Engineering Lead

BizzyCar

About The Position

BizzyCar is hiring a hands-on Engineering Lead to lead product-aligned engineering teams across API, Web, and Mobile, spanning four business units. This builder-manager role owns delivery, priorities, and technical direction, balancing daily execution with long-term roadmap delivery. The lead maintains visible, well-organized work in Jira and Confluence, takes direct technical ownership of a core product or feature area, and communicates team priorities, risks, and progress to engineering leadership and other stakeholders. The role works closely with peer Engineering Leads, Product, Customer Success, and the VP of Engineering to coordinate cross-team dependencies and align sprint priorities, especially during team transitions, ownership handoffs, and changes in capacity. The Engineering Lead also contributes hands-on code, guides releases and deployments, participates in on-call and incident response, and mentors engineers. BizzyCar offers a stated salary of $170,000, equity, and potential bonus, along with medical, dental, vision, and paid time off. The company describes a collaborative environment, growth and professional development opportunities, and the opportunity to contribute at a high-growth automotive technology company. The company does not provide sponsorship or other support for U.S. employment-based immigration benefits.

Requirements

Strong, hands-on production experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
Strong, hands-on production experience with Angular.
Experience leading engineers across multiple teams or product areas, ideally spanning API, Web, and Mobile.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading engineers in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment as a lead, manager, or senior individual contributor with informal leadership responsibility.
Strong hands-on technical ability, including writing and reviewing production code.
Power-user experience with Jira and Confluence, including sprint boards, epics, cross-board linking, and living documentation.
Track record of owning a feature area or product surface end-to-end, from scoping through production support.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including translating technical details for executives and business priorities into engineering tasks.
Experience managing ambiguity, reprioritizing work, absorbing scope from departing teammates, or realigning teams after leadership or structural changes.
Comfort with incident response and writing postmortems that lead to process improvements.
Solid understanding of Node.js and modern web/API development.
AWS or equivalent cloud experience and ability to evaluate and recommend technology solutions.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub-based code review workflows.
Experience with AI/LLM-integrated features or data pipelines.

Responsibilities

Lead API, Web, and Mobile engineers across four business units, setting technical direction and aligning priorities.
Run day-to-day team execution, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and standups; scope and estimate tickets and remove blockers.
Maintain the team’s Jira board and link it to the organization-wide Engineering Priorities board for accurate status visibility.
Take hands-on technical ownership of a core product or feature area from requirements and architecture through code review and deployment.
Partner with the VP of Engineering on capacity planning, reprioritization, and ownership transfers as scope or team composition changes.
Write and maintain release notes and technical documentation in Confluence for each release cycle, and keep team runbooks current.
Coordinate with Product, Customer Success, and other engineering teams to surface dependencies and advance initiatives.
Conduct code reviews, move changes through the deployment pipeline, and participate in on-call and incident response, including root-cause analysis and postmortems.
Mentor engineers, provide regular feedback, support career growth, and promote ownership and continuous improvement.
Represent the team in engineering leadership syncs and provide status updates to the VP of Engineering, CTO, and other executives.
Identify and drive process or tooling improvements, such as reporting automation, sprint dashboards, and documentation standards.