Technical Lead
About the Company
Technical Lead for Scout and MyScout (www.covenant-hr.com) Remote opportunity with preferred sourcing locations in India, the Philippines, and Colombia. Help shape two live products, build useful features with AI development agents, and work directly with customers on the integrations that make the technology valuable.
Interview with Scout - You will be interviewed by the technology you will help build. If you receive an interview invitation, completing an interview with Scout is a required step in our hiring process, subject to reasonable accommodations. If you need an accommodation or an accessible alternative interview format, please contact us through the recruiting channel before your interview.
About the Role
The opportunity We are hiring a hands-on technical lead to help develop and maintain Scout and MyScout. You will work directly with the founder, translate business priorities into technical work, and join customer calls to understand requirements and guide integrations. You will direct our AI development agents, define their work, review changes, troubleshoot problems, and verify results.
Why this role matters Your work will reach real customers. You will see how features, integrations, and fixes affect their experience. You will have direct access to the founder and a meaningful voice in technical decisions and product priorities. You will help establish how we develop, test, document, and deliver the products as the business grows.
Responsibilities
Turn business and customer requirements into clear technical tasks and acceptance criteria.
Build and maintain features, review generated code, diagnose issues, and verify changes in the application.
Lead technical integration discussions with customer teams, including requirements, authentication, data mapping, and testing.
Manage technical customer setup and coordinate application releases and hosting issues with our existing hosting provider.
Keep documentation and the work list current, communicate progress, and raise blockers with practical recommendations.
Qualifications
Experience with recruiting technology or HR systems is useful. We value transferable skills and the ability to learn our workflow.
Required Skills
Hands-on experience building and supporting production web applications or SaaS products, with enough coding ability to inspect changes and resolve problems.
Practical experience with APIs, authentication, webhooks, databases, and troubleshooting integrations.
Experience using AI coding tools or development agents, combined with independent technical judgment and verification of their output.
Clear spoken and written English and confidence speaking with customer technical leads.
Good judgment around customer data, credentials, testing, releases, and recovery from failed changes.
The ability to take ownership, manage competing priorities, and work reliably with a remote team.
Preferred Skills
Experience with recruiting technology or HR systems is useful.
We value transferable skills and the ability to learn our workflow.
What early success looks like
Understand both products, their development workflow, and the responsibilities shared with the hosting provider.
Demonstrate ownership of a maintenance issue and deliver an agreed improvement with evidence that it works.
Document the technical onboarding process and lead a customer technical discussion, or a practice session when no customer call is scheduled.