Engineering Lead | AI Startup

Location: Remote (Ireland)
Competitive Salary + Equity + Benefits

We're partnering with a well-funded Irish AI startup entering one of the most exciting stages of its journey.

Having recently secured fresh funding, the business is scaling rapidly and preparing for its next major milestone, with plans to raise a Series A over the coming year. They're already delivering AI solutions to some of the world's largest enterprise organisations and are looking for an Engineering Lead to help shape the next chapter of the company.

This is an opportunity to join while the team is still small enough for your work to have a genuine impact.

This isn't a traditional management position.

The current technical leader is wearing multiple hats across product, architecture, engineering leadership and customer delivery. They're looking for someone they trust to take ownership of the engineering team while remaining heavily involved in building the product.

You'll spend roughly half your time writing code and solving technical challenges, with the other half focused on mentoring engineers, improving engineering practices, contributing to architecture and helping the team deliver at pace.

They're equally open to speaking with:

• An experienced Engineering Lead or Tech Lead from a startup or scale-up.
• A Senior Software Engineer who's already mentoring others and is ready to step into their first leadership position.
  
  

• Lead and mentor a small engineering team.
• Support and develop junior and mid-level engineers.
• Run stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Remove blockers and keep engineering delivery moving.
• Contribute to technical architecture and solution design.
• Continue writing production code as part of the engineering team.
• Improve engineering standards, SDLC and code review processes.
• Work closely with product and technical leadership on roadmap delivery.
• Help shape how engineering scales as the company grows.
  
  

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Current technologies include:

• Python
• PHP / Laravel
• React
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Experience across every technology isn't essential.

They're looking for engineers with broad technical knowledge, strong problem-solving skills and experience delivering products within startup or scale-up environments.

You'll likely bring:

• Experience as either a Senior Software Engineer ready to step up or an existing Engineering Lead / Tech Lead within a start up or scale up in Ireland.
• Strong backend engineering experience.
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers.
• Exposure to any cloud platform.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Confidence making technical decisions with limited direction.
• A product mindset and genuine ownership mentality.
  
  

This is one of those opportunities where timing really matters.

You'll be joining:

• A recently funded Irish AI company.
• A business preparing for significant growth and a future Series A.
• A genuinely collaborative engineering culture with very little bureaucracy.
• A product solving complex real-world problems using AI.

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• A team where your technical decisions will directly influence the future of the platform.
• An environment where ideas are encouraged and ownership is expected.

If you're someone who enjoys building products, solving difficult engineering problems and helping grow teams, you'll feel right at home.

• Competitive Salary
• Equity
• Healthcare
• Pension
• Home office budget
• Fully remote within Ireland
• Flexible working environment
• Opportunity to join at a pivotal stage of growth
  
  

The process has been designed to move quickly:

If you're curious to learn more, apply today or reach out for a confidential conversation.

To apply for this role, submit your CV via the application form provided. Alternatively, to speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please contact Jack Tyrrell via j.tyrrell@mcsgroup.jobs

If you have a disability which means you require assistance at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us directly to discuss. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity to all.

Please note, we are receiving an exceptionally high number of applications at present and will be unable to shortlist candidates who are not meeting the specific requirements for this role. Due to the high volume of applications, we may be unable to provide individual feedback. We thank you in advance for your understanding.