Tech Lead Manager | Growth & Transformation

Red Ventures • Charlotte, NC

13h • $130,000 - $262,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

Red Ventures Growth & Transformation (RVGT) helps partners grow through proprietary distribution, data models, AI-enabled applications, and strategic client partnerships. The organization is investing in a Growth Operating System of reusable workflows, agents, context layers, and governance mechanisms to help teams and partners drive growth more efficiently and at greater scale.

As Tech Lead Manager, you will lead a team of engineers while building platforms, data pipelines, and AI-enabled applications that support client acquisition and digital operations. The position combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, including developing agentic systems and digital acquisition and conversion experiences, growing the team, and partnering cross-functionally. The role requires a hybrid schedule and is based in the South Charlotte, North Carolina, or New York, New York, office. Visa sponsorship or transfer and corp-to-corp work are not available.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of software engineering experience, including at least 1 year leading engineers as a manager, tech lead, or through mentorship.
• Strong, current hands-on skills with React, Next.js, Go, and AWS, and experience with infrastructure in Terraform.
• Experience building digital acquisition and conversion experiences, such as site hosting, checkout and application flows, partner integrations, and experimentation.
• Experience building agentic systems, with evaluation sets and guardrails running in CI; coding agents are a default workflow, and the candidate can teach this approach.
• Working knowledge of cloud and data platform security, including IAM and secrets, API authentication (OAuth/OIDC), and pipelines carrying identity, attribution, and consent signals.
• Experience designing for contractual obligations such as SLAs, data handling, and audit, as well as OWASP, WCAG, and GDPR/CCPA requirements.
• Clear writing for business and technical readers and comfort representing engineering in occasional partner-facing settings.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing for OWASP, WCAG, and GDPR/CCPA requirements, ideally in financial services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate marketing-focused acquisition systems using React, Next.js, Go, AWS, and Terraform.
• Build agentic workflows and AI-native features end to end, using coding agents as a default workflow.
• Break large problems into sequenced specifications with interfaces, constraints, and test strategies, and review agent-generated plans.
• Build delivery capabilities, including CI/CD, automated tests and evaluations, and telemetry; maintain specifications and decision records.
• Include security, privacy, consent, and accessibility requirements in specifications, and design for partner SLAs and audit requirements.
• Lead technical execution for the team and influence architecture decisions across the team.
• Lead adoption of agentic workflows, including how to plan, verify, and ship with agents.
• Partner with product, data, and operations teams to turn priorities into scoped work with clear success metrics and baselines.
• Plan and prioritize team delivery, manage risk, and keep stakeholders informed about progress and trade-offs.
• Participate in partner working sessions as the technical representative, including deployments and incidents, and present results in business terms.
• Mentor engineers and build trust across product, data, and operations teams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Holiday pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid parental bonding benefit
• Flexible paid time off; full-time employees accrue 20 days for a full calendar year, increasing to 25 days after five years of service

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed