Tech Lead - AI & Innovation

About the role

Vicoland is seeking a Tech Lead to drive the technical direction and architecture of our AI-driven SaaS platform. You will lead and grow an engineering team while remaining hands-on with development, leveraging AI to ship high-quality software. This role involves translating business needs into technical roadmaps and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and enable a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Own the technical direction and architecture across the full stack to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Contribute features end-to-end by coding, building prototypes, and utilizing AI tools.
• Translate business requirements into technical roadmaps in collaboration with product and business stakeholders.
• Establish engineering standards and quality gates for design, development, QA, and deployment.
• Implement best practices for AI development, including model selection, evaluation, and observability.
• Act as a strategic partner to leadership regarding technology strategy and build-vs-buy decisions.

Required skills

• People leadership
• Full-stack development
• Software architecture
• AI agents
• LLMs
• RAG pipelines
• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• Context engineering
• Prompting
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• Observability

Nice to have

• Startup scaling
• SaaS integration
• Vector databases
• Orchestration frameworks
• Distributed teams

Qualifications

• Full professional proficiency in English at C2 level
• Full professional proficiency in German at C1 level

Benefits

• International team
• Flexible work hours
• ESOP participation

About the Company

Vicoland has invented Virtual Companies (Vicos) as a new type of supplier that is more efficient than traditional professional services firms. Our AI-driven SaaS platform provides the digital infrastructure for freelancers, SMEs, and AI agents to organize and compete for large enterprise projects.