Technical Director – Temp to Hire

🕒 May 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $113 - $130 / hour

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Instrument

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201 - 500 employees

Instrument is a values-driven, integrated digital agency working virtually together across the US.Follow us on social media @instrument.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve the technical vision, building on an existing GCP architecture (Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud SQL) and guiding integration with a modern Angular-based SPA • Lead architectural decision-making across the stack, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability of a real-time, stateful system • Drive delivery health by evaluating feasibility, identifying risks early, and shaping scope to support sustainable execution • Mentor and unblock a senior, multi-disciplinary engineering team; actively participate in sprint planning, standups, retros, and architectural reviews • Uphold code quality across backend and frontend systems, including state management, rendering performance, and accessibility standards • Act as the technical bridge across Engineering, Design, Strategy, and Production—translating AI capabilities into actionable product and UX decisions • Partner with clients and external teams as a senior technical advisor, clearly communicating complex systems and influencing direction • Collaborate closely with the Executive Technical Director to ensure strong alignment across technical strategy and client partnership • Establish best practices for AI-augmented engineering, guiding the use of tools like Gemini, Cursor, or Claude Code to accelerate development responsibly • Apply deep expertise across Full-stack development, Systems Architecture, and GCP to scale a complex, distributed system

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience operating as a Technical Director, Principal Engineer, or Architect leading complex, multi-disciplinary teams • Deep full-stack fluency, with the ability to guide frontend architecture (TypeScript, Angular/React/Vue) and backend systems (Python, async processing, distributed services) • Strong expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, with the ability to contribute across the stack when needed • Advanced experience architecting and deploying systems on GCP, including containerized microservices, database design (SQL/NoSQL), and DevOps/IaC practices (Terraform) • Experience bringing generative AI systems into production, with an understanding of latency, orchestration, and multi-agent architectures • Solid foundation in security, deployment, monitoring, and systems operations at scale • Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic decision-making to keep teams moving efficiently • Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders and guide cross-functional collaboration • Experience working within delivery frameworks, maintaining visibility into timelines, budgets, staffing, and technical risk • Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks such as Angular (preferred), React, or Vue, with a strong grasp of complex state management • Strong understanding of accessibility standards and frontend performance considerations • Familiarity with generative AI technologies (LLMs, agentic systems) and modern AI-augmented engineering workflows • A collaborative, low-ego leadership style with the ability to partner across disciplines and lead through ambiguity

🏖️ Benefits

• This engagement runs from 6/1–10/9 at 40 hours/week • Intention to convert to full-time if it’s a strong mutual fit.