Lead Engineer
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About the job Lead Engineer
Location: New York, NY - In Person
Experience: 5-10 years
Compensation: $200,000-$275,000 + equity About the Role We're looking for an exceptional Lead Engineer to serve as a technical anchor on a fast-growing engineering team. This is a hands-on technical leadership role-not an engineering management position. You'll own complex product initiatives, make important architectural decisions, ship production code, and help raise the technical bar across the team. The ideal candidate combines deep systems expertise, strong product instincts, startup ownership, and an AI-native approach to engineering . What You'll Do
- Own complex product initiatives from architecture through production.
- Design and scale robust distributed systems.
- Make key architectural decisions across performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Remain hands-on and ship production-quality code.
- Lead the technical direction of major customer-facing features.
- Review code and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
- Work closely with product and engineering leadership.
- Use AI development tools to improve engineering velocity and quality.
- 5-10 years of software engineering experience.
- Experience as a Tech Lead, Engineering Lead, or senior technical owner .
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, system design, and architecture .
- Strong backend engineering skills; Go experience strongly preferred .
- Experience owning meaningful architecture in a B2B or product engineering environment.
- Track record of shipping scalable, customer-facing products.
- Strong product intuition and ability to connect technical decisions to user outcomes.
- Experience mentoring and providing technical direction to other engineers.
- High ownership and ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving startup.
- Comfortable using modern AI coding and development tools as part of the daily engineering workflow.
- Able to work in person in New York City.
- Experience at a high-growth startup.
- AI / AI-agent product experience.
- Enterprise SaaS or B2B product experience.
- TypeScript / React / Next.js.
- AWS / GCP, Kubernetes, Redis, or Temporal.
- Strong side projects or independent builder track record.
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