Software Engineering Lead

Who you are

• You possess strong technical acumen, people management skills, and a deep understanding of product business value
• With years of experience building and delivering web-enabled SaaS products, you're passionate about mentoring engineers
• A collaborative, motivated self-starter, you're ready to lead and bring your authentic self to work
• You also love cross-functional collaboration with product, design, infrastructure, and customer teams on key projects
• 7+ years of SaaS software engineering experience, ideally in contemporary tech stacks, with direct involvement in complex and stable backend infrastructure
• 3+ years in people management leading a software team, with experience hiring, mentoring, and creating career opportunities for your team
• Hands-on experience with cross-functional team leadership with technical and customer-facing feature delivery
• Strong understanding of testing and deploying systems in multicloud / multitenant environments
• Experience architecting systems that integrate agentic and generative AI capabilities
• Familiarity with our tech stack - including Typescript, React, Redux, Node.js, Golang, MongoDB, Postgres, and Docker
• Active use of AI tooling in your own practice, with a point of view on how it changes the way teams build
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience

What the job involves

• Own delivery for your team's surface area — scoping, sequencing, unblocking, and making the trade-off calls between speed and durability. As a product threaded team, collaborate closely with product and design
• Work alongside tech leads to set technical direction and guide architectural decisions
• Maintain a strong operational health: on-call, incident response, and paying down tech debt before it becomes a tax on velocity
• Cultivate an AI-first development culture and continuously raise the bar on velocity and quality
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team capable of operating with high autonomy and quality
• Establish engineering standards: testing, observability, AI-driven development practices for the team
• Key Collaborators
• Engineering Leadership
• Product Management
• Operations & QA
• Customer Success

Benefits

• Impactful Work: Have a direct impact on product and culture
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible work and unlimited vacation policy, virtual company events and happy hours
• Additional Perks: Commuter benefits, a work-from-home stipend, fitness subsidies
• Competitive Benefits: Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Family-Friendly Policies: Parental Leave, 401K & Life Insurance
• Employee-Led Communities: Parents@Tulip, Hey Lady, Allies@Tulip and more