Python Team Lead - AI & Automation

About the role

Intetics Inc., a global technology company providing custom software development, distributed teams and digital solutions, is hiring a Python Team Lead on a full-time basis. The client is an international provider of intellectual property services and technology solutions, helping businesses protect and manage innovations through patent translation, international filing, research and renewal. The project replaces complex, labour-intensive backend business processes with Python-based automation and LLM-powered solutions. You will be the first engineer and Team Lead of a growing contractor team, setting up its technical foundations and working closely with an AI & Automation Product Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of automation initiatives, owning solution quality and delivery outcomes
• Work with the Product Manager and business stakeholders to understand workflows, clarify requirements and define priorities
• Translate business problems into technical plans and clearly scoped tasks
• Design and develop Python services, automated workflows and integrations with existing systems and APIs
• Apply LLM capabilities where they add measurable value, with validation and human review
• Establish engineering standards, development practices and a collaborative team culture
• Mentor engineers, delegate responsibilities and give constructive feedback and code reviews
• Identify risks, resolve blockers and communicate progress and trade-offs
• Ensure solutions include testing, monitoring, error handling and production support

Required profile

• Strong commercial experience building and maintaining production systems with Python
• Proven experience leading an engineering team while staying hands-on in technical design and development
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including active listening, constructive feedback and conflict resolution
• Ability to work with Product Managers and business stakeholders and to organise team workloads and delegate
• Experience delivering backend automation, system integrations or solutions that replace manual processes
• Strong spoken and written English

Required skills

• Backend engineering fundamentals: APIs, databases, data processing and error handling
• LLM integration into applications or automated workflows
• Automated testing, Git and production deployment practices
• Nice to have: building a new engineering team, document processing, workflow orchestration, background jobs and asynchronous processing