KIS Solutions

Tech Lead (AI Chatbot & Agent Systems)

KIS Solutions  •  Remote  •  2 months ago
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Job Description


This is a remote position.


We are looking for a highly capable Tech Lead to own the technical direction, delivery, and evolution of an AI-powered chatbot product.

This role combines AI system design, technical leadership, people management, and product collaboration.

The product heavily relies on LLM integrations and agent-based architectures, requiring continuous experimentation with new techniques in order to improve quality, reliability, and user experience.

The ideal candidate is comfortable operating in environments with evolving requirements and is able to transform ambiguous product needs into structured technical solutions.

This is a highly hands-on role requiring strong autonomy and ownership mindset.


Job Activities


Lead the design and evolution of LLM-powered chatbot architectures, including agent-based workflows, tool integrations, and context/memory strategies, ensuring high-quality, reliable, and cost-efficient AI systems.


Define technical direction and system architecture, promoting scalability, maintainability, and engineering best practices, while proactively identifying and mitigating risks.


Own delivery execution by structuring complex initiatives, aligning timelines, and coordinating engineering efforts to ensure consistent progress in dynamic environments.


Mentor and support engineers, providing technical guidance, unblocking challenges, and fostering a strong, high-performing engineering culture.


Collaborate closely with stakeholders to translate business needs into effective AI solutions, contributing to product roadmap, prioritization, and continuous improvement of user experience.


Drive innovation by exploring and validating new approaches in agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and AI system optimization, continuously improving performance, reliability, and efficiency.



Requirements


  • Strong experience building LLM-powered applications, including agent-based workflows, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, and tool/function calling. Solid understanding of improving reliability, evaluating outputs, and optimizing AI system quality.

  • Proficiency with frameworks such as LangChain and (preferably) LangGraph.

  • Strong background in software engineering as a Tech Lead or Senior Engineer, with the ability to design scalable systems from scratch, including APIs and backend architectures.

  • Proven leadership skills, including mentoring engineers, guiding technical decisions, and structuring work in ambiguous environments.

  • Experience owning end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives, with the ability to break down problems, prioritize effectively, and ensure consistent execution.

  • Strong product mindset, able to identify gaps, propose structured solutions, and make decisions with incomplete information.

  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex AI systems and align technical decisions with business goals


Nice to Have



  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) to improve productivity.

  • Familiarity with advanced AI topics such as evaluation frameworks, guardrails, cost-performance optimization, latency reduction, and long-term memory strategies.
KIS Solutions

About KIS Solutions

Too often corporate IT teams and business counterparts are at odds. This is in large part because technologists too often focus on the technology solution itself rather than the underlying business problem. At KIS solutions we believe that technology is a tool to solve business problems. We focus on the business problem and operational processes which our solutions support.

When building technology systems, the most challenging part of the development process is often deciding “what to build” not “how to build it”. It is sadly true however that many corporate IT teams spend so much their time focusing on the “how” rather than the “what”. Once you have answered the challenging questions around “what to build”, the rest falls into place. Building the system should be simple!

Founder Benjamin Quintana is an IT professional and entrepreneur with nearly 20 years of experience delivering impactful solutions across a broad range of industries. Ben has extensive experience with customer data analytics, data cleansing, customer identification, customer preference management, call center and logistical systems. He also has deep industry expertise in loyalty marketing applications and was directly responsible for the infrastructure of the loyalty program of a leading hotel group.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Bellingham, WA
Year Founded
2012
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