Application Development Team Lead

About the role

As an Application Development Team Lead, you will guide a team of application engineers building NaviStone's platform in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, while staying hands-on with front-end and back-end development yourself. You'll own how your team works, strengthening agile practices, improving cycle time, and partnering closely with product and stakeholders to ship the right things well.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of application engineers while staying hands-on with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, writing and reviewing code and setting the bar for quality, testing, and RESTful API design across synchronous and asynchronous services.
• Own how your team works, running agile ceremonies, improving cycle time, removing blockers, and tightening the path from idea to production.
• Manage your team's people side, including hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, feedback, and mentoring, and support each engineer's growth.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to shape a realistic roadmap, and represent your team's progress and risks to engineering leadership.
• Push the team forward on agentic engineering practices, building the team's skills with AI-assisted and agentic development tools.
• Continuously look for ways to use AI tools more efficiently and effectively, increasing your team's velocity and quality.

Requirements

• You have led, mentored, or managed engineers before, whether as a team lead, tech lead, or engineering manager, and know how to coach and grow a team.
• You have strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, React, and Node.js across the full stack, and understand best practices for RESTful API design, both synchronous and asynchronous.
• You have worked on agile development teams and have a track record of improving how a team ships, whether that's cycle time, predictability, or process friction.
• You are product-minded and communicate clearly with product managers, stakeholders, and non-technical audiences.
• You can balance hands-on coding with the people and process work of leading a team, and prioritize across your roadmap, technical debt, and production support.
• Experience with data pipelines, medallion architecture, Snowflake, or BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau is a plus but not required.

Location

Cincinnati, OH in Over-the-Rhine. Hybrid role, in office 2 days per week.

Benefits

• Generous medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits for you and your family.
• Unlimited vacation and a generous number of paid holidays.
• Countless professional and personal development opportunities to fuel your ambitions.
• Fun employee events throughout the year.