Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

3) Team Lead Software Engineer

(growth path → Head of Engineering)

🌍 Remote (U.S.–based, EST preferred) | Full-Time, Contract-to-Hire

Role Overview

Manage a squad of 4-6 engineers, deliver quarterly OKRs, and partner with the CEO on product & platform strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Run sprint rituals, unblock teammates, and uphold engineering SLAs.
• Own architecture reviews, security reviews, and incident response.
• Define coding standards, DORA metrics, and on-call rotations.
• Balance tech-debt vs. velocity; champion continuous refactor culture.
• Hire, onboard, and coach engineers toward seniority milestones.

Must-Haves

• All Senior-Engineer Musts, plus:
• 2+ years leading teams or pods; setting roadmaps & delivery forecasts
• Demonstrated ownership of Next.js 15 edge platform budgets & uptime (99.9%+)
• Experience rolling out org-wide CI policies, branch protections, dependency scanning
• Designed company-wide rate-limiting & caching strategies (Upstash/Redis, edge KV)
• Established usage-based billing meters & observability dashboards (Grafana, Datadog, or Vercel Analytics)

Nice-to-Have

• Driving adoption of Inngest / Trigger.dev across multiple codebases
• Migration leadership (e.g., Postgres → Drizzle + Supabase Edge)

Bonus Points

• Built AISDK-powered features or AI-assisted code-review bots
• Orchestrated long-running idempotent workflows with compensating transactions
• Rolled out cost-analysis tooling (per-request $ cost, edge compute budgets)

How to Apply

• Apply through our LinkedIn form with a short note on a scaling or architecture challenge you solved that’s relevant to the role. 🚫 No agencies; direct applicants only.