full-stack and AI engineering manager for a travel loyalty product

CleverLabs is a software development company specializing in building web and API applications. Since 2015, it has developed products from scratch as part of distributed product teams on long-term projects. Its clients are based in the USA, the UK, the EU, and the MENA region.

• Lead the frontend, backend, and AI/ML team; own day-to-day delivery and code quality while building alongside the team
• Translate product priorities into scoped tasks, define acceptance criteria, assign ownership, and coordinate dependencies
• Drive work from planning through implementation, testing, and release; remove blockers and communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs to the founders and CTO
• Assess the existing MVP and agree with the CTO on what to retain, refactor, or rebuild, balancing product delivery with reliability and maintainability
• Implement complex features, resolve technical blockers, and build critical API integrations alongside the team
• Review code and architecture across the stack; verify that frontend, backend, and AI/ML components work together and meet the agreed quality bar
• Validate AI-generated code and AI-powered features through review, testing, and evaluation; keep deterministic calculations and business rules reliable
• Identify required API integrations and services, evaluate build-versus-buy options, and coordinate provider requirements
• Establish practical code review, testing, CI/CD, release, monitoring, and incident-handling practices for a small team
• Coach engineers and interns, give actionable feedback, and help the team improve technical judgment and delivery ownership
• Protect sensitive user data, enforce appropriate access controls, and support partner security reviews and the path toward SOC 2

• 8+ Years building and operating production software, including responsibility for leading engineers and delivering a product or substantial product area
• Experience as a hands-on Tech Lead, Engineering Lead, or Engineering Manager, combining recent coding work with team leadership and delivery ownership
• Experience coordinating frontend and backend work, making architecture decisions, reviewing code, and resolving integration and release issues
• Strong hands-on development skills in Python or TypeScript, with the ability to understand, review, and guide implementation across a full-stack system
• Experience taking an early product to real users or bringing a fast-built MVP to a reliable production standard
• Ability to break ambiguous goals into implementable tasks, set priorities with stakeholders, manage dependencies, and track delivery risks
• Production API integration experience, including validation, retries, idempotency, failure handling, and data consistency
• Practical understanding of LLM integrations, tool calling, structured outputs, and evaluation, and the judgment to distinguish model reasoning from deterministic business logic
• Experience mentoring engineers and establishing effective testing, code review, and release practices
• Sound security judgment when working with sensitive personal or financial data
• English at C1 or higher and clear communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Backend expertise in Python or TypeScript; current backend implementation and service boundaries will be clarified with the CTO during technical discussions
• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript, including architecture, integration, and code review
• Data experience with PostgreSQL, relational modeling, data ingestion, background jobs, and queues
• Integration experience with third-party APIs, OAuth, provider adapters, and reliable end-to-end workflows
• Applied AI experience with LLM tool calling, structured outputs, evaluations, and verification of AI-assisted implementation
• Будет плюсом: leading a small startup engineering team across frontend, backend, and AI/ML; fintech, travel, loyalty, payments, or account aggregation experience, including providers such as Plaid or MX; SOC 2 preparation, enterprise security reviews, or technical due diligence during fundraising; optimization, graph search, constraint solving, or rules engines; leading distributed teams, including contractors and interns

• Full-time remote engagement with reliable overlap with US Eastern working hours
• The client expects high availability for urgent product issues. Working hours, response expectations, and any out-of-hours support arrangements must be clarified before the engagement starts
• Start date, compensation, and initial engagement duration are to be agreed; the client is interested in continuity and a longer-term collaboration
• MacBook Pro work equipment
• Individual English lessons
• Coverage of sports and wellness expenses
• Social health benefits
• Gifts for holidays and special events
• Professional training, conference participation, internal meetups, and seminars