Technical Lead $200,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
We seek Technical Team Leads to own quality and execution across our app-level products. You will guide a compact team of 3-5 engineers who build educational applications serving thousands of students.
Example products in your scope:
- Athena: AI-generated videos and assessments delivering quantifiable academic results
- TeachTap: AI-powered platform bringing historical figures to life through a TikTok-style learning interface
- TeachTales: Magical, personalized storytelling designed to enhance comprehension
- TrashCat: Gamified educational content that makes learning engaging and fun
This role balances player and coach responsibilities: you will spend 50% of your time developing complex features hands-on, and 50% enabling and mentoring your team. You define quality expectations, create technical patterns, deliver instructive code reviews, and support engineer development. Team delivery is your accountability, not solely individual output.
Compact team size, substantial ownership, minimal overhead. Your focus is technical leadership; HR responsibilities rest elsewhere.
What you will be doing
- Developing complex features that establish technical patterns for the team
- Conducting PR reviews with comprehensive, instructional feedback
- Mentoring engineers via pairing sessions and targeted feedback
- Organizing technical efforts and decomposing requirements into actionable work
- Defining quality benchmarks and ensuring adherence across the team
What you will NOT be doing
- People management responsibilities (hiring, terminations, performance reviews, career planning)
- Platform-level or infrastructure engineering
- Excessive meeting attendance
- Architecture design detached from hands-on implementation
Candidate requirements
- Minimum 5 years of full-stack development experience
- Minimum 2 years in a leadership capacity (code review, engineer mentorship, defining team practices)
- Proven history of delivering SaaS products
- Practical experience integrating AI tools into development processes
- Verified capability to elevate and develop other engineers
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