Team Lead Software Engineering (Agentic)
Sycle LLC
- Vancouver, BC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Languages/Frameworks: TypeScript, React/Next.js, PHP (Laravel), Node.js (Nest.js).
- AI Tooling: Windsurf, Claude 4.6+, and GPT 5.4+.
- You will split time between traditional development to meet immediate customer needs and building and refining the AI workflows and tooling. We need pragmatists who can deliver high-quality code today while helping us automate the process for tomorrow.
- Architect of Intent: Translate Product Owner requirements and Gherkin/BDD specs into technical execution plans, defining architectural patterns rather than manual logic.
- Context Stewardship: Curate the "Digital Brain" by maintaining RAG pipelines to ensure agents use modern patterns and avoid deprecated legacy code.
- Security & Ethics Auditor: Serve as the final safety gate, auditing all output (human or AI) for HIPAA compliance, logical security, and performance bottlenecks.
- Agent Teacher: When an agent makes a mistake, you "fix the agent" by updating instructions, prompts, or context rules so the error is never repeated.
- Team Orchestration: Lead a cross-functional team (e.g., 2 Frontend, 1 Backend) and oversee simultaneous deployment of multiple features by managing parallel agentic workstreams.
- Core Engineering Mastery: Strong experience with Node.js (Next.js/Nest.js) and PHP (Laravel).
- Modern Infrastructure: Proficiency with AWS, microservices, and relational databases like MySQL/Postgres.
- Agentic Proficiency: The ability to direct AI agents to generate code, tests, and documentation. This involves moving beyond basic chat to orchestrating parallel workflows, managing multi-agent chains, and setting the "rules of the road" for your team's agents to follow.
- Verification & Oversight: Experience with automated testing (e.g., Playwright) and the ability to define rigorous failure scenarios to ensure robust code before it reaches human review.
- Strategic Leadership: Ability to mentor junior devs on "Prompt Precision" and provide a "Human-in-the-Loop" audit for the team's collective agentic output.
- Accountability: A shift from "trusting your fingers" to "verifying output," taking 100% responsibility for the integrity and security of the system, regardless of how the code was generated.
- Bonus Points: You have taken courses in Agentic development and/or have done side-projects using various LLMs and associated tools.
- High Precision: Managing agents to produce first-draft code that passes the majority (80%+) of automated tests.
- Velocity: Achieving a measurable increase in feature delivery (e.g., the "2x Goal") compared to traditional manual baselines.
- System Integrity: Maintaining a 0% critical-defect rate in production while overseeing parallel workstreams.
- Comprehensive personal health plan (Medical, Dental, Vision).
- RRSP matching and Internet subsidy.
- 3+ weeks of paid time off plus paid statutory holidays.