Lead Software Engineer $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 oversee quality and delivery for our application-level products. In this role, you will guide a compact team of 3-5 engineers developing educational applications that serve thousands of students.
Example products in your potential portfolio:
- Athena: AI-powered video and assessment generation delivering quantifiable learning results
- TeachTap: AI-driven platform bringing historical personalities to life through TikTok-style educational content
- TeachTales: Customized storytelling experiences designed to enhance reading comprehension
- TrashCat: Game-based learning platform that makes education entertaining and interactive
This position operates as a player-coach: 50% direct contribution to building sophisticated features, 50% mentoring and empowering your team members. You establish the quality benchmark, define technical patterns, conduct code reviews with instructional commentary, and facilitate engineer development. Team results are your accountability, not solely individual code contributions.
Lean team structure, substantial ownership, minimal administrative overhead. Your focus is technical leadership; personnel management is handled separately.
What you will be doing
- Developing sophisticated features that establish technical patterns for team adoption
- Conducting pull request reviews with comprehensive, instructional commentary
- Mentoring engineers through pair programming and constructive feedback
- Orchestrating technical workstreams and decomposing product requirements
- Defining quality benchmarks and ensuring team adherence
What you will NOT be doing
- Handling personnel management (recruitment, termination, performance evaluations, career development discussions)
- Contributing to platform-level infrastructure projects
- Participating in excessive meeting schedules
- Designing architecture without hands-on implementation
Candidate requirements
- Minimum 5 years of full-stack development experience
- Minimum 2 years in a leadership capacity (conducting code reviews, mentoring engineers, defining team standards)
- Proven history of delivering SaaS products to production
- Practical experience integrating AI tools into development processes
- Verified ability to elevate the skills and performance of fellow engineers
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