Technical Engineering Leader

Summary

Join Upwork, the world’s work marketplace, as a Technical Engineering Leader, Core Platforms! Drive innovation and lead a high-performing engineering team, shaping the future of our platform. You will collaborate with various teams to build and launch transformative solutions, leveraging your full-stack development expertise and AI/ML knowledge. This role requires proven leadership experience, a strong background in frontend technologies, and a passion for product innovation. You will report directly to the Senior Director of Engineering and contribute to a remote-first organization with a vibrant culture and exceptional benefits.

Requirements

• Proven expertise in full-stack development with deep specialization in frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Angular, or Vue.js)
• Experience leading engineering teams of 10+ people, with a focus on mentorship, collaboration, and technical leadership
• A track record of driving product innovation and successfully transforming complex ideas into scalable solutions
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Hands-on experience applying AI/Gen AI concepts, integrating ML models into applications, and working with LLMs

Responsibilities

• Leverage your frontend expertise (React, Angular, or Vue.js) and robust backend knowledge to build and maintain scalable, high-performance services
• Design resilient, cloud-native architectures, including microservices and data pipelines, for high availability and scalability using AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Drive product transformation by identifying opportunities for innovation, creating prototypes, and iterating quickly toward customer-ready solutions
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for model training, deployment, monitoring, and versioning, ensuring seamless production rollouts and model observability
• Collaborate with ML experts to embed AI/Gen AI capabilities, including LLMs, into our products to enhance intelligence and user value
• Stay ahead of emerging AI/ML trends (e.g., prompt engineering, transformer architectures) and promote continuous learning within the team
• Build and lead a high-performing technical team, fostering collaboration, mentorship, and engineering excellence
• Work closely with product, data science, design, and ML teams to deliver features based on A/B testing, user feedback, and analytics

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with agentic platforms

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical insurance coverage for both you and your family
• Unlimited paid time off
• A 401(k) plan with matching contributions
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• An Employee Stock Purchase Plan