Engineering Team Leader

About the Role

Lead a product team of engineers, fostering growth and driving optimized execution while actively contributing to product development.

Responsibilities

• Manage a product team of 3-5 backend and frontend engineers.
• Actively participate in product development, dedicating approximately 30% of time to management tasks.
• Lead hiring and onboarding processes for your team.
• Foster team dynamics, provide continuous feedback, and support individual career growth.
• Guide and coach team members to achieve their best.
• Redesign engineering work shipping with autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
• Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify).
• Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives.
• Utilize verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Extensive experience with Frontend (React, JS, ES6, Jest) or Backend (Elixir/Phoenix).
• Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping secure, reliable, and scalable production systems.
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows and improving them through iteration.
• Ability to think in systems: define specs clearly, break down plans, instrument verification, and close the loop on quality.
• Solid communication and organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Focused on efficient processes with a kind, people-first approach.
• Ability to inspire others and instill confidence.
• Good understanding of team dynamics.
• Commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with AI and automation capabilities.
• Familiarity with asynchronous work environments.