Hiring: Strategic Project Lead – Software Engineering

Experience: 10+ Years

Engagement: 3 Months Contract | Freelance / Part-Time

Location: Remote

Shift: 8 Hours/Day — 7:30 PM to 11:30 PM fixed + 4 flexible schedule

LinkedIn Profile: Mandatory in CV

Role Overview

We are looking for a Strategic Project Lead – Software Engineering to lead large-scale software engineering data programs and ensure predictable delivery across quality, throughput, contributor performance, timelines, and cost .

The role combines technical leadership with program and operations management , supporting initiatives such as coding demonstrations, repository-level tasks, agentic trajectories, RL environments, benchmarks, code reviews, and rubric-based evaluations.

Key Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end program delivery across scope, quality, timelines, throughput, performance, and cost.
- Design and optimize workflows for coding datasets, benchmarks, agentic tasks, RL environments, and technical evaluations.
- Lead distributed teams and contributor networks,



potentially involving 100–1,000+ software engineers .
- Build team-lead, reviewer, onboarding, training, and quality-control structures.
- Analyze quality signals, datasets, defects, bottlenecks, and operational metrics to identify root causes.
- Partner with talent teams to source, assess, onboard, and ramp technical contributors.
- Act as a key customer-facing contact, communicating progress, risks, quality trends, and recovery plans.
- Translate research objectives into practical technical task specifications and challenge requirements when needed.
- Use Python, SQL, or similar tools for quality sampling, defect analysis, reporting, and operational reviews.
- Develop reusable playbooks, evaluation assets, quality controls, and contributor-management systems.
- Mentor other program and project leads and drive continuous operational improvement.

Requirements

- 10+ years of experience in complex program leadership, technical program management,

📌 Senior Software Engineer (India)
🏢 Sourcebae
📍 India