Technical Ops Lead at Lemon.io - Remote Europe — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Fully Remote & Location-Independent — This role is explicitly full-time remote, making it a strong fit for digital nomads. Lemon.io places contractors globally across 75+ countries, so there is no single country restriction as long as you're in a supported region.
Timezone Flexibility: The client is a European AI lab, which suggests meetings and collaboration will likely lean toward European business hours (CET/CEST, roughly UTC+1 to UTC+2). This is worth confirming at the project-matching stage, but it means nomads based in Lisbon (WET/WEST), Eastern Europe, or Southeast Asia with overlap hours (e.g., Thailand UTC+7 for early-morning calls) are well positioned.
Cost of Living Comparison (no salary disclosed):
- Lisbon, Portugal: A popular EU nomad hub; moderate cost (~$2,500–3,500/mo), great timezone alignment with European clients.
- Bangkok, Thailand: Very affordable (~$1,200–2,000/mo), but requires early-morning calls for European timezone sync.
- Medellín, Colombia: Budget-friendly (~$1,500–2,500/mo), but a 5–7 hour gap from CET makes overlap challenging.
Visa Considerations: Since this is a contractor model (not direct hire), you'll need to manage your own legal/tax setup. Portugal's Digital Nomad Visa (D8), Germany's Freelancer Visa, and Estonia's Digital Nomad Visa are all viable for European stays. For short stints, tourist visas in Thailand, Colombia, or Portugal work well for contractors.
No equipment stipend or coworking allowance mentioned — budget for your own setup accordingly.
Lemon.io helps companies in the US and Europe hire experienced engineers, from funded startups to teams like Klarna, Retool, and Pinterest. We've been doing this since 2015, and more than 1,500 companies have hired engineers through us.
We are looking for a Technical Operations Lead for our client: a leading European AI lab working on advanced AI models and data annotation projects. They collaborate with Lemon.io to scale their annotation and technical operations teams.
Who We're Looking For
A Technical Operations Lead with the following qualifications:
- 5+ years of commercial experience with Python
- 3+ years of commercial experience in Project Management
- You've built projects from scratch and made solid architecture decisions
- You own problems end-to-end: you spot the issue, design and build the solution, and ship it to production
- You can show the business impact of your work with concrete results (e.g., faster processing, lower costs, more users, fewer incidents)
- Advanced English: you discuss business tasks, explain your decisions, raise issues early, and present yourself and your results well on client calls
- You work full-time remotely and deliver without supervision
- You onboard quickly and start shipping in your first weeks
How It Works
- Apply and complete your profile
- Verify your role
- Once approved, we match you with a project
Ready? Apply now!
Not the right tech stack?
Lemon.io places Senior Developers (4+ years commercial experience) across a wide range of specializations, including: AI Agent Architecture, AI Automation Architecture, AI Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Enterprise Software Engineering, Magento & PHP, React & Python, React & Golang, Golang, React & Java, React & Ruby, Ruby, PHP & Vue, Vue & Node.js, React & .NET, Android & iOS, iOS & Swift, Flutter & Firebase, Solutions Engineer, Blockchain (Ethereum/Ethers.js/Wagmi/Viem/Solana), Angular & Node.js, Vue & .NET, Python & Vue, DevOps, MLOps, Data Science, Angular & PHP, Angular & .NET, Symfony & React, Symfony & Vue, Symfony & Angular, Python, Symfony & JavaScript, Next.js & TypeScript, Data Analysis, React & PHP, Data Engineering, Project Management, Product Management, QA Automation, QA Manual, Embedded Software Engineering, React Native & Node, React Native & React, React Native & Ruby, React Native & Python, WordPress, Android, Angular, Python & Node, React & Node.js, Node & TypeScript, Java & Spring, Svelte & Python, Svelte & Node.js, Svelte & TypeScript, Rust, Shopify & JavaScript, Vue & Nuxt, PHP & Laravel, UI/UX Design, Animation, Graphic Design, React & Node & React Native, .NET & C#, Electron, Scala, C++, Unreal Engine & C++, Python & LLM, Unity, Machine Learning Engineering, and more. Reach out and we'll match you.
Please note: Lemon.io does not provide visa assistance, and the cooperation model does not include benefits typically offered with direct hire.
Lemon.io works with developers from 75+ countries across Europe, Latin America, North America (the U.S. and Canada), selected countries in Asia (Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and Israel), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea), and Africa (including Morocco and South Africa).
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