Engineering Team Lead (.Net) (LATAM)

Lateral Group•New York, NY

37d•Remote

About The Position

As an Engineering Team Lead (.NET) at Lateral, you will guide a backend engineering team building and scaling a fast-growing online marketplace powering millions of users, products, and real-time interactions. You will own technical direction, team health, delivery quality, and hands-on contributions.

Requirements

8+ years of backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a lead or senior role.
Deep expertise in C#/.NET, API design, distributed systems, and integration patterns.
Strong system design skills, able to simplify complexity and articulate trade-offs.
Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
A quality mindset: testing, automation, defensive programming.
Excellent communication and leadership skills - calm, clear, structured.
Strong ownership and delivery discipline.
Frontend knowledge

Nice To Haves

Experience with marketplaces, commerce systems, or large-scale platforms.
Background with event-driven systems, queues, caching layers, or microservices.
Experience with CI/CD, observability, and production troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Act as one of the primary technical points of contact for the client, representing the engineering team with clarity, confidence, and professionalism.
Communicate progress, risks, trade-offs, and technical decisions proactively, before they become problems.
Translate complex engineering concepts into clear language that helps non-technical stakeholders make informed decisions.
Build strong, trust-based relationships with product managers, project managers, architects, designers, and cross-functional leaders.
Facilitate alignment across engineering, product, and business teams to ensure requirements are understood, feasible, and testable.
Help shape roadmap discussions by providing realistic estimations, identifying dependencies, and highlighting technical opportunities or constraints.
Navigate ambiguity with calmness and structure, driving clarity, unblocking decisions, and ensuring everyone stays aligned.
Represent Lateral’s standards of quality, integrity, and craftsmanship in all client interactions.
Ensure backend, frontend, QA, DevOps, and data teams are aligned on expectations, integration points, and timelines.
Communicate architectural intent clearly to ensure consistent implementation across teams and services.
Set the tone for how the team communicates: concise, factual, respectful, and solution-oriented.
Bring visibility to issues early, propose paths forward, and collaborate openly to resolve them.
Support, mentor, and coach backend developers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical planning.
Set engineering standards and hold the team to them.
Ensure clarity, alignment, and accountability across sprint cycles.
Design and implement core backend features in C#/.NET.
Architect and evolve services, modules, and integrations across a distributed system.
Support API design, data modeling, performance improvements, and production diagnostics.
Partner closely with QA Automation Engineers to ensure robust integration test coverage.
Drive technical excellence across the team: reliability, scalability, observability.
Ensure releases are predictable, stable, and aligned with business needs.
Translate requirements into technical plans.
Identify risks early and propose pragmatic solutions.
Communicate clearly with client partners, both technical and non-technical.
Build reusable patterns, tools, and internal libraries.
Shape onboarding, documentation, and guidelines.
Help evolve culture, processes, and collaboration across disciplines.

Benefits

Real Impact: You’ll work on meaningful products that make a measurable difference - from healthcare and commerce to sustainability and next-gen tech.
Remote-First, Office Friendly: Work from wherever you’re most productive - whether that’s your home, a co-working space, or one of our offices. We’re a remote-first company, but if you’re near an office, you’re welcome to drop in, collaborate in person, or work onsite regularly.
We prioritize async collaboration, respect your time zone, and focus on outcomes over hours.
An Outstanding Team: Talented, kind, and hard-working people who care deeply about their craft - and about each other. No egos. No politics. Just professionals doing their best work.
Growth: You’ll be supported in growing your craft, exploring new paths, and stepping into greater responsibility - at your own pace
A Culture of Excellence: We care deeply about doing the right thing - for our clients, our team, and ourselves. No burnout. No crunch. Just high-quality work, delivered sustainably.
Variety & Stability: We’re profitable, independent, and over a decade strong. Yet every project brings a fresh challenge. You’ll never be bored here.

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