Engineering Team Lead

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead a small engineering group while staying hands-on in the codebase, owning technical direction, team processes and delivery. The role blends architecture decisions for a performance-sensitive distributed system with mentoring, prioritization and hiring as the team grows.

What you'll do

• Lead the engineering team, review code and take ownership of team output.
• Make architectural decisions for a latency-sensitive distributed system.
• Establish engineering best practices and processes, and mentor engineers.
• Prioritize tasks so engineering work supports business objectives.
• Contribute directly to the codebase for roughly a quarter of your time.
• Hire a significant number of engineers over the next year.
• Partner with senior leadership on the engineering roadmap and own its execution.
• Improve developer productivity and system observability.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• Experience as a staff engineer or team lead who has guided a team through architectural and technical decisions.
• Prior experience managing several engineers at a fast-growing startup.
• A history of shipping demanding systems where performance and dependability mattered.
• Depth in cloud engineering and distributed systems.
• Backend development experience with Python and Postgres.
• Comfort contributing on the frontend when needed.
• Strong interpersonal skills and enjoyment of coordinating with others.
• Curiosity, attention to detail and a systems view of how an engineering organization works.
• Willingness to work on-site four days a week.

Bonus points

• Background in a company building AI-driven conversational products.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 240,000 to 260,000 per year
• Equity

Location and work model

• San Francisco, California, United States
• On-site, 4 days per week in office with 1 work-from-home day possible
• Full-time