Engineering Tech Lead

TTEC Digital

$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 9+ years of hands-on experience with high proficiency in Go and familiarity with 3+ programming languages.
  • Proven experience leading a team and delivering complex real-time or platform products end-to-end.
  • Expertise in event-driven systems, particularly with NATS, Kafka, or similar architectures.
  • Strong background in AI/ML, specifically with hands-on experience with LLM APIs and model serving.
  • Experience with efficient development practices - able to produce clean, functional code quickly.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a developer team while also contributing code as a player-coach.
  • Develop Go services on an event bus for high-throughput, low-latency applications.
  • Build AI/ML services and pipelines or connector frameworks for integrations with CCaaS/CRM systems.
  • Manage the delivery timelines for your team's services and ensure company objectives are met.
  • Conduct weekly demos of working software and facilitate rapid iteration and feedback.

Benefits

  • Fully remote working environment.
  • Rapid product iteration cycle with one-week sprints.
  • Opportunity to influence and shape the trajectory of company products at scale.
  • Access to cutting-edge AI technology and a dynamic startup-like atmosphere within a larger organization.
Full Job Description
Engineering Technical Lead to join our team. This role is a full-time and fully remote opportunity!

The work:

We're an innovation group inside TTEC (NASDAQ: TTEC), building the next generation of AI CX tools - automated QA, conversational analytics, knowledge assist, and agentic automation - for the world's biggest brands and the millions of customers they serve. We move like an early-stage startup, backed by the scale, distribution, and enterprise client base of a company that's been obsessed with customer experience since 1982.

This is the rare seat where getting in early actually matters at scale. TTEC is a public company at an AI inflection point. Ship the right products into thousands of live enterprise deployments and you don't just move a metric - you move the trajectory of the company and the value of the stock. The leverage is real, and the work compounds.

Who we hire - the DNA

  • Self-starters and do-ers with grit - hackers in the best sense, with a startup mentality and a show-me bias: working software over slides, prototypes over proposals.


  • Want to learn, love new technology. This platform is built on the latest technology, and that technology changes and advances monthly. You adapt to change quickly - new tools, new models, new priorities - without drama.


  • Master debuggers and problem solvers. You love solving complex problems, you think outside the box, and you multitask across domains without losing the thread.


  • AI-native. You work with AI on all levels - you understand the technology around you (LLMs, SLMs, RAG, knowledge graphs, agents, training, eval) and you use AI tools daily to exponentially increase your velocity.


  • Distributed-systems literate. High-efficiency, event-driven, low-latency systems are our world; you understand what that demands.


  • Innovators who ship. You demonstrate ideas easily, fail fast, and move forward. You make committed timelines and hit them.


  • You consider yourself exceptional - and you like winning. So do we.


No one will have everything in this description. We're looking for well-rounded, smart people who move fast.

What You Will Do:

The role:
  • Lead developer role, three specialization tracks. We build voice, desktop, intelligence, and AI combined into a single real-time platform - event-driven, high-throughput, low-latency.
  • A tech lead here is a player-coach - you write the hardest code in the squad, and you lead it.
  • You'll build Go services on the event bus, AI/ML services and pipelines, or connector frameworks to CCaaS/CRM/telephony - most engineers here end up touching more than one.
  • This is a startup environment on a fast train: 1-week sprints, Friday demos, fail fast and move forward.


What you'll own:
  • Services on the event bus (NATS-class) • high-throughput transactional data models and WebSocket backends
  • Your track's slice - AI/ML pipelines (RAG, streaming inference, eval) or connectors (CCaaS/CTI, CRM, SIP/RTP) or core platform services
  • Your latency budget • your committed timelines.


Who you are:
  • You consider yourself exceptional - and can show it.
  • Self-starter, hacker, grit, loves to learn, loves winning.
  • You demonstrate ideas easily: a working prototype beats a slide deck every time.
  • You understand requirements and stay locked on them - we work with all-new technology constantly, and you don't get wrapped around shiny objects
  • You evaluate fast, adopt what earns it, and keep shipping. Fail fast, move forward. A team player who makes and hits committed timelines.


What You Will Bring:

  • 9+ years hands-on; same language bar (HIGH++ Go, 3+ languages) and same AI, debugging, and velocity bar as the Senior Software Engineer role - you must out-code the squad you lead.


  • Has led a squad and shipped a hard real-time or platform product end-to-end, on committed timelines.


  • Sets patterns by shipping them; owns the code-review bar and raises the engineers around you.


  • Owns delivery - moves blocked work, doesn't just report it. Show-me mentality: your squad demos working software every Friday.


  • Keeps the respect of senior engineers through technical credibility, and manages change without drama - priorities and tech will shift under you.
  • Event-driven systems in production (NATS / Kafka / Redpanda-class) - you think in pub/sub. Heavy WebSocket, real-time, low-latency.
  • Mid-tier or better hands-on AI experience in the code and product - you've built with LLM APIs, embeddings, RAG, or model serving, not just chatted with a bot. And you use AI-assisted development daily to multiply your velocity.
  • Strong ++ for data graph/knowledge graph background, or hands-on AI/ML model experience (training, serving, eval).
  • Efficiency in development - we deal in speed. You ship clean code fast, unblock yourself, and your estimates hold.
  • A master debugger - you read unfamiliar code, a stack trace, or a flaky partner API and see it; you know where the breakpoint goes.
  • GCP preferred. Voice (SIP/RTP/SIPREC), CCaaS/CTI, or desktop-adjacent experience a strong plus depending on track.
  • Track emphasis:

    1. Backend/Platform: data models, event bus, plugin runtime.
    2. AI/ML: deeper Python, production GenAI/NLU, streaming inference, eval frameworks, RAG.
    3. Integrations: CCaaS/CTI platforms (Genesys, Amazon Connect, NICE, Five9), CRM connectors, SIP/RTP, fault-tolerant connector design.


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