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.

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.

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