Lead Software Engineer $200,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
We are seeking Technical Team Leads to oversee quality and product delivery for our application-level offerings. In this role, you will guide a compact team of 3-5 engineers as they develop educational applications serving thousands of students.
Potential products in your portfolio:
- Athena: AI-powered video and assessment generation that produces quantifiable learning outcomes
- TeachTap: AI-driven platform bringing historical personalities to life through a TikTok-inspired educational interface
- TeachTales: Customized storytelling experiences designed to enhance reading comprehension
- TrashCat: Game-based learning platform that makes education entertaining and interactive
This position operates as a player-coach hybrid: 50% direct contribution to complex feature development, 50% mentoring and empowering your engineering team. You establish quality benchmarks, define architectural patterns, conduct code reviews with instructional commentary, and facilitate engineer development. Team results fall under your accountability, extending beyond individual code contributions.
Lean team structure, substantial ownership, minimal administrative overhead. You provide technical leadership; people management responsibilities are handled separately.
What you will be doing
- Developing sophisticated features that establish technical direction for your team
- Conducting pull request reviews with comprehensive, instructional commentary
- Mentoring engineers through pair programming sessions and constructive feedback
- Orchestrating technical initiatives and decomposing product requirements
- Defining quality benchmarks and verifying team adherence
What you will NOT be doing
- Handling personnel management (recruitment, termination, performance evaluations, career development discussions)
- Building platform-layer infrastructure components
- Attending excessive meeting schedules
- Designing architecture in isolation without hands-on implementation
Candidate requirements
- Minimum 5 years of full-stack software development experience
- Minimum 2 years in technical leadership capacity (conducting code reviews, mentoring developers, defining team standards)
- Proven history of delivering SaaS products to market
- Practical experience integrating AI tools into development processes
- Verifiable success in advancing the skills and capabilities of fellow engineers
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