Lead Engineer

About the Role

At the center of our community is a web platform that weaves together learning experiences, learner recognition, portfolio publishing, and the tools contributors need to participate in a real game project. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to own the technical direction and day-to-day engineering operations of that platform. This is a hands-on role that combines deep technical expertise with team and delivery management.

Technical Leadership

• Drive code standards & technical architecture norms
• Own technical/engineering roadmap and architecture
• Seek and implement best engineering practices (e.g. how AI can help internal engineering, how to improve monitoring & incident response, shared code review norms, technical documentation, how to get the most out of QA)
• Participate in thorough code review to ensure quality and contribute to team momentum

Team Operations & Delivery

• Run day-to-day operations (standups, sprint planning, retrospective, issue triage)
• Enhance team communication and collaboration, define practices such as meeting schedule and structure, rituals, and team updates
• Report of progress against roadmap to Product Manager, flagging risks
• Produce agile estimates for delivery schedule
• Communicate priorities within the team & assign resources
• Raise & resolve impediments that are slowing down progress
• Act as a primary point of contact between the engineers & rest of business, day-to-day responsiveness for bugs & questions e.g. "how does chat work"

Product Collaboration

• Provide input to VP Engineering on technical strategy and team needs
• Validate work in progress against requirements and product intentions
• Ensure the team understands the product strategy (in collaboration with Product Manager)
• Contribute to roadmap planning and prioritization discussions (in collaboration with Product Manager)
• Translate product requirements into well-defined engineering tickets and team priorities