Tech Lead Manager

Summary

Join QuintoAndar's Data Science and Machine Learning team in Lisbon as a Tech Lead Manager. Lead a small team of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers, focusing on building platform solutions for conversational chatbots. You will balance hands-on technical work with managerial responsibilities, shaping the technical direction of products and mentoring team members. The role requires expertise in AI/ML, backend systems, and deploying machine learning systems to production. The company offers a remote-first work environment in Portugal with a vibrant office in Lisbon's historic center. QuintoAndar provides competitive benefits, including a meal allowance, health insurance, work-from-home allowance, transportation allowance, generous vacation time, and extended parental leave.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of the engineering challenges of deploying machine learning systems to production
• Solid understanding of systems, software and data engineering best practices
• Proficiency with cloud-based services
• Proficiency in Python or another major programming language
• Someone up-to-date with recent advances in Machine Learning Engineering, and willing to share his/her knowledge with the other members of the Data and AI Chapter
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills
• Have experience building backend systems, event driven architectures and rest/http applications
• Have experience building solutions with LLMs (RAG, fine-tuning)
• Have experience building AI agents and AI powered applications, familiarity with agentic frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI)
• Experience leading teams and managing careers

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to build solutions based on AI/ML
• Be a technical reference to the team, including doing hands-on engineering work
• Shaping the technical direction of our products, translating business requirements into solutions
• Discuss business requirements with the Product Manager and other stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• General understanding of machine learning concepts: regression and classification, clustering, neural networks, feature selection, cross-validation, curse of dimensionality, bias-variance tradeoff, model explainability, etc
• Have experience working at fast-growing startups
• Have track record implementing scalable and durable solutions
• Have solid experience with Deep Learning

Benefits

• Meal allowance: 7,63 EUR/day
• Health insurance (Multicare), w/ co-part (in Portugal)
• Work from-home allowance: 40,00 EUR/month
• Transportation: 40,00 EUR/month
• 25 vacation days per year
• Labor accident insurance
• Life insurance
• Child care allowance (children up to 5 years old): 100,00 EUR/month
• Maternity and paternity leave extended to 180 and 30 days, respectively
• 10 consecutive extra days of paid recess at the end of the year, not discounted on your vacation