Alongside

AI-Native Tech Lead | Agentic Systems

Alongside  •  $40k - $50k/yr  •  Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Remote)  •  21 hours ago
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Job Description

Alongside partners with organizations to drive digital transformation and build high-performing tech teams.

We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to build production-grade AI agents and lead delivery from architecture to deployment. You’ll code, make technical decisions, and help the team ship reliable AI-powered products quickly.

Responsibilities:

  • Build agent systems with Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Letta, Agent Zero, OpenHands, or similar open-source runtimes.
  • Use frameworks such as OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, Google ADK, Vercel AI SDK, CrewAI, AutoGen, or Mastra.
  • Develop reusable skills, tools, subagents, workflows, persistent memory, scheduled tasks, and messaging integrations.
  • Integrate OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open-weight, and local models through tool calling, structured outputs, streaming, and model routing.
  • Connect agents to systems using MCP, A2A, REST APIs, webhooks, browsers, terminals, and computer-use tools.
  • Build RAG and context systems using pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Elasticsearch, or equivalent technologies.
  • Establish evaluations and observability with LangSmith, Braintrust, Phoenix, OpenTelemetry, or provider tracing.
  • Secure autonomous agents using sandboxing, least-privilege access, approval gates, secrets management, audit trails, and prompt-injection defenses.
  • Use Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to accelerate delivery.
  • Own technical plans, production quality, latency, reliability, and model costs.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering and hands-on technical leadership experience.
  • Experience shipping AI agents or LLM applications into production.
  • Strong Python or TypeScript skills and cloud infrastructure experience.
  • Practical knowledge of agent orchestration, memory, tool use, RAG, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop design.
  • Familiarity with current trends such as self-improving agents, reusable agent skills, local-first and bring-your-own-model runtimes, multimodal and computer-use agents, MCP/A2A interoperability, durable execution, and eval-driven development.

Benefits

  • Remote work (Vietnam-based)
  • Full time: 8 hours per day, aligned with Portugal business hours (WET/WEST)
  • Freelance / Service Agreement
  • Hourly Rate: 20$-25$
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About Alongside

🚀 Alongside | Build Great Products with Great Teams

Alongside helps VC-backed start-ups, scale-ups and digital-first enterprises accelerate their roadmaps by assembling elite, time-zone-aligned teams of software engineers, product managers and UX/UI designers, often in under 14 days. Our Porto HQ sits in Europe’s fastest-growing tech hub and taps a vetted global talent pool that lets you ship faster, reduce burn and stay laser-focused on product-market fit.

Why high-growth companies choose Alongside

• Top 1 % practitioners: rigorously screened full-stack, mobile, blockchain & AI/ML engineers, plus senior designers and product leaders. 

• Flexible engagement models: scale a single specialist, an entire squad, or an autonomous build-and-ship pod.

• End-to-end ownership: discovery → design → development → launch, with weekly velocity reports and transparent KPIs.

• Cost-efficient remote talent: New York, Porto, Pune & Hanoi offices give you round-the-clock progress without Silicon-Valley price tags. 

• Proven track record: core Alongside team took Arkive, the world’s first decentralised museum, from idea to funded product. We helped Circuit Security to secure 4.5M in funding and many other startups.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Porto, PT
Year Founded
2023
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