AI Technical Lead

Description

Technical Lead/Architect

Remote - United States

About the Role

We're a small team within Blackboard building a new AI-native product. This is not a feature team, and it's not an enhancement to an existing product — we're building something new.

We use Claude Code, Cursor, and AI-assisted tooling to generatethe majority of our code. Our engineers are architects, reviewers, and product thinkers — people who direct AI coding agents effectively rather than writing every line by hand.

As Technical Lead, you set this culture. You will establish the norms, the workflows, and the standards for how AI-native development actually works at scale on a small team. The person we're looking for is excited by this model, not threatened by it.

You are the technical leader. You will design, architect, and build the core system — a stateful, multi-layer architecture spanning data ingestion, decision logic, and AI-powered delivery — ...