Tech Lead Manager

We're looking for a Tech Lead Manager to lead a squad of 4–8 engineers. This is a player-coach role: you'll stay hands-on technically (40–60% individual contributor work) while owning your team's delivery, quality, and people development.

At this level, you're the first-line manager for your squad—running 1:1s, giving feedback, coaching careers, and building a culture of ownership and psychological safety. You're also still in the code, making technical decisions and shipping alongside your team.

What You'll Do

People & Team (40–60%)

• Build the team — Hire and onboard E1–E3 engineers

• Develop your people — Run effective 1:1s, give direct feedback, write performance reviews, and coach career growth

• Foster culture — Build psychological safety, ownership, and accountability within the squad

• Shield the team — Remove blockers, handle noise, and keep the squad focused on delivery

Technical (40–60%)

• Stay hands-on — Write code, review PRs, and contribute to technical decisions

• Own delivery — Ensure the squad delivers on commitments with high quality and predictable velocity

• Drive quality — Champion testing, observability, and engineering best practices

• Handle incidents — Own squad-level incidents and postmortems

• Leverage AI — Use AI tools daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging; teach the squad effective AI usage

Planning & Alignment

• Run the squad — Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives

• Align with product — Partner with PMs and designers to translate requirements into deliverable work

• Communicate up — Represent the squad in planning, cross-team syncs, and leadership discussions

What We're Looking For

Experience

• 4+ years in software engineering

• 1+ years managing or leading a team (formal or informal)

Technical

• Strong technical background—you can guide architecture discussions and code reviews

• Familiar with modern development practices: CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), observability

• Comfortable with our stack or similar: Java/Spring, Angular/React, PostgreSQL, AWS, DataDog

• Still enjoys being in the code and staying technically sharp

AI Fluency

• Uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging

• Teaches squad effective AI usage and best practices

• Experiments with AI to accelerate team delivery and quality

Leadership & People

• Experience running 1:1s and giving direct, kind feedback

• Track record of developing engineers and helping them grow

• Servant leadership mindset—you enable others to do their best work

• Builds trust, psychological safety, and ownership culture

Communication

• Clear communicator with engineers, PMs, and leadership

• Sets expectations and provides continuous feedback

• Working knowledge of English for cross-team collaboration (required)

Mindset

• Comfortable balancing people and technical responsibilities

• Thrives in ambiguity; makes smart trade-offs with incomplete information

• Cares about both business outcomes and engineering excellence

Nice to Have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or high-growth startups

• Background scaling or building teams from scratch

• Familiarity with engineering career frameworks and coaching practices

• On-call and incident management experience

Our Stack

Java/Spring, Python, Go · Angular, React · PostgreSQL, MongoDB · AWS (ECS, Lambda) · DataDog · Pulumi · Jenkins