Lead Software Developer - AI-Native Platform

About the role

Aspire Software is looking for a Lead Software Developer in Lebanon to rebuild a proven government software product into an AI-native, agentic platform. You will be the first technical hire, architect and lead builder, reporting directly to the General Manager. The role starts hands-on, writing much of the code itself, and later leads a small product engineering team of about 3 to 6 people.

Key responsibilities

• Own the architecture of an AI-native, agentic platform built on current-generation models, tooling and infrastructure.
• Ship the rebuilt product to existing government customers and migrate them off the legacy system without disruption.
• Design security, privacy, accessibility and audit requirements from day one.
• Hire, set the engineering culture and grow the team.
• Decide where to use frontier models, open-source tools and partners versus building your own stack.
• Months 0-2: build the core platform (data layer, agent orchestration, evaluation and guardrails, integrations, security baseline).
• Months 2-4: refine with design-partner customers and bring reliability, security and compliance to production standard.
• Month 4 onward: migrate customers in planned waves, set monitoring and incident response, hire and onboard the team, and set the 12-24 month roadmap.

Required profile

• At least one product you built and scaled with real customers, as founder, founding engineer, engineering lead or CTO.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered features in production: agents, tool use, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and managing cost and latency.
• Comfortable owning backend, data, cloud infrastructure and enough frontend to ship.
• Strong sense of security, authentication, data protection, audit logging and least privilege.
• Willingness to hire, mentor and set the culture of a small team.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs to government directors, customer IT teams and leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience building for or inside government, healthcare, insurance or other regulated buyers.
• Familiarity with public-sector security frameworks such as SOC 2, FedRAMP, GovRAMP or Canadian equivalents.
• Track record of migrating customers from a legacy system to a new platform.
• Experience leading engineering across regions and time zones.
• Open-source contributions, published work or side projects in AI agents.
• English-French bilingualism, if relevant to customers or location.

What we offer

• Real ownership of a blank-page platform build with existing customers waiting.
• Competitive base salary plus equity or long-term incentives.
• The stability and customer base of an established company with startup speed.