Engineering Team Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 30, 2026.
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