Team Lead Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience in software development and/or data engineering.
• At least 2 years in a technical leadership or management capacity.
• Deep understanding of SQL, data modeling, and analytics/reporting.
• Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated success leading technical teams and mentoring engineers at varied seniority levels.
• Experience with or strong enthusiasm for AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to connect engineering priorities to product and business outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Deep understanding of microservice architecture, RESTful API design, distributed systems, and modern frontend frameworks.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, Kotlin, and TypeScript/React, with the ability and willingness to learn and work across the stack.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a cross-functional engineering and data team, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
• Own end-to-end delivery for the squad’s product area, from product discovery and design validation through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release monitoring.
• Own the stack and collaborate with systems architects to design an effective data and analytics platform.
• Write and review code, architect solutions, understand the codebase, make informed tradeoffs, and unblock the team.
• Partner with Product to validate technical feasibility, challenge unrealistic scope, and advocate for quality and stability alongside new features.
• Balance feature work with bugs, technical debt, performance, and reliability, and work with Product leadership to allocate engineering time to customer stability and performance needs.
• Drive architectural decisions that balance innovation, scalability, and delivery speed.
• Promote engineering best practices, including clean architecture, testing, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Help the team break down work, manage workflow, and enable design, engineering, and QA to operate in parallel.
• Champion code quality through design reviews, code reviews, and robust CI/CD pipelines using Docker, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes.
• Define completion standards so work is tested, stable, monitored, and maintainable.
• Coach engineers on career growth, system design, and collaboration, providing immediate and work-grounded feedback.
• Drive adoption of AI and agentic coding tools within the squad, lead by example, partner with the Platform team on standards and guardrails, and help the team use AI effectively.
• Build an inclusive, motivated team culture centered on transparency, ownership, and impact.
• Collaborate with recruiting to attract and retain engineering talent.
• Establish performance goals, track key metrics, and ensure operational excellence in delivery.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off, with employees encouraged to use it, plus 10 company holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus an HSA match.
• 401(k) match of 100% up to 3% of the employee’s contribution, with immediate eligibility and 100% vesting.
• Access to Impact Suite and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Paid new parent leave and birthing parent leave.
• Company-paid basic life and AD&D insurance, plus long- and short-term disability coverage.
• Nectar peer-to-peer employee recognition program.
• Company events, including monthly company-wide meetings and summer parties.
• ERG committees focused on continuing education, community outreach, recruiting, onboarding, and more.
• Fully stocked kitchen.