Technical Lead

Remote position - From Argentina or Uruguay
Ryz Labs is looking for a Technical Lead to join our client's small, fast-moving team. You will work as a hands-on engineering leader responsible for driving technical execution in an AI-forward startup environment. This role blends deep individual contribution with leadership, ownership, and decision-making. With a small engineering team, the Technical Lead plays a critical role in shaping the product, defining technical direction, and building scalable systems from the ground up.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary technical owner for core product architecture and implementation - Write production-ready code and remain deeply involved in day-to-day development - Lead technical decision-making with a focus on speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability - Collaborate closely with founders, product, and design to turn ideas into shipped features - Mentor and support a small engineering team through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance - Establish lightweight but effective engineering processes suited for a startup environment - Integrate and scale AI/ML capabilities within the product where they provide clear value - Identify technical risks, manage trade-offs, and make pragmatic decisions under uncertainty - Own technical quality across the stack, including testing, performance, and reliability-   Qualifications:
- Strong experience as a senior full stack software engineer in a startup or fast-paced environment - Proven ability to lead technical projects while remaining hands-on - Experience designing and building systems from early-stage to production - Familiarity with AI/ML concepts, tools, or AI-powered products - Ability to work independently, take ownership, and operate with minimal structure - Experience mentoring engineers and leading by example - Strong problem-solving skills and a bias toward execution - Clear communication skills and comfort working directly with non-technical stakeholders
About RYZ Labs:
RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.
Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.
At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.
Our values and what to expect:
- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer. - Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated. - Ownership -  step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility.  - Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone that interacts with RYZ with respect. - Frugality - being frugal and cost conscious helps us do more with less. - Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way.  - Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, our expectations. Status quo is not good enough and never should be.

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