Engineering Team Lead

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Team Lead to join our remote-first team. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, preferably in backend (Python) or frontend (React, TypeScript, or modern JavaScript frameworks), and a proven track record of mentoring and growing engineers. The role involves building a small team of engineers who focus on designing agents and agentic engineering systems, reviewing agent-generated work for quality and correctness, and coordinating this work across the codebase. The successful candidate will lead a team of engineers, own hiring and reviews, and ensure the team delivers high-quality work efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing, healthy, well-functioning team of engineers
• Own hiring and reviews for your team
• Lead the team's delivery and quality bar
• Design solutions, review agent output on risky paths, and ship the hard parts yourself
• Run 1:1s, grow careers, and coach engineers
• Interview candidates and evaluate new hires
• Pair with engineers to unblock stalled migrations
• Carry team priorities into cross-team engineering forums

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, preferably in backend (Python) or frontend (React, TypeScript, or modern JavaScript frameworks)
• Experience in a technical lead, team lead, or hands-on project management role, with a track record of mentoring and growing engineers
• Experience owning a team's delivery: setting direction, breaking down ambiguous work, holding people accountable to commitments, and driving projects to done
• Demonstrated ability to design solutions with AI development tools and coding assistants, and to raise a team's standard for reviewing agent-generated work
• Strong experience across our stack: Python, React, and TypeScript, plus databases, caching strategies, UNIX development tools, and deploying to AWS or other cloud infrastructure
• Readiness to own the people work of a lead: performing reviews, interviewing and evaluating candidates, and developing careers
• Experience turning recurring problems into owned, shared solutions, and managing projects cross-functionally to deadline in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to inspire and mentor engineers across experience levels

Qualifications

• Experience leading delivery in a high-volume agentic or AI-assisted codebase, including verification, trust, and code-review challenges
• Experience in a remote-first, asynchronous engineering culture
• Background in email or marketing SaaS, web platforms, backend services, or front-end at scale
• Familiarity with application monitoring, metrics, performance tuning, and scaling web applications, plus Test Driven Development, release management, and QA practices you can champion across a team
• Experience with vendor relationship management for software, services, or external consultants
• Experience developing others' AI and agentic capability through working sessions, documentation, or reusable patterns
• Experience running a team through a migration or platform shift without stalling delivery, and understanding open source contribution and licensing

Skills

• Agentic development
• Hands-on software engineering
• Technical lead experience
• Team management
• AI development tools
• Code review
• Project management
• Remote work
• Agentic engineering systems

Benefits

• 100% Remote
• Flexible work arrangements
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Sabbatical leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Conferences and learning opportunities
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Short-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Additional supplemental benefits