Senior Tech Lead - Salary Up To $3,000 USD

We are seeking an experienced Head of Technology to take ownership of our backend platform and AI-driven product delivery. This is a senior, genuinely hands-on leadership role: expect to split your time roughly evenly between hands-on technical work - architecture, coding, code review, and building AI-powered features yourself - and people and delivery leadership.

• Spend approximately half your working time hands-on in the codebase — architecture, coding, and code review — with particular focus on priority and AI-driven features.
• Hold final accountability for technical decisions, architecture direction and code quality across the Vietnam development team. Own architecture across the backend, and set direction for the frontend at an architectural level.
• Set and enforce coding standards, branching strategy, technical processes and review practices — across backend and frontend, working through and alongside the Tech Lead. Review the frontend team's code and hold the quality line there, even though you are not writing most of it.
• Own security practice: authentication and authorisation, secrets handling, dependency and supply-chain risk, and data protection appropriate to our clients' obligations.
• Evaluate new technologies, frameworks and tools, and decide what the team adopts.
• Resolve technical escalations — including stepping in to code a fix personally when it's the fastest path to resolution.
• Own the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment and observability.
• Own production. You are the person who gets the backend working again when it breaks.
• Own technical risk. Identify technical debt, security risk or delivery risk early, quantify it, and act on it — not just report it, but put it in front of the CEO with an option and a recommendation.

Delivery & Operations Oversight

• Own delivery performance across all active projects: timelines, quality, resourcing and client-facing technical commitments.
• Manage workload and resourcing across the team, including prioritisation when capacity is under pressure.
• Run the operational rhythm of the team: standups, sprint planning, reporting cadence.
• Identify and remove delivery bottlenecks before they become client-facing problems.
• Report delivery status, risks and resourcing needs directly to the CEO, with a clear view and a recommendation, not just a status update.

Team Leadership & Development

• Hold direct leadership accountability for the full Vietnam technical team: developers, Business Analysis and QA/Testing.
• Manage the Development team directly, including performance, development and workload.
• Build the capability of the wider team, including BA and QA: mentoring, career development, and identifying who is ready for more responsibility.
• Own hiring input and onboarding for engineering roles in Vietnam.
• Handle performance issues directly and early. Escalate to the CEO only when needed, with the issue already worked through.

AI Adoption & Implementation

• Own the practical rollout of AI tools and AI-assisted workflows across the engineering team, from code generation through to testing and documentation.
• Identify where AI can reduce delivery time or cost on client work, and put it into production, not just pilot it.
• Set the expectation and baseline that AI-assisted tools are part of how the team works day to day, not an optional extra.
• Track and report the impact of AI adoption on delivery speed, cost and quality.
• Keep the team current on relevant AI development tools and bring forward what's worth adopting.

• 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with proven experience as a Tech Lead / Engineering Lead - and still hands-on in the codebase today.
• Strong expertise in backend system design, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience delivering AI / LLM-powered products in production environments.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage delivery, and balance technical trade-offs with business needs.
• Excellent communication skills in English with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and operational discipline.
• Hard-working and hands-on: willing to jump in and help wherever the team needs it, not just delegate and report.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, client-facing environment where priorities can shift quickly.

• Competitive salary - up to $3,000 USD per month depending on experience
• Social insurance on full salary per government legislation
• Great leave options
  • 12 days annual leave and 5 days of paid sick leave during Year 1
  • Increasing to 15 days annual leave in Year 2
• 13th month salary
• Birthday leave after probation
• Continuous learning and development
• Reward and recognition - company-sponsored trips and events
• Private health insurance and annual health check-up
• State-of-the-art equipment: laptop, monitor, and headset
• Support from, and collaboration with, talented and friendly colleagues
• An international work environment with highly skilled colleagues to learn from, both locally and globally, where you can grow your IT career and English skills
• Working hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (1-hour lunch break), Monday to Friday