Engineering Lead (Typescript)

📍 Remote | 💼 4+ years, 2+ leading engineers | 💰 Market-competitive, USD-pegged

You’ve built a team, kept it shipping, and still push code to production every week.

🚀 Why Dataspecc

Since 2019 we’ve delivered 100+ projects. We run full engineering teams for US-based SaaS products and build AI-powered platforms end to end. As we grow, we need engineering leads who can stand up a team for a client, set the technical direction, and still be the strongest engineer in the room.

🧠 The Role

We’re hiring an engineering lead who both manages a team and ships code. You’ll hire and grow engineers, own delivery for a client, and be the person they trust when something goes sideways.

You’ll also design the systems and write a real share of the TypeScript yourself, across React, Next.js, Node and Supabase. Expect to spend more than half your time hands-on: architecture, features, code review and the hardest bugs. The rest goes to people and delivery. You’ll also set how your team works with Claude Code and Codex, so that faster never means sloppier.

🛠️ What You’ll Do

• Ship features end to end in TypeScript, from UI to API to database, and own the hardest parts yourself
• Design systems: data models, APIs, auth, background jobs, and the trade-offs between them
• Build and run production apps on Supabase: Postgres schema design, Row-Level Security, Auth, Edge Functions, Realtime and Storage
• Build the team: define roles, interview, hire, and onboard engineers so they ship in their first weeks
• Run delivery and grow people: plan the work, manage scope with the client, hold 1:1s and give honest feedback
• Set the bar for code review, testing, releases and AI-assisted development, and be the main technical contact for the client

⚙️ Our Stack

• Frontend: React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Node.js, Next.js API routes, Supabase Edge Functions
• Database: Supabase (Postgres, RLS, Auth, Realtime, Storage), Prisma or Drizzle
• Infra: Vercel, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions
• Workflow: Claude Code, Codex, Linear or Jira, GitHub

✅ Must-Haves (Non-Negotiable)

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, most of it in TypeScript
• 2+ years leading engineers: you’ve hired, run 1:1s, handled performance issues and grown people
• Strong frontend and backend skills: React/Next.js and Node.js at production depth, and you still code every week
• Real system design experience: you’ve designed services, schemas and APIs that held up under real users
• Hands-on Supabase in production, including Postgres schema design and Row-Level Security
• A strong problem solver who gets to the root cause and stays calm when projects get messy
• Claude Code and/or Codex in your daily workflow, with sharp judgment reviewing what they produce
• Clear written and spoken English, comfortable leading client conversations

⭐ Bonus Points

• You’ve grown a team from 0 to 5+ engineers
• You’ve rolled out AI coding agents across a team and measured the impact
• Experience with queues, caching, webhooks and other moving parts of distributed systems
• Agency or multi-client delivery experience
• You’ve worked directly with US clients or remote teams

🎁 What You Get

• USD-pegged salary
• Paid Claude and Codex subscriptions
• Your own team, and a real say in how we hire and how we build
• Real US SaaS products on modern stacks
• Annual performance-based reviews

📩 How to Apply

Apply at dataspecc.com/careers/engineering-lead and send us:

• Your CV
• Your GitHub or portfolio
• A short note on a team you led and a system you built with it
• A 2–3 minute video walking us through it

🎥 The video is required. Our engineering leads work directly with US clients, so how you explain your work matters as much as the work itself. Applications without a video will be rejected.