Software Engineering Team Lead

Travefy•Lincoln, NE

15h•$140,000 - $185,000•Remote

About The Position

Travefy is seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead to play a pivotal leadership role on a cross-functional squad. This role combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, mentorship, and delivery ownership. The individual will write and ship code approximately 60 percent of the time, while also guiding the team's technical direction and ensuring consistent delivery. Team Leads at Travefy lead from within, sharing technical leadership with another senior engineer, managing a small number of direct reports, and partnering closely with Product and Design to translate priorities into high-quality, shipped work. The role involves setting the engineering bar through personal contributions, removing blockers, addressing technical debt, and fostering the growth of engineers within the team. This position is ideal for a seasoned full-stack engineer who enjoys building, leads by example, and is motivated by helping a team achieve its best work.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in software engineering, including time in a technical leadership role on a cross-functional team.
Demonstrated ability to lead a team through complex technical problems by building consensus, not just issuing directives.
Experience building customer-facing SPAs and backend services using modern frameworks (experience with AWS, C#, React, or Ember.js is a plus, but not required).
Proven ability to balance hands-on engineering with coordination, delivery, and leadership responsibilities.
Experience mentoring and leveling up other engineers through pairing, feedback, and coaching.
Strong understanding of agile practices, lean delivery, and iterative product development.
Excellent communication skills, comfortable tailoring technical ideas to diverse audiences.
Able to thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with a high sense of ownership.
Authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a startup or fast-growing environment.
Familiarity with distributed systems or service-oriented architectures.
A track record of improving engineering process, quality, or team collaboration.
Emphasis on inclusion, psychological safety, and team culture.
Strong documentation and async-first communication habits.

Responsibilities

Lead by doing, staying hands-on while ensuring the squad ships.
Write, review, and ship high-quality code across the full stack for user-facing features and platform improvements.
Keep individual contributor work a core part of the role, setting the standard through thoughtful implementation and code review.
Help the squad deliver on its goals by managing work intake, sequencing priorities, and removing blockers early.
Guide architecture and technical direction alongside another senior engineer.
Shape system design and architectural decisions, and facilitate sound, well-socialized technical choices.
Advocate for engineering priorities like tech debt, tooling, and delivery efficiency across teams.
Ensure engineering gives constructive input on cost, complexity, and risk, while trusting Product and Design to lead on solution ideation.
Grow the team through coaching, feedback, and advocacy.
Mentor engineers on the squad and across the organization through pairing, design guidance, and code review.
Support a small number of direct reports with regular feedback and opportunities for growth.
Foster an inclusive, psychologically safe environment where engineers feel comfortable sharing ideas and challenging decisions.
Connect disciplines and keep everyone aligned.
Partner with Product and Design to align on scope, trade-offs, and feasibility.
Communicate technical direction, progress, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Lead the team through problems with consensus-driven problem-solving rather than solving around them.