Lead Engineer
Craft Digital · Time, IL · 3 days ago
EngineeringFull-time
What You'd Actually Do
- Own delivery end-to-end on most active client projects — scope, architecture, shipping, and production stability
- Code 60–70% of the time; the rest is PR review, agent orchestration, Linear issue management, and keeping the team unblocked
- Make the architecture decisions: auth, data model, deployment, integration patterns
- Sit in on key client conversations to make sure the build matches the scope
- Help shape how we hire and operate as we scale our delivery team
Who You Are
- You've been the senior or lead engineer at a small product team, consultancy, or growing company — not a slice of a 10,000-engineer org
- You've shipped end-to-end and you know what that actually requires
- You're already using Claude Code or a comparable AI coding agent daily, and you have real opinions about how to use them well
- You're fluent in Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Supabase or a comparable Postgres-backed stack
- Vercel is your default deploy target
- You can take a Figma file or a rough spec and turn it into clean, polished product without pixel-by-pixel direction
- You care about client outcomes more than pristine code — shipping a working dashboard on Friday beats refactoring forever
What You Probably Don't Fit If
- Your experience is primarily at a large org where you owned one service in a massive system
- We need range, not depth in a single domain
- You want a roadmap-meeting culture or someone handing you tickets
- You're skeptical of AI-assisted development or think it's a fad
- You need a fully specced PRD before you can start — a lot of our work begins as a Loom and a Slack thread