Lead Product Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical and product guidance to Product Engineers and Senior Product Engineers
• Ensure consistent, high-quality execution across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex technical or product challenges
• Balance hands-on contribution with oversight to ensure delivery velocity and quality
• Oversee the design and delivery of complex, cross-cutting product capabilities
• Maintain accountability for system quality, reliability, scalability, and maintainability across the team’s outputs
• Ensure consistent and accurate translation of domain workflows into product capabilities across engineers
• Partner with SMEs and Product to validate that solutions reflect real-world operational complexity and constraints
• Identify gaps, edge cases, and inconsistencies across implementations and drive alignment
• Guide architectural direction across key areas of the platform in partnership with engineering leadership
• Establish and enforce patterns, standards, and best practices across the team
• Achieve appropriate tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and long-term system health
• Define and continuously improve how Product Engineering work is executed (e.g., scoping, breakdown, handoffs, iteration)
• Ensure strong alignment between Product, Engineering, and SMEs throughout the development lifecycle
• Improve clarity in execution by driving better definition, estimation, and sequencing of work
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Serve as a key interface between Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders
• Provide clear communication on technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and progress
• Help align stakeholders on priorities, scope, and execution strategy
• Hands-On Development & Technical Depth
• Contribute directly to critical areas of the codebase, particularly in complex or high-risk areas
• Set the standard for engineering quality, maintainability, and performance through direct contribution
• Support troubleshooting, debugging, and resolution of complex production issues
• Mentorship & Team Development
• Actively mentor and develop Product Engineers and Senior Product Engineers
• Raise the bar on system design thinking, product judgment, and engineering quality
• Help identify skill gaps and support growth across the team
• Iteration & Continuous Improvement
• Drive continuous improvement across both product capabilities and engineering processes
• Identify opportunities to improve developer velocity, system reliability, and overall team effectiveness
• Ensure feedback loops (customer, SME, internal) are incorporated into ongoing development

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of experience building and shipping high-quality production software
• Proven experience leading or guiding teams in complex, ambiguous environments
• Demonstrated ability to operate as both an individual contributor and team leader
• Good judgment in ambiguous environments where the problem is not fully defined yet, where we need to go from zero to one
• The ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical teammates
• A bias toward action: you thrive in an environment where you are learning quickly, shipping thoughtfully, and improving through iteration
• Strong experience with a modern frontend stack, including TypeScript, React, and/or Next.js, styling systems/libraries, and modern build tooling
• Strong product instincts, great design taste, and a clear sense for building products that feel natural and intuitive to end users
• Experience with rapid prototyping and tools/workflows that enable fast iteration cycles
• Experience building modern backend systems using Python, Go, Rust, or similar languages, including APIs, middleware, ORMs, authentication, authorization, and security-minded application design
• Experience building and shipping software on major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience working in a modern software development environment and shipping quickly with high ownership
• Comfort navigating and iteratively improving on shared CI/CD, Observability, Reporting, Analytics, and Data-heavy Systems
• Experience leading engineering efforts in regulated industries (fintech, mortgage, lending, etc.)
• Experience building workflow-heavy systems or internal operational tools
• Experience scaling teams, processes, and systems in a high-growth environment
• Experience improving engineering velocity, system performance, and reliability at scale
• Experience working closely with product and domain SMEs in complex environments