End development: where the data is saved and where the algorithms guiding the data are managed. Value Added Services: UX/UI, design, QA, Infrastructure setup etc.
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