Technical 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 ensure excellence in quality and delivery for our application-level products. In this role, you will guide a compact team of 3-5 engineers who build educational applications serving thousands of students.
Potential products in your portfolio:
- Athena: AI-powered video and assessment generation that produces quantifiable learning gains
- TeachTap: AI technology animating historical personalities in a TikTok-style educational format
- TeachTales: Customized, immersive storytelling experiences that enhance reading comprehension
- TrashCat: Game-based learning that transforms education into an enjoyable, interactive activity
This position operates as a player-coach model: you will spend 50% of your time hands-on developing sophisticated features and 50% mentoring and empowering your team. You define quality expectations, create architectural patterns, conduct code reviews with instructional commentary, and cultivate engineer growth. Team results fall under your responsibility, not merely your individual 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 direction for your team
- Conducting pull request reviews with comprehensive, instructional commentary
- Mentoring engineers through pair programming and constructive feedback
- Organizing technical efforts and decomposing requirements into actionable tasks
- Defining quality benchmarks and ensuring team adherence
What you will NOT be doing
- Handling personnel management (recruitment, termination, performance evaluations, career development discussions)
- Building platform-level infrastructure components
- Attending excessive meetings
- 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
- Practical experience integrating AI tools into development processes
- Confirmed ability to elevate the skills and performance of fellow engineers
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