Tech Lead (Fullstack & AI Automation)

[](https://landing.jobs/at/damia-group-portugal/tech-lead-fullstack-ai-automation#main-content) # Tech Lead (Fullstack & AI Automation) [Damia Group Portugal](https://landing.jobs/at/damia-group-portugal) Tech recruitment experts on a mission to provide the best recruitment exper [Sign up to apply](https://landing.jobs/sign-up/job-seeker?apply_for=19670) [Quick Apply](https://landing.jobs/jobs/tech-lead-fullstack-ai-automation/quick_apply) Permanent AI 5 - 10+ years of experience - Senior Requires work permit Requires you to be a citizen or have a valid work permit / visa sponsorship to work in the country in which this position is based. Language(s): Required English\| Nice to have Portuguese * * * ## Skills * * * Required: Large Language Models (LLMs) React Node.js Microsoft Azure GraphQL REST APIs Artificial Intelligence Kubernetes Nice to have: UiPath Power Platform Agile ## Description * * * Damia Group is an international tech recruitment agency with 3 decades of experience. Our arrival in Portugal, 7 years later, was set on a mission to transform IT recruitment experiences and, through them, achieve better results. We believe in long-term relationships with a transparent and relaxed mindset. In a short period, we have reached the hearts of both scale-ups and larger organisations by delivering spot-on curated candidate shortlists, increased job offer acceptance rates and shorter time-to-fill. **Damia handles direct hires on behalf of our clients.** **Who are they looking for?** Being a Tech Lead that will act as the technical anchor and team mentor for a dedicated development team, responsible for the software design, implementation, and technical excellence of our applications. This role combines hands-on development guidance with practical solution architecture, ensuring that Full Stack engineering teams build scalable, resilient, cloud-native solutions within Azure Cloud environments. The position requires a modern engineering mindset focused on delivering robust systems, promoting continuous improvement within the team, and pragmatically integrating modern automation frameworks and AI workflows into the team's software solutions **What is the challenge?** In this role, you will: - Provide strong, hands-on technical leadership to Full Stack engineering teams through: - Daily architectural guidance during sprint execution and feature implementation. - Conducting constructive code reviews and fostering a culture of engineering mentorship. - Defining and enforcing code standards, development best practices, and clean code principles. - Design and structure the software components delivered by the team, ensuring: - Clean application structure, modularity, and proper separation of concerns. - Robust API-first development and secure integration strategies. - Appropriate data modelling and persistence strategies (including relational, nonrelational, or vector databases where applicable). - Translating product features into concrete, scalable technical specifications for the development team. - Guide the team in structuring applications prepared for modern containerised environments and orchestration platforms (like Kubernetes), ensuring: - Stateless, resilient service design and proper error handling. - Familiarity with fault tolerance and graceful degradation when consuming external dependencies or AI APIs. - Promotion of maintainable, observable, and testable application patterns. - Collaboration with platform/DevOps tools to ensure smooth CI/CD pipelines and operational reliability. - Ensure the team's software applications communicate seamlessly with automation and modern workflow environments, focusing on: - Modern Workflow Automation: Building robust endpoints and integration hooks to connect software applications with n8n or similar backbones. - AI Feature Integration: Guiding developers on how to integrate LLM applications or multi-agent concepts (LangChain, LangGraph, or CrewAI) safely into the team's core products. - Ensuring clean integration boundaries, proper security, and reliable data flows ## Requirements * * * **Mandatory Experience (Hard Skills)** Full Stack Engineering Leadership: - Solid hands-on experience in modern Full Stack software engineering, covering backend development, frontend application architectures, and API-first development (REST/GraphQL). - Proven track record of guiding, mentoring, or acting as a technical reference for other developers. **Solution Architecture & Patterns:** - Practical experience in software application design, mastering modularity, asynchronous communication, data modeling, and integration patterns. Modern Automation & AI Orchestration: - Experience with or exposure to architecting patterns for modern workflow automation tools, specifically n8n (or similar advanced integration backbones). - Experience with or exposure to designing and deploying applications using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or CrewAI. - General understanding of AI infrastructure concepts (e.g., prompt chaining, stateful agent loops, or integrating AI components into standard software). Cloud & Container Awareness: - Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications leveraging Azure Cloud services. - Technical capacity to design solutions prepared to run in containerised environments and tools like Kubernetes (or equivalent orchestration/container apps). **Interpersonal Competencies (Soft Skills)** - Technical Mentorship & Pedagogical Capacity: Passion for teaching, unlocking technical blockers for developers, and elevating the technical maturity of the team. - Architectural Pragmatism: Strong judgment in balancing the "ideal architecture" with realistic business timelines and delivery constraints, always favouring simplicity and maintenance. - Systems Thinking: Ability to see how the team's code fits into the larger infrastructure, ensuring integrations are clean and dependencies are managed. - Collaboration & Communication: Clear communic