Engineering Team Lead

Who you are

• This role is ideal for an experienced senior engineer ready to take on broader team leadership responsibilities—driving technical architecture, project delivery, and stakeholder alignment while helping guide a high-performing engineering pod
• You’ll bring deep software engineering experience, strong architectural judgment, and a product-focused mindset to the team responsible for the reusable services and controls that power the Grata platform
• You’ll help ensure these systems are reliable, composable, scalable, and safe for both users and agents
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex systems or platform initiatives
• Strong technical architecture skills, including experience designing scalable systems and guiding implementation across multiple engineers
• A track record of leading complex projects from planning through delivery, with clear milestones, ownership, and high-quality outcomes
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to align product, design, engineering, and senior stakeholders around decisions, tradeoffs, and delivery plans
• Experience providing technical leadership through mentorship, team coordination, execution planning, and cross-functional communication
• A hands-on engineering mindset and the ability to balance writing code with broader technical and team leadership responsibilities
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and facilitation skills
• Experience navigating competing priorities and driving alignment across senior stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

What the job involves

• We are hiring a Team Lead for our Intelligence Platform team in New York
• This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will help set direction and coordinate execution for a seven-person engineering pod while continuing to contribute to the codebase. The role does not include formal people-management responsibilities
• Lead technical architecture decisions for Intelligence Platform systems, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and delivery speed
• Drive project delivery across team initiatives, establishing clear milestones, ownership, timelines, and quality expectations
• Partner with product, design, and engineering stakeholders to translate business and product goals into pragmatic technical plans and measurable outcomes
• Set technical direction for a seven-person engineering pod by mentoring teammates, raising engineering standards, and helping the team execute effectively
• Actively contribute to the codebase while reviewing designs and implementations to ensure systems remain maintainable, extensible, secure, and production-ready
• Identify technical and delivery risks early, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and drive timely decisions and resolution across stakeholders
• Facilitate effective collaboration across the pod, helping remove blockers, clarify ownership, and maintain momentum on key initiatives

Benefits

• Culture and benefits built around work-life balance
• Extensive resources to support physical and mental health
• Employee assistance program
• Generous retirement plans
• Incentives for referring new colleagues
• Learning, training and mentoring programs
• Cross-functional projects
• Stretch assignments to help you progress
• Receive feedback and earn bonuses from peers & managers
• Employee bonding activities
• ESG and charitable team initiatives