Technical Team Lead, .AI; Remote

We are seeking Technical Team Leads to ensure quality and delivery across our application-level products. You will guide a compact team of 3-5 engineers as they develop educational applications serving thousands of students.

• Athena: AI-generated videos and assessments that produce measurable academic results
• Teach Tap: AI that brings historical figures to life in a Tik Tok-style learning platform
• Teach Tales:
  Personalized storytelling that enhances comprehension through engaging narratives
• Trash Cat:
  Gamified learning that makes education both fun and effective

This position is a player-coach model: 50% direct contribution to building sophisticated features, 50% enabling and mentoring your team. You define quality expectations, create reusable patterns, conduct code reviews with instructional feedback, and support engineer development. Your accountability extends to team outcomes, not only your individual contributions.

Lean team structure, substantial ownership, minimal overhead. You provide technical leadership; people management is handled separately.

• Developing sophisticated features that establish technical patterns for the team
• Conducting pull request reviews with comprehensive, instructional feedback
• Mentoring engineers through pair programming and constructive feedback
• Organizing technical initiatives and decomposing project requirements
• Defining quality benchmarks and ensuring team adherence

• Handling personnel management (recruitment, termination, performance evaluations, career planning)
• Developing platform-level infrastructure components
• Spending time in excessive meeting schedules
• Designing architecture without hands‑on implementation

• At least 5 years of full-stack development experience
• At least 2 years in a lead role (reviewing others' work, mentoring engineers, establishing team practices)
• Track record of shipping SaaS products
• Experience with AI tools in development workflow
• Demonstrated ability to help other engineers improve and grow

Learn With.

AI is an edtech startup that leverages AI and subject matter experts to cultivate a new way of learning. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting‑edge data analytics and AI‑powered coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn more, learn faster, and learn better - and have fun while doing it. We are a remote‑first company that hires globally via Crossover.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

This is a full‑time (40 hours per week), long‑term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult  for more details on this topic.