Engineering Team Lead

Responsibilities

• Own delivery end-to-end across the team's full surface — mobile, web, and backend — and the business outcomes it drives.
• Partner closely with product, design, and growth — bring engineering reality into roadmaps early and evaluate UI/UX for the customer and the business, not just function.
• Run intake and prioritization: sequence work against business objectives, keep concurrent projects on track, and set realistic commitments — what ships, what waits, and why.
• Start big bets small: ship the thinnest slice that proves the idea, and grow it only on evidence.
• Lead and grow the team — 1:1s, feedback, and career development.
• Protect quality systematically — SLOs as guardrails, feature work balanced against maintenance, rigorous code review, and a release pipeline that catches regressions before customers do.
• Set technical direction and architecture — scope cross‑stack features to land as one coherent change, and pressure‑test plans for risk before the team commits.
• Build the factory, not just the product: embed AI and data into how the team works, so everyone ships faster, learns from every release, and stays pointed at impact.

Requirements

• A track record of leading engineers. 8+ years building software, including leading a team — formally or informally — and growing the engineers around you. This is the core of the role.
• Strong architecture and code review. This is how you lead — you set technical direction and strategy through sound system design and give the kind of code review that makes engineers better, spotting risk and design flaws before they ship.
• Full-stack technical judgment. Deep enough knowledge across mobile, web, and backend to review across the stack and evaluate what your team builds — even where you're not the one writing it.
• Deep iOS expertise. You've built and shipped production iOS apps with real depth (Swift/SwiftUI) — it's our lead platform and where most of our customers are — with solid Android (Kotlin/Jetpack) alongside. It's the technical foundation this role builds on.
• Stakeholder management and expectation setting. You partner cross-functionally with product, design, marketing, and partners — communicating trade-offs and keeping everyone aligned as priorities shift.
• A product and business mindset. You prioritize business objectives and measure success by value delivered — what moves the metrics — not by raw output or precise task estimates.
• Prioritization in a high-demand environment. With more good ideas than capacity, you triage competing requests, sequence against capacity, and say no well.
• High-traffic product sense. You've worked on consumer products at scale (e-commerce or similarly demanding), and you care about performance, reliability, and the customer experience that flows from them.
• AI fluency, clear written communication, and a collaborative default. You share context freely and disagree-and-commit when it's time to move.
• You don't need to tick every box. If most of this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams, with a strong focus on architecture, code review, and full-stack technical judgment across mobile, web, and backend platforms. Possesses a product and business mindset, prioritizing business objectives and stakeholder management to drive impactful outcomes.