Technical Lead, LearnWith.AI (Remote) - $200,000/year USD
Crossover · Spain
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- $200,000 / year
- Spain
Job highlights
- Lead a team of 3-5 engineers developing educational apps.
- Build features and mentor engineers (50/50 split).
- Define quality standards and technical patterns.
- Deliver SaaS products and integrate AI tools.
- Remote-first, full-time, long-term contractor role.
About the role
Technical Lead, LearnWith.AI (Remote)
We are seeking Technical Team Leads to ensure quality and timely delivery across our application-level products. In this role, you will guide a compact team of 3-5 engineers as they develop educational applications serving thousands of students.
Potential Products In Your Portfolio
- Athena: AI-powered video and assessment generation delivering quantifiable learning outcomes
- TeachTap: AI-driven platform bringing historical personalities to life through a TikTok-inspired educational interface
- TeachTales: Customized, engaging storytelling designed to enhance reading comprehension
- TrashCat: Game-based learning platform making education entertaining and interactive
This position combines hands-on execution with team leadership: you will spend approximately 50% of your time building sophisticated features and 50% mentoring and empowering your engineers. Your responsibilities include defining quality expectations, establishing technical patterns, conducting code reviews with an educational approach, and fostering engineer development. Team results fall under your accountability, extending beyond individual code contributions.
Lean team structure, substantial ownership, minimal administrative overhead. You provide technical leadership; personnel management is handled separately.
What You Will Be Doing
- Developing sophisticated features that establish technical patterns for your team to follow
- Conducting pull request reviews with comprehensive, instructional feedback
- Mentoring engineers through pair programming and constructive guidance
- Organizing technical workstreams and decomposing project requirements
- Defining quality benchmarks and ensuring team adherence
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Handling personnel management (recruitment, termination, performance evaluations, career development discussions)
- Contributing to platform-level infrastructure projects
- Spending time in prolonged meeting cycles
- Designing architecture in isolation without hands-on implementation
Basic Requirements
Technical Lead Key Responsibilities
- Minimum 5 years of full-stack development experience
- Minimum 2 years in a technical leadership capacity (conducting code reviews, mentoring developers, defining team practices)
- Proven history of delivering SaaS products to production
- Practical experience integrating AI tools into development processes
- Confirmed capability in supporting engineer skill development and professional growth
About LearnWith.AI
LearnWith.AI is an edtech startup that leverages AI and subject matter experts to cultivate a new way of learning. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting-edge data analytics and AI-powered coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn more, learn faster, and learn better - and have fun while doing it. We are a remote-first company that hires globally via Crossover.
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Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5738-ES-COUNTRY-TechnicalLead.005
Key skills/competency
- Technical Lead
- Full-stack development
- SaaS products
- AI integration
- Code reviews
- Mentoring
- Team leadership
- Agile methodologies
- Software development
- EdTech
Skills & topics
- Technical Lead
- Full-stack development
- SaaS
- AI integration
- Code reviews
- Mentoring
- Team leadership
- EdTech
- Remote
- Software Engineering
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your 5+ years of full-stack experience and 2+ years in technical leadership, emphasizing SaaS delivery and AI integration.
- Showcase leadership: Detail your experience in mentoring developers, conducting code reviews, and establishing team practices.
- Demonstrate impact: Quantify your achievements in delivering software products and supporting engineer growth.
- Understand the role: Emphasize your ability to balance hands-on development with team guidance in an educational technology context.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Be ready to discuss your experience with AI tools and best practices for SaaS development.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What is the work arrangement for the Technical Lead, LearnWith.AI role?
- This is a remote-first, full-time position. You will be working remotely as an independent contractor.
- What are the primary responsibilities of a Technical Lead at LearnWith.AI?
- The Technical Lead is responsible for guiding a team of 3-5 engineers, developing features, conducting code reviews, mentoring developers, and ensuring the quality and timely delivery of educational applications.
- What is the required experience for the Technical Lead, LearnWith.AI position?
- You need a minimum of 5 years of full-stack development experience and at least 2 years in a technical leadership capacity, with proven experience delivering SaaS products and integrating AI tools.
- How is compensation handled for the Technical Lead role at LearnWith.AI?
- The compensation is $100 USD per hour, equating to $200,000 USD annually for a 40-hour work week. Payments are made weekly via an independent contractor agreement with Crossover.
- Does LearnWith.AI handle personnel management for its Technical Leads?
- No, LearnWith.AI, through Crossover, separates technical leadership from personnel management. Recruitment, performance evaluations, and career development discussions are handled separately.
- What types of products will I be working on as a Technical Lead at LearnWith.AI?
- You will work on various AI-powered educational applications, including Athena (AI assessment generation), TeachTap (historical personality interface), TeachTales (storytelling for reading comprehension), and TrashCat (game-based learning).
- What is the expected time split between hands-on development and leadership for this Technical Lead role?
- The role involves approximately a 50% split between hands-on feature development and 50% dedicated to mentoring and empowering your engineering team.