Tech Lead - Product Engineering

About Stensul Stensul is the Governed Creation™ Platform for enterprise marketing teams that need to create campaigns quickly, safely, and at scale. We bring creation, collaboration, and control together in one connected platform, combining AI-enabled creation, no-code production, embedded governance, and seamless integrations across the marketing tech stack. The result: faster output, lower costs, reduced risk, and work that stays consistently on brand. At Stensul, we’re just as intentional about how we work as about what we build. We’re a people-first team that values inclusive collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to help define the future of marketing creation, we’d love to meet you. Why This Role Matters We're looking for a Technical Lead to own the technical direction of a team working across platform activation and asset delivery, two domains where reliability and flexibility directly shape how enterprise customers experience our product every day. Reporting to one of our Engineering Managers, you'll navigate the tension between technical sustainability and business urgency, making architectural decisions that compound over time in a B2B platform serving large, demanding organizations. If you care as much about how a team works as about what it builds, and you'd rather model good practices than mandate them, this is the kind of role where you'll thrive. What You'll Do Technical Leadership Lead architectural and technical discussions within the team, facilitating clear decision-making and documenting tradeoffs and risks. Guide the technical direction of the team while ensuring alignment with Stensul’s broader engineering architecture. Promote engineering best practices including secure SDLC, data privacy, observability, and system reliability. Hands-on Engineering Contribute directly to the codebase and lead by example through high-quality engineering practices. Improve system architecture, scalability, performance, and maintainability. Drive complex technical initiatives and refactoring efforts. Team Development Mentor and support engineers in their technical growth. Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and technical excellence . Encourage ownership across the team—from idea to production and long-term maintenance. Provide technical input and perspective to hiring and team growth decisions, partnering with the Engineering Manager who owns staffing and capacity planning Cross-Team Collaboration Work closely with other Tech Leads, platform teams, and SRE to align on architecture and engineering standards. Coordinate cross-team initiatives and high-impact deployments. Contribute to improving engineering processes and practices across the organization. Operational Excellence Own system availability and reliability, taking accountability when critical situations arise and leading the team through them. Lead and participate in incident reviews, post-mortems, and continuous improvement efforts. Proactively identify and communicate risks, blockers, and technical challenges. Technical Challenges You'll Help Solve Some of the problems you’ll work on include: Scaling a platform that enables marketing teams to produce complex campaigns quickly and reliably. Designing scalable APIs and integrations with major marketing platforms. Improving system performance and reliability across distributed services. Evolving architecture to support growing product capabilities and customer demands. Simplifying complex workflows so non-technical users can build sophisticated marketing assets. Our Core Tech Stack Frontend: Vue.js, TypeScript Backend: PHP/Laravel, Node.js, Python Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB Observability: Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, Kibana CI/CD & Version Control: Git-based workflows What We’re Looking For Experience 10+ years of experience building and shipping high-quality software. 5+ years of technical leadership within engineering teams. Strong experience designing scalable web applications and APIs. Solid understanding of software architecture, data modeling, and design patterns. Experience working in modern web development environments. Experience leading large refactoring initiatives in complex systems. Technical Skills Strong JavaScript expertise and experience with frameworks like React or Vue.js . Experience with server-side languages such as PHP, Node.js, Golang, or Python . Strong knowledge of web architecture, APIs, and distributed systems . Experience with relational and document databases (MySQL, MongoDB). Strong testing and quality practices including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, and frameworks. Strong refactoring skills and commitment to code quality. Experience with monitoring and observability tools. Proficiency with AI-assisted software development workflows. Currently and actively working hands-on with AI agents as part of your day-to-day engineering practice. Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes . Experience with version control systems (Git). Leadership & Collaboration Strong communication skills across both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery. Experience mentoring engineers and helping teams grow. Comfortable leading technical discussions and influencing architectural decisions. Nice to Have Experience building high-performance or high-availability applications. Experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or Zend . Experience with functional programming concepts. Hands-on experience building with or integrating AI agents and tool orchestration frameworks.. A great sense of humor (we have one too). What We Offer Competitive compensation package including equity Company laptop Flexible time off policy The opportunity to lead technical decision-making and shape the platform’s architecture A collaborative and inclusive engineering culture The chance to help build the next phase of the Stensul platform Our Values We look for people who embody our values: Learning Agile – constantly improving and adapting Team Player – collaborating and supporting one another Garra – determination and resilience Above & Beyond – striving for excellence If you're passionate about building scalable software, mentoring engineers, and shaping the architecture of a growing platform, we’d love to talk.