Technical Lead – Freelance
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $84 - $103 per hour
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudGoogle Cloud Platform
About the role
- Architect the end-to-end technical solution for a new web platform featuring a RAG-based search engine.
- Design the infrastructure and system blueprint on **Google Cloud Platform (GCP)**, including **Vertex AI Search**, **Vector Search**, and supporting services.
- Define the data ingestion, embedding, and indexing strategies to ensure accurate and high-performing search capabilities.
- Establish and maintain DevOps foundations including **CI/CD pipelines**, **Cloud Build**, environment setup, cross-project **IAM**, and deployment workflows.
- Partner with the Backend Developer to ensure APIs, endpoints, and middleware effectively connect the frontend application to AI services.
- Conduct architectural reviews, provide technical mentorship, lead code reviews, and ensure engineering best practices across the team.
- Collaborate with production partners to translate technical strategy into actionable plans, estimates, and milestones.
- Diagnose and resolve technical blockers swiftly to maintain development momentum.
- Ensure security, observability, scalability, and performance are core to the system design and implementation.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including technical leadership on complex cloud-based builds.
- Deep expertise with **Google Cloud Platform**, including **Vertex AI**, **Vertex AI Search**, **Google Cloud Storage (GCS)**, **App Engine**, service accounts, IAM, and GCP networking fundamentals.
- Proven experience designing or implementing **RAG**, vector search, or AI-powered search workflows.
- Strong system design skills—capable of turning ambiguous goals into clear, actionable technical architectures.
- Proficiency with DevOps tooling, **CI/CD pipelines**, automated deployments, and modern cloud infrastructure practices.
- Ability to guide developers, review code for quality and alignment with architecture, and mentor teams toward technical excellence.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to partner cross-functionally with producers, designers, and engineers.
- Experience working with **Brightspot CMS** is a nice to have.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Google Cloud PlatformVertex AIVertex AI SearchGoogle Cloud StorageApp EngineCI/CD pipelinesDevOpsRAGvector searchsystem design
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentorshipclear communicationcollaborationproblem-solving