Software Engineering Team Lead $200,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
We are seeking Technical Team Leads to own quality and delivery for our application-layer products. In this role, you will guide a compact team of 3-5 engineers developing educational applications serving thousands of students.
Example products include:
- Athena: AI-powered video and assessment generation delivering quantifiable academic results
- TeachTap: AI-driven platform bringing historical personalities to life through a TikTok-style learning interface
- TeachTales: Customized, immersive storytelling designed to enhance reading comprehension
- TrashCat: Game-based learning environment making education engaging and enjoyable
This position is a hybrid player-coach model: 50% direct contribution to complex feature development, 50% mentorship and team enablement. You define quality expectations, create technical patterns, conduct instructional code reviews, and support engineer development. Accountability extends to collective team results, not solely individual output.
Lean team structure, substantial ownership, minimal process overhead. Technical leadership is your domain; people management is handled separately.
What you will be doing
- Developing sophisticated features that establish technical patterns for the team
- Conducting pull request reviews with comprehensive, instructional commentary
- Mentoring engineers through pair programming and targeted feedback
- Organizing technical initiatives and decomposing feature requirements
- Defining quality benchmarks and ensuring consistent team adherence
What you will NOT be doing
- Handling personnel management (recruitment, termination, performance evaluations, career planning)
- Developing platform or infrastructure-level systems
- Attending prolonged meeting cycles
- Designing architecture in isolation from implementation work
Candidate requirements
- Minimum 5 years of full-stack development experience
- Minimum 2 years in a technical leadership capacity (conducting code reviews, mentoring developers, defining team standards)
- Proven history of delivering SaaS products to production
- Practical experience integrating AI tools into development processes
- Verified capability to elevate the skills and performance of fellow engineers
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