Technology Lead

Location: This position is remote within Colombia

About Intelligent Experiences.

The future is Intelligent Experiences (IX). Done well, with humans centered in the work, IX drives sustainable growth for businesses and brands, inspiring adoption and cutting through the boring that plagues the industry.

For 25 years, Huge has helped clients unlock new technologies and make experiences people love, from building user-centered digital businesses to navigating the explosion of channels to achieve unified brand experiences.

As a design & innovation company, Huge is pioneering the use of generative AI in Intelligent Experiences to transform how brands connect with their customers, creating deeply personalized, anticipatory services that not only captivate but also foster loyalty and increase the value brands bring customers and consumers.

About Technology

At Huge, it’s not only about depth in technology, but ongoing incubation and experimentation as to how to apply technology. Every technologist at Huge helps bring ideas to reality.

What's the role?

Huge is seeking a highly experienced Senior Technical Lead to drive the evolution and innovation of a critical, established platform. In this role leading a talented engineering team to deliver robust, scalable, and secure solutions. Your focus will be on fostering a culture of technical excellence, driving strategic architectural decisions, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. You will leverage your deep technical expertise to guide the team through complex challenges, optimize workflows, and integrate AI/ML to find efficiencies, while maintaining the stability and security of a mature application.

What you’ll be doing

• Advocate for technical solutions that deliver measurable business value, and contribute to product roadmap planning.
• Partner closely with product managers to define technical requirements, translate product roadmaps into actionable development plans, and ensure alignment between technical implementation and product vision.
• Present project statuses, technical solutions, and progress reports to senior leadership stakeholders, demonstrating excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Make critical technical decisions, balancing innovation with stability, security, and scalability, and translate business requirements into technical strategies and solutions.
• Drive the integration and optimization of AI/ML capabilities using GCP services (AutoML, Vertex AI Studio), and ensure the platform's infrastructure is robust, scalable, cost efficient and secure.
• Lead efforts to improve maintainability, scalability, and extensibility, champion best practices in software development, security, and cloud architecture, and improve the security posture.
• Quickly identify critical capabilities, gaps, and architectural roadblocks, and communicate them to the team while providing alternate approaches.
• Create detailed architectural blueprints, diagrams, and technical documentation that articulate the proposed solutions.
• Lead and mentor technical teams throughout the development lifecycle, providing guidance on best practices, system design, and implementation strategies.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to prototype, validate, and optimize models and algorithms.
• Conduct technical reviews and evaluations of components, ensuring alignment with architectural principles and performance goals.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement initiatives within the solutions domain, staying abreast of emerging technologies and trends.
• Collaborate closely with creative teams and UI engineers to define technically efficient solutions that align with design concepts and user experience goals.

What we’d like to see

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3-5+ years leading large-scale technology engagements.
• Familiar with ML/ AI technologies such as LLMs, NLP, computer vision, etc.
• A strong track record of making sound technical decisions in challenging environments.
• Deep understanding of security best practices and experience with security audits.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically and creatively.
• A demonstrated product mindset, with the ability to translate technical outcomes into business value.
• Familiar with agile methodologies.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience leading teams leveraging Python and TypeScript for scalable and robust applications.
• Clear understanding of AI techniques such as agents, RAG, semantic routing and caching.
• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform and experience with deploying large scale applications in cloud environments.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Appreciation for design and user experience and its importance to the final delivered solution.
• Relevant certifications (e.g. GCP certifications, AI/ML/Data certifications) are a plus.
• Relevant security certifications are highly desirable (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC).

If the selected candidate holds a degree in Engineering or a related profession, they must present their professional license. To verify your degree requires this license, please visit www.copnia.gov.co and https://www.consejoprofesional.org.co/. 

About Huge

Huge is a design and technology company. We create products and experiences that grow the world’s most ambitious brands. We do this by designing experiences for people, not users, and uncovering new sources of growth by leveraging our creative talent, our proprietary platform LIVE and unlocking the advantages brought to us by emerging technologies. We believe all experiences should be intelligent, shoppable and unique to every brand.

Huge’s nearly 1,000 thinkers, tinkerers, makers and creators, have been problem-solving across North America, Europe, and Latin America for over 25 years. Interested? You’ll find more information at www.hugeinc.com.

Huge is committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or if you’re parenting the next generation of innovators, we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.

Huge is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We strongly support diversity in the workforce. We are committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process and work environment. If you are contacted for a job opportunity, please advise us of any accommodation needed to ensure you have access to a fair and equitable process. Any information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

Workers shall not be required to pay employers’ or agents’ recruitment fees or other related fees for their employment. If any such fees are found to have been paid by workers, such fees shall be repaid to the worker.

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