Tech Lead Manager

🤓 As a Tech Lead Manager, the company expects you to perform the following tasks:

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.

✨ You are the person they are looking for if you have...

What We're Looking For

• 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

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