Engineering Team Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the team.
• Mentor and grow a team of product engineers.
• Manage and set the product engineering strategy.
• Keep delivery predictable.
• Own the AI-native process.
• Define how work is decomposed into agent-runnable tasks.
• Continuously refine the process.
• Establish clear human-decision points.
• Ship product.
• Design, build, and maintain features with AI-native engineering.
• Own data and integrations.
• Steward our database architecture and integrations.
• Set the quality bar.
• Test standards, CI checks, review discipline, and security practices.
• Measure and improve.
• Kill processes that slow the team down.
• Scale what makes it faster and safer.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineers.
• Strong full-stack depth with React and TypeScript in production.
• Solid back-end experience with Node.js or similar.
• Real experience with Google Cloud Platform and PostgreSQL.
• Working fluency with AI-assisted development.
• A reviewer’s eye: ability to read and catch what matters in large volumes of code.
• Clear written communication.
• Judgment, pragmatism, and steady ownership under ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with education technology: SIS/rostering integrations, LMS ecosystems, or student data privacy.
• Experience building or evaluating LLM-powered product features.
• Experience scaling engineering process at a growing company.

Pay

$150,000 - $160,000 salary range.

Benefits

• Employee benefits eligibility (health, disability, AD&D, life insurance).
• Matching 401k.
• Paid time off.
• Generous paid holidays.
• Ability to work fully remote.
• Company supplied device/laptop.