Jobs · Engineering · Illinois

Lead Engineer

Craft Digital · Time, IL · 1 mo 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

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