- Raydar
- San Francisco, CA
- Full-Time
- 35 days ago
- $240,000–$260,000 / year
Engineering Team Lead.
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Engineering Team Lead: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This is a software engineering leadership role for an experienced technical lead guiding a growing team working on a performance-sensitive distributed system.
- The Person:The person will lead the engineering team, review code, make architectural decisions, mentor and hire engineers, prioritize work, execute the roadmap, and improve developer productivity and system observability.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has guided engineers through architectural and technical decisions, with depth in cloud engineering and distributed systems, backend experience with Python and Postgres, and frontend comfort.
About the role
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead a small engineering group while staying hands-on in the codebase, owning technical direction, team processes and delivery. The role blends architecture decisions for a performance-sensitive distributed system with mentoring, prioritization and hiring as the team grows.
What you'll do
- Lead the engineering team, review code and take ownership of team output.
- Make architectural decisions for a latency-sensitive distributed system.
- Establish engineering best practices and processes, and mentor engineers.
- Prioritize tasks so engineering work supports business objectives.
- Contribute directly to the codebase for roughly a quarter of your time.
- Hire a significant number of engineers over the next year.
- Partner with senior leadership on the engineering roadmap and own its execution.
- Improve developer productivity and system observability.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Experience as a staff engineer or team lead who has guided a team through architectural and technical decisions.
- Prior experience managing several engineers at a fast-growing startup.
- A history of shipping demanding systems where performance and dependability mattered.
- Depth in cloud engineering and distributed systems.
- Backend development experience with Python and Postgres.
- Comfort contributing on the frontend when needed.
- Strong interpersonal skills and enjoyment of coordinating with others.
- Curiosity, attention to detail and a systems view of how an engineering organization works.
- Willingness to work on-site four days a week.
Bonus points
- Background in a company building AI-driven conversational products.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 240,000 to 260,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site, 4 days per week in office with 1 work-from-home day possible
- Full-time