Engineering Team Lead (SDET)

About the role

Ten Mile Square is seeking an experienced, hands-on Engineering Team Lead (SDET) to lead a team responsible for quality engineering, test automation, release engineering, and engineering enablement. The successful candidate will support the incremental modernization of a large-scale financial services platform, working across modern cloud technologies and complex legacy systems. This is an individual contributor role combining strong Agile leadership, software engineering expertise, and hands-on problem-solving. The ideal candidate embraces AI-assisted engineering, thrives in technically challenging environments, and enables teams to deliver high-quality software predictably and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Lead Agile team execution, fostering ownership, collaboration, accountability, predictable delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Architect, develop, and maintain reusable test automation frameworks, engineering tools, and quality engineering practices.
• Establish effective testing strategies across API, integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance testing.
• Leverage Claude and other AI tools to improve engineering productivity, automation, testing, and problem-solving.
• Develop strategies for discovering, creating, managing, and maintaining test data across complex, interconnected systems.
• Support testing, release execution, validation, and troubleshooting across modern applications and challenging legacy integrations.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to refine requirements, manage dependencies, plan sprints, and deliver reliable solutions.
• Improve CI/CD integration, automated quality gates, deployment processes, and release confidence.
• Mentor engineers, promote engineering excellence, and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
• Proactively collaborate with the Ten Mile Square team on development and knowledge sharing.
• Represent yourself and Ten Mile Square with integrity, expertise, and value.
• Maintain the confidentiality of our clients on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in test automation.
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Team Lead, providing hands-on technical leadership, Agile delivery leadership, and team mentorship.
• Strong understanding and practical application of Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, or comparable languages.
• Expertise designing and developing automation frameworks for distributed systems, APIs, and complex integrations.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Claude and AI-assisted software engineering tools.
• Experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, and modern software architectures.
• Experience managing complex test data and troubleshooting integration issues across multiple systems.
• Ability to work effectively with brittle, poorly documented, or legacy systems without requiring expertise in their underlying technologies.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, quality engineering, and maintainable code.

Additional qualifications

• Self-motivated to proactively identify and solve problems.
• Passionate about what you do.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly.
• Strong Agile mindset with a commitment to team ownership and success.
• Resourceful, persistent, and comfortable navigating technical complexity and ambiguity.
• Detail-oriented.
• High integrity and quality of work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills – within team and with clients.

Benefits

• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (including family)
• 100% company paid individual short- and long-term disability
• 100% company paid vision insurance
• 3% company contribution to 401(k)
• 15 days paid time off per year + 1 day/year up to 20 days
• 10 training days per year
• 8 company holidays + 2 personal days
• Individual performance-based quarterly cash incentive
• Combined individual and company based annual cash incentive
• Public transit reimbursement

Pay

Compensation (Base + Standard Incentive Pay): $182,500 ($160K base + $22,500 standard incentive)

Schedule

Full-time, U.S. Eastern Time working hours. Occasional short-duration travel may be required for project/team in-person sessions.

Additional details

• Job Type: Full-time, not C2C
• Job Location: Remote, US based only
• Visa Sponsorship: None available