emerchantpay
AI Tech Lead
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Bulgaria only
Employer listed it 5 months ago · Added today
Been open since 5 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Bulgaria only
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Other
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $175k–$255k a year, a typical range taken from 192 lead-level other roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Bulgaria. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Sofia, Bulgaria, Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria, Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Bulgaria
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
emerchantpay is a leading global payment service provider and acquirer for online, mobile, in-store and over the phone payments. Our global payments solution is available through a simple integration, offering a diverse range of features, including global acquiring, global and local payment methods, advanced fraud management and performance optimisation. We empower businesses to design seamless and engaging payment experiences for their consumers.
We are looking for an AI Tech Lead to lead the design, engineering, and rollout of AI-powered solutions, with a strong focus on AI engineering, AI agents, agentic workflows, applied machine learning, and production-grade AI systems.
The role combines hands-on technical leadership, architecture, delivery ownership, and people leadership. The AI Tech Lead will guide a small but growing AI engineering team and work closely with product, engineering, data, security, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to turn AI opportunities into reliable production systems.
The role will have a strong focus on AWS , including advanced AI services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon SageMaker, and other AWS AI/ML and cloud-native services.
Responsibilities
Lead the technical design, architecture, and delivery of AI solutions, with a focus on AI agents, agentic workflows, automation, and AI-assisted business processes.
Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle of AI products: discovery, prototyping, evaluation, production implementation, rollout, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Lead and manage an AI engineering team, including technical direction, task breakdown, mentoring, code reviews, delivery planning, and engineering quality.
Design and implement solutions using AWS AI/ML services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon SageMaker, and other AWS services for model hosting, orchestration, data processing, monitoring, and security.
Build and integrate AI applications using technologies such as Python (FastAPI/Flask/Django) or equivalent, along with relevant AI/ML frameworks.
Design agentic systems that can interact with APIs, internal platforms, business workflows, knowledge bases, and external tools in a safe, observable, and controlled way.
Define and implement best practices for LLM application development, including prompt engineering, RAG, tool use, function calling, memory, evaluation, guardrails, and hallucination mitigation.
Drive improvements in internal engineering practices around AI-assisted development, engineering productivity, AI efficiency, automation, and responsible use of AI tools across software delivery.
Work with stakeholders to identify high-value AI use cases, assess feasibility, define success metrics, and prioritize delivery.
Establish engineering standards for AI systems, including code quality, testing, observability, reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability.
Drive MLOps and LLMOps practices, including model lifecycle management, deployment pipelines, monitoring, evaluation, drift detection, and rollback strategies.
Collaborate with DevOps, cloud, security, and platform teams to ensure AI systems are production-ready, compliant, cost-efficient, and operationally stable.
Support rollout and adoption of AI solutions across the organization, including documentation, training, stakeholder communication, and production support.
Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, models, and vendors, and provide pragmatic recommendations on adoption.
Ensure AI solutions follow responsible AI principles, including data privacy, access control, auditability, fairness, explainability where applicable, and secure handling of sensitive data.
Requirements
Minimum 10 years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, machine learning engineering, AI engineering, or related technical roles.
At least 3 years of experience leading or managing engineering teams, including technical leadership, mentoring, planning, and delivery ownership.
Strong hands-on experience building production-grade AI, ML, and data-driven systems.
Requirements
- ·Minimum 10 years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, machine learning engineering, AI engineering, or related technical roles.
- ·At least 3 years of experience leading or managing engineering teams, including technical leadership, mentoring, planning, and delivery ownership.
- ·Strong hands-on experience building production-grade AI, ML, and data-driven systems.
- ·Practical experience with AI agents, agentic workflows, LLM-based applications, workflow automation, tool-calling architectures, and AI orchestration patterns.
- ·Strong knowledge of AWS, including practical experience with cloud-native architectures, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon SageMaker, and related AWS AI/ML services (the more, the better).
Benefits
- ·Fast-growing payment company;
- ·Excellent working conditions, casual atmosphere, and state-of-the-art hardware;
- ·Modern, challenging, constantly growing business;
- ·Professional development – books, trainings, certifications, etc.;
- ·Team buildings and fun activities;
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at emerchantpay, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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