Technical Director (Temp to Hire)

What You’ll Do

• Own and evolve the technical vision, building on an existing GCP architecture (Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud SQL) and guiding integration with a modern Angular-based SPA
• Lead architectural decision‑making across the stack, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability of a real‑time, stateful system
• Drive delivery health by evaluating feasibility, identifying risks early, and shaping scope to support sustainable execution
• Mentor and unblock a senior, multi‑disciplinary engineering team; actively participate in sprint planning, standups, retros, and architectural reviews
• Uphold code quality across backend and frontend systems, including state management, rendering performance, and accessibility standards
• Act as the technical bridge across Engineering, Design, Strategy, and Production—translating AI capabilities into actionable product and UX decisions
• Partner with clients and external teams as a senior technical advisor, clearly communicating complex systems and influencing direction
• Collaborate closely with the Executive Technical Director to ensure strong alignment across technical strategy and client partnership
• Establish best practices for AI‑augmented engineering, guiding the use of tools like Gemini, Cursor, or Claude Code to accelerate development responsibly
• Apply deep expertise across Full‑stack development, Systems Architecture, and GCP to scale a complex, distributed system

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience operating as a Technical Director, Principal Engineer, or Architect leading complex, multi‑disciplinary teams
• Deep full‑stack fluency, with the ability to guide frontend architecture (TypeScript, Angular/React/Vue) and backend systems (Python, async processing, distributed services)
• Strong expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, with the ability to contribute across the stack when needed
• Advanced experience architecting and deploying systems on GCP, including containerized microservices, database design (SQL/NoSQL), and DevOps/IaC practices (Terraform)
• Experience bringing generative AI systems into production, with an understanding of latency, orchestration, and multi‑agent architectures
• Solid foundation in security, deployment, monitoring, and systems operations at scale
• Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic decision‑making to keep teams moving efficiently
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non‑technical stakeholders and guide cross‑functional collaboration
• Experience working within delivery frameworks, maintaining visibility into timelines, budgets, staffing, and technical risk
• Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks such as Angular (preferred), React, or Vue, with a strong grasp of complex state management
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and frontend performance considerations
• Familiarity with generative AI technologies (LLMs, agentic systems) and modern AI‑augmented engineering workflows
• A collaborative, low‑ego leadership style with the ability to partner across disciplines and lead through ambiguity

Pay Range

The expected contract pay range for this role is $113-130 per hour (on a W-2). The expected full time pay range for this position is $150,000 – $180,000. Both contract and full time compensation is determined by location, experience, and skillset. We have three regional pay ranges that are adjusted for cost of living (US1 +15%, US2 +7.5%, US3 Base), learn more about our pay philosophy and cost of living adjustments.

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