Technical Lead (Engineering)

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Analyze product requirements and develop high-quality, production-ready code that delivers strong user experiences.
• Build and maintain user-facing features across the full stack, from database models and APIs to UI components.
• Own the technical architecture for major initiatives and guide the team through complex technical decisions.
• Develop services and APIs that support new and existing web application capabilities.
• Maintain system and codebase health through refactoring, performance improvements, testing, and reliability initiatives.
• Write clear technical specifications that support high-quality development and smooth deployments.
• Lead large releases to production within a continuous deployment environment.
• Establish and maintain technical standards for code quality, testing, architecture, and engineering excellence.
• Directly manage 2–6 engineers, including regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development discussions.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, pairing sessions, code reviews, and support with problem-solving approaches.
• Remove technical, process, and cross-functional blockers so the team can maintain momentum.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in hiring by interviewing candidates, assessing technical capabilities, and helping grow the engineering organization.
• Partner with product and design teams to translate product vision into executable technical plans.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience across both frontend and backend development, with a strong record of delivering high-impact products.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers, whether through formal people management or technical leadership.
• Strong React fundamentals and professional experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
• A strong understanding of building intuitive, high-quality, consumer-oriented digital experiences.
• Experience working in a startup or similarly fast-paced environment where you have taken on multiple responsibilities and moved quickly.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence product direction, align stakeholders, and provide effective feedback.
• A strong bias toward action and execution, with a willingness to remain hands-on in coding, system improvement, and technical problem-solving.
• Ability to balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with people management and team leadership.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and creating structure, direction, and practical solutions where requirements are not fully defined.
• Experience with technologies and tools such as TypeScript, NestJS, TypeORM, PostgreSQL, Redis, React, Tailwind, and GCP is valuable.
• Applicants must be based in the United States.

Benefits:

• Full-time remote position for candidates based in the United States.
• Competitive compensation of $200,000–$230,000.
• Opportunity to work closely with a highly talented engineering team in a fast-paced environment.
• Significant ownership over technical architecture, engineering standards, and product development.
• Opportunity to combine hands-on software development with technical leadership and people management.
• Exposure to a modern technology stack spanning TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, React, Tailwind, and GCP.