🤓 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
✨ You are the person they are looking for if you have...
- 4+ years in software engineering
- 1+ years managing or leading a team (formal or informal)
- 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
- Uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging
- Experiments with AI to accelerate team delivery and quality
- 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