Engineering Lead $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 delivery for our application-level products. You will manage a compact team of 3-5 engineers developing educational applications that serve thousands of students.
Potential products include:
- Athena: AI-powered video and testing platform delivering quantifiable academic results
- TeachTap: AI-driven platform bringing historical personalities to life through TikTok-style learning
- TeachTales: Customized storytelling experiences that enhance reading comprehension
- TrashCat: Game-based learning platform making education engaging and enjoyable
This role operates as a player-coach position: 50% direct contribution building sophisticated features, 50% mentoring and empowering your team. You define quality expectations, create technical patterns, conduct code reviews with instructional feedback, and facilitate engineer development. You own team results, not merely individual output.
Lean team structure, substantial ownership, minimal bureaucracy. You provide technical leadership; people management is handled separately.
What you will be doing
- Developing sophisticated features that establish technical patterns for your team
- Conducting PR reviews with comprehensive, instructional feedback
- Mentoring engineers through pair programming and constructive feedback
- Orchestrating technical work and decomposing requirements
- Defining quality benchmarks and ensuring team adherence
What you will NOT be doing
- Handling personnel management (recruitment, termination, performance evaluations, career development discussions)
- Developing platform-level infrastructure
- Attending excessive meetings
- Designing architecture without hands-on implementation
Candidate requirements
- Minimum 5 years of full-stack development experience
- Minimum 2 years in a leadership capacity (conducting code reviews, mentoring developers, defining team practices)
- Proven history of delivering SaaS products
- Experience integrating AI tools into development workflows
- Verified ability to elevate other engineers' skills and performance
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