Backend Team Lead- GenAI

We offer the industry’s only platform that fuses customer identity and anti-fraud solutions – customer identity management, identity verification, and fraud prevention.

We sell to industries with large, consumer-facing businesses such as: banking, financial services, insurance, fintech, gaming, ecommerce/retail, telco / media, utilities, etc.

About the Role:

As the AI Team Lead at Transmit Security, you will guide a team of highly skilled machine learning engineers in developing and deploying advanced AI/ML solutions that power our identity and security products. You’ll combine technical depth with leadership skills to drive innovation, ensure delivery of high-impact projects, and scale our data-driven capabilities across the organization.

This role requires both strategic thinking and hands-on expertise. You’ll be responsible for shaping the data science roadmap, mentoring a growing team, and collaborating with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate business challenges into practical machine learning solutions.

What you’ll do:

• Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of machine learning engineers and data scientists.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Define team goals, measure progress, and ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the data science strategy and align it with company objectives.
• Identify opportunities for applying machine learning and generative AI across products and internal systems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies to keep the team ahead of the curve.
• Hands-On Technical Work

• Design, prototype, and implement ML models, including LLM-powered copilots, retrieval systems, and fraud detection pipelines.
• Guide the deployment of models into production environments with scalability and reliability in mind. Ensure best practices for experimentation, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering to integrate ML components into production systems.
• Partner with product managers to align solutions with customer needs and business priorities.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure ethical and secure use of data.
  
  

• Proven experience leading backend or ML-platform engineering teams (2+ years in a leadership role), including mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions.
• Excellent coding skills in Python/TypeScript, with hands-on experience building reliable backend services and tooling. Familiarity with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face) is a strong advantage.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining production systems that integrate ML components, including APIs, microservices, model serving layers, feature pipelines, monitoring, and CI/CD/MLOps workflows. Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, performance optimization, observability, and operating services at scale. Strong communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical, product, and business perspectives. Prior experience in cybersecurity, fraud prevention, or identity management is a plus, especially with secure system architectures or ML-augmented decisioning systems.