AI Tech Lead - Node.js & React

At Mindera, we believe in working together to create excellent software solutions. Our commitment to innovation drives us to leverage cutting-edge AI technology to deliver outstanding products and services. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Tech/Team Lead to steer our engineering team in the evaluation and implementation of AI-driven solutions.

Your Role:

As our AI Tech Lead, you will lead and mentor an engineering team focused on developing and deploying robust AI solutions. You will help elevate the team's skill set in AI technologies while overseeing the choice of our AI Platform, from wherein we will build our AI-powered solutions.

You'll be joining an organization that has already taken meaningful first steps into AI — workshops, hackathons, AI champions, and early workflows and skills have already been established. What's needed now is a dedicated leader to build on that foundation: someone who can evolve existing AI workflows, convert them into usable internal agents, and strengthen governance and quality/security standards as the program matures. Beyond leading the engineering team, you'll provide hands-on support and coaching to drive AI adoption more broadly across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor the AI Enablement team
• Own selection and evolution of the AI platform the organization builds on
• Evolve existing AI workflows and convert them into production-grade internal agents
• Design scalable, secure, performant architectures for AI systems
• Manage the full AI project lifecycle: conceptualization → build → deployment → maintenance
• Establish and enforce governance, quality, and security guardrails across AI workflows
• Provide hands-on coaching to drive AI adoption across the business, beyond the engineering team
• Stay hands-on in coding, model development, and technical design review
• Communicate technical vision clearly to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience leading/mentoring AI and software engineering teams, including POCs and applications
• Fullstack background in Node.js & React
• Deep practical experience with AI models, frameworks, and deployment strategies
• Experience integrating AI into existing systems and turning workflows into usable agents
• Expertise in secure, scalable AI system architecture
• Experience managing projects through full lifecycles
• Experience with (or ability to define) governance/guardrails for AI systems — not just building, but keeping it safe and high-quality
• Strong change-management or adoption-driving skills — this role needs someone comfortable coaching non-engineers, not just leading engineers
• Excellent communication skills across technical and business audiences

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania