Everpeak Contracting is solving the biggest problem in construction: projects get underestimated. Contractors underprice what a job will cost them to build, and owners do not know what budget to allocate, especially at feasibility. The answer already sits in their own invoices and closed project files, unstructured.

We run one benchmark cost estimating engine and onboard each client onto it with their own completed project history, cleaned and structured, so their next estimate is grounded in what their own work actually cost.

PeakAI is the AI agent inside that engine. It reads a client's documents, sorts every cost line into our standard cost structure, and answers estimating questions from the client's own history, with every figure linked back to its source document.

The Role

You are the Technical Lead who will own how that platform is built. You will report to the Founder and CEO, and you will have developers and co-op interns reporting to you.

This role is not primarily a hands-on coding seat. You are here to give the work structure: architecture, standards, code review, sprint shape, and the technical judgment calls that stop an early-stage product from painting itself into a corner. You will write code where the problem is hard enough to deserve you, and you will delegate the rest.

Essential Responsibilities

Owns the technical architecture of the platform: data model, services, ingestion pipeline, agent layer and deployment

Sets and enforces engineering standards: branching, pull requests, code review, testing, documentation and environment management

Designs how PeakAI is built: prompting, retrieval over client documents, tool use, confidence scoring, the human review queue, and the evaluation harness that proves it is getting better rather than louder

Breaks the product roadmap into sprints and tickets that a small team can actually finish, and holds the team to them

Leads developers and co-op interns day to day: assigns work, reviews their pull requests, unblocks them, and grows their capability

Makes build-versus-buy calls on models, vendors, frameworks and infrastructure, and documents the reasoning

Owns the security and data-handling posture of the platform, which matters because clients hand us their complete cost history under confidentiality

Writes code directly on the hardest parts: the ingestion and classification core, agent behaviour, and anything that would cost the team a week to get wrong

Translates between the Founder, the estimating side of the business and the development team, so the platform matches how construction work is actually priced and built

Keeps a written record of architectural decisions so the next hire can pick up the thread

Qualifications

5+ years building and shipping production software, with at least some of it owning a system end to end rather than a feature inside someone else's

Demonstrated experience building with large language models: not only using a chatbot, but putting an LLM into a product, including prompting, retrieval over private documents and tool or function calling

Experience building agentic systems, or a clear and specific account of what you have built and what broke

Strong Python. Comfortable across the full stack: APIs, a database, a front end, and the pipeline in between

Cloud deployment experience. We are on Microsoft Azure and integrate with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint through the Microsoft Graph API, so familiarity with that ecosystem is a real advantage

Experience leading or mentoring other developers, including reviewing their work and telling them when it is not good enough

Able to design a system against requirements that are still moving, and to say plainly when a request is a bad idea

A high and genuine interest in where AI is going, and a daily working habit of using AI tooling in your own work

Comfortable in an early-stage startup: small team, limited resources, direction that changes, no established process to inherit

Based in Greater Vancouver and available for regular in-person working sessions

Legally entitled to work in Canada

Assets

Experience with retrieval-augmented generation over messy real-world documents: scanned invoices, handwritten notes, inconsistent spreadsheets

Experience with document extraction and OCR pipelines, and a realistic view of where they fail

Experience building evaluation harnesses for LLM output, so quality is measured rather than asserted

Experience with human-in-the-loop review systems, confidence scoring and approval queues

Construction, engineering, manufacturing or other heavy industry background, or experience building software for people who work in those industries

Experience working with data exported from accounting or ERP systems, and an understanding of where that data is unreliable

Experience taking a product from prototype to first paying client

Experience mentoring co-op or junior developers through a structured term

Working Conditions

Part-time, 20 to 24 hours per week. The schedule is set with the successful candidate and we are flexible about how the week is arranged

Hybrid. Remote work for most of the week, with regular in-person working sessions in Greater Vancouver

You must be based in Greater Vancouver

This is a part-time employee position, not a contract

Compensation

$45.00 to $55.00 per hour.

This is the expected hourly wage range for this role. Individual pay will be determined based on experience, knowledge, skills and demonstrated work.

We are an early-stage company and we are direct about what that means. The cash rate reflects where we are, not what we think the work is worth. What the role offers alongside it is ownership of the architecture of an AI product from its first client onward, a team of your own to lead, and the freedom to make the technical calls without a committee. If you want a seat where your decisions visibly shape the product, this is one.

How to Apply

Submit your resume to info@everpeakcontracting.com with the subject line “Technical Lead”.

In the body of your email, describe one thing you have built with an LLM, and tell us what it got wrong and how you found out. These are reviewed first. A cover letter is encouraged.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Employment Equity

Everpeak Contracting is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified individuals, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other identifying characteristic, are encouraged to apply.

Accommodations are available in all parts of our hiring process. Applicants should make their needs known in advance by email to info@everpeakcontracting.com.

Pay: $45.00-$55.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20.0 – 24.0 per week

Benefits:

Flexible schedule

Application question(s):

Do you have experience working with LLMs and building agents? if so, give us brief description of your latest experience.
Are you aware this is a part time position?
Are you legally entitled to work in Canada?
Are you based in BC? if so where?

Experience:

Software development: 5 years (preferred)

Work Location: Remote

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