Technical Lead (Product Engineering)

Location: Argentina

Department: Engineering

Who We Are

Stensul is the Governed Creation™ Platform for enterprise marketing teams that need to create campaigns quickly, safely, and at scale. We bring creation, collaboration, and control together in one connected platform — combining AI-enabled creation, no-code production, embedded governance, and seamless integrations across the marketing tech stack. The result: faster output, lower costs, reduced risk, and work that stays consistently on brand.

At Stensul, we’re just as intentional about how we work as about what we build. We’re a people-first team that values inclusive collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to help define the future of marketing creation, we’d love to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate, lead, document and communicate architectural and technical discussions and decisions in the team, assessing risks and tradeoffs, and making sure all voices are heard, while favoring consent over consensus.
• Ensure technical principles, technical direction, policies (secure SDLC, data privacy, secrets management), processes (e.g. RCAs, Post-mortems, SOC2) and best practices are positively adopted and continuously improved by the whole team. Be hands-on and lead by example.
• Develop and promote a high-quality, technical sustainability-focused and continuous learning culture, along with cross-learning spaces and meetups.
• Develop a strong sense of ownership from idea to production, maturing and maintenance in the team.
• Have accountability for continuous system availability, avoiding critical situations, and working side by side with the team when they occur.
• Stay up to date with new technologies and tools, fostering experimentation and innovation with responsibility within the team.
• Contribute to a healthy environment and constantly improve team's engagement, contributing to team's growth by providing technical guidance and mentorship.
• Integrate and actively collaborate with other TLs (from other stream-aligned teams, platform teams, SRE team), seeking to exchange and discuss ideas, proposals, and learnings aimed at improving the Engineering area as a whole.
• Coordinate high or cross-impact deployments of their team across teams, ensuring clear communication of their impact.
• Collaborate with the team's Engineering Manager to adequately staff and expand the capacity of the team on both hiring and training initiatives.
• Anticipate and proactively communicate blockers, delays and cost ballooning of the work to the appropriate stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Communicate with empathy to both technical and non-technical roles, and influences through clarity, enabling alignment across multiple teams.
• Having the flexibility to adapt to the business context with a constructive and positive attitude.

 What we look for in you:

• Open to hire in our Buenos Aires offices, or to work remotely.
• 5+ years of technical leadership in software development teams, solving complex problems that demand the best performance.
• 12+ years of experience shipping high ­quality software.
• Solid knowledge of programming languages and paradigms, software and data modeling architecture and quality.
• Strong sense of empathy toward our product users, committed both to the quality of our products and to user satisfaction.
• Experience balancing perfection and pragmatism, as well as delivering iterative solutions that avoid overengineering.
• Advanced oral and written English skills.
• Strong communication skills. Proactively  work and communicate with multiple areas in the company as well as directly with customers when the situation demands.
• Candid, transparent and honest.
• Trust in your team and ability to effectively delegate work.
• Always willing to help and learn from others and by yourself.
• Have a good balance of determination, autonomy and collaboration.
• Seek continuous and rapid feedback.
• Work by our values: Learning Agile, Team Player, Garra, Above & Beyond.
• Know how to work in an agile and collaborative environment, and contribute to its improvement by ensuring we learn together.
• Strong interest and self driven understanding of our users, our customers, our market, and our product to challenge and co-create ideas and initiatives.

Technical skills we need for you:

• Excellent Javascript programming skills in modern frameworks like Vue.js and React.
• Extensive knowledge of web server-side oriented languages (PHP, Python, Golang, Javascript for Node.js).
• Knowledge of HTML5/CSS3 web application development.
• Knowledge of relational and document oriented databases (MySQL, MongoDB).
• Knowledge of web architectures, services and APIs concepts.
• Experience using design patterns.
• Excellent OOP knowledge.
• Experience with version control (git).
• Experience with Typescript and/or other type checking technologies.
• Experience with API design.
• Proficiency on quality practices such as unit test implementation, integration/contract testing, e2e, backend and frontend performance/load testing, CI quality gates, etc.
• Strong code refactoring skills.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills (e.g. UML).
• Proficiency on AI assisted software development workflows.
• Customer-first mindset.
• Experience with monitoring tools and metrics (Sentry, New Relic, Datadog, Kibana).
• Experience with bug tracking tools like Jira, Redmine, Bugzilla, etc.

Bonus points for having:

• Experience with iterative and incremental development cycles.
• Experience with PHP frameworks (Laravel, Zend, Symfony).
• Experience with complex, high-performance and high-availability apps.
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with functional programming.
• Experience with end-to-end tests.
• Experience with/Knowledge of engineering prompting, MCPs and Agents.
• Experience in complex refactoring of flagship products. 
• A great sense of humor (we sure do!).

 What we offer to you:

• A competitive compensation package that includes equity.
• Company laptop and phone reimbursement.
• Lots of room to own the role and implement new technologies that fuel automation of daily work
• Flexible time off policy to balance your work and life in a way that suits you best
• Being a part of an amazing, inclusive team that lives by our shared values and is committed to building the next phase of Stensul