Tech Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical direction, architecture, and quality of delivery within your area of expertise.

• Regularly engage in writing production code, dedicating about 40–60% of your time to hands-on work.

• Lead and mentor a team of 3-4 engineers, with plans to expand the team as needed.

• Collaborate with the PM, CPO, and CTO to translate product objectives into clear engineering plans.

• Make practical technical decisions for a high-trust health product in its early stages.

• Take ownership of quality by ensuring tests, observability, performance, security, and production reliability.

• Contribute to the development of systems that responsibly manage sensitive mental health data.

• Facilitate engineering rituals including planning, estimations, retrospectives, design reviews, and ADRs.

• Participate in the hiring and onboarding process.

• Work alongside AI and clinical teams to safely integrate LLM features into user-facing workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of commercial software engineering experience.

• At least 1.5 years in a Tech Lead, Team Lead, Staff Engineer, or Senior Engineer role with leadership responsibilities.

• Strong hands-on skills in at least one of the following: Python backend, Python AI services, native iOS, or Kotlin Multiplatform mobile.

• Experience in building SaaS, mobile, consumer health, or other products with actual users.

• A strong ownership mentality, from backlog breakdown to deployment, monitoring, and support.

• Ability to navigate early-stage ambiguity, make trade-offs, and act swiftly without compromising quality.

• Solid understanding of architectural fundamentals, including APIs, databases, queues, integrations, and reliability patterns.

• Proficient with Docker, CI/CD, cloud deployments, and production operations.

• Familiarity with security, privacy, and handling of sensitive data, or a strong willingness to learn quickly.

• Product-oriented mindset: you focus not only on how the system operates but also on its significance to users.

• Proficient in English at an Intermediate level or higher for documentation and communication within a distributed team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for future equity and option benefits.

• High levels of ownership, minimal bureaucracy, and direct access to leadership.

• Join at an early stage to influence architecture, product direction, and engineering culture.

• Be part of a small, highly capable technical team led by an experienced CTO.

• No legacy systems and no cumbersome technology stacks – we make intentional technical decisions.

• Work at the crossroads of AI, mental health, consumer products, and clinical support.