Application Development Team Lead

NaviStone; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Retirement benefits

Unlimited vacation

Paid holidays

Professional development

Job summary

NaviStone is seeking an Engineering Manager in Cincinnati, OH to guide a small team building our platform with TypeScript, React, and Node.js. You will stay hands-on while strengthening agile processes, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product to deliver the right features.

You will lead hiring, onboarding, and growth, represent the team to leadership, and push for AI-enhanced development to improve velocity and quality.

Qualifications

• Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Strong hands-on with TypeScript, React, Node.js across the full stack.
• Proven track record improving team shipping, cycle time, and process.
• Product-minded with clear communication to stakeholders.
• Ability to balance coding with people & process responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of application engineers (2-4) and stay hands-on with front-end/back-end work.
• Shape realistic roadmaps with product managers and stakeholders.
• Improve agile ceremonies and remove blockers to accelerate delivery.
• Coach hiring, onboarding, and growth conversations for engineers.
• Promote AI-assisted and agentic development practices to boost velocity.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Agile

Leadership

Hiring

Tools

Snowflake

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Join our team of authentic, talented individuals who deliver innovative and meaningful solutions, guided by our core values that inspire inclusiveness, collaboration, creativity, and achievement.

NaviStone's benefits, programs, and perks are purpose-built to help you grow stronger professionally and personally. We offer ownership in the company as well as generous medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits for you and your family.

Balance

We're a Rocketship, but even Rocketships need rest! We work hard, and we go fast. But we also recharge! With unlimited vacation, a generous number of paid holidays, and fun employee events throughout the year, you can refuel and reinvigorate for the incredible journey ahead!

Growth

We never stop growing, and we never stop learning. Want to explore AI? Develop new coding skills? Become a better presenter? Grow your leadership skills? Learn advanced yoga? We offer countless professional and personal development opportunities to fuel your ambitions.

Our Core Values

We bond with clients and colleagues, strive to understand one another, cheer each other on, and always assume positive intent.

We create seamless handoffs between team members and take ownership of the final result.

We Take The Work Seriously

(Ourselves, Not So Much)

We tackle challenges head-on and don’t take feedback personally.

When It Doesn't Exist, Invent It

We refuse to stay stuck and instead ask for help to leverage obstacles as pivot points for growth.

Accountability, Not Blame

We are clear about our standards, hold ourselves accountable, and embrace mistakes as opportunities for improvement.

Best in Class Culture

Join our team

At NaviStone, we balance hard work with having fun, fostering a creative and supportive environment. Our culture drives us to solve our clients’ business issues in meaningful ways, generating both personal and brand success. Clear communication, transparency, and collaboration are central to everything we do, ensuring we deliver immediate results and drive long-term success.

I appreciate the fact that NaviStone really cares about people and doesn’t just talk about it. Our employee recognition program gives us a place to celebrate each other’s accomplishments with meaningful rewards. Our participation in programs like Adopt A Class , where we support students from underserved communities in our city, is also a point of pride. People really do matter at NaviStone.

Amy Meyer Senior Human Resources Generalist, NaviStone

I love the way that we all take pride in our work and go the extra mile for each other and our customers. It's about taking initiative, seeking ways to add value and consistently following through. When we all do this, we not only succeed as a team, but our customers do as well.

Nikki Shenk Director, Demand Gen

We Take Our Work Seriously. (Ourselves — not so much.)

At NaviStone, we are committed to delivering the best products to our clients, while also having fun. From a pinewood derby competition to a steps challenge to Together Tuesday's, we foster a positive and creative work environment that allows us to innovate and excel in all we do.

Dhruv Talwar Senior Marketing Campaign Analyst

If It Doesn't Exist, Invent It.

NaviStone is a company built on ingenuity and problem-solving. We are always looking for new ways to do things and we never give up on finding a solution. The impossible doesn't stop us; we find a way or make one.

Kristi Strom Client Partner

Accountability, Not Blame

My colleagues and I believe in taking responsibility, learning from our mistakes, and growing together. We focus on finding solutions, working as a team, and not pointing fingers at each other, which helps us be efficient and effective in serving our customers.

Recognized as a Top Place to Work

NaviStone has been and continues to be recognized numerous times as a place people want to work:

• 2026 Top Workplaces
• 2023, 2024, 2025 Best Places to Work
• 2019 and 2018 Best Employer

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Job Id:206

# of Openings:1

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The Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will guide a team small team (2-4) of application engineers building NaviStone's platform in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, while staying hands-on with front-end and back-end development yourself. You'll own how your team works, strengthening agile practices, improving cycle time, and partnering closely with product and stakeholders to ship the right things well.

What You'll Do

• You will lead a team of application engineers while staying hands-on with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, writing and reviewing code and setting the bar for quality, testing, and RESTful API design across synchronous and asynchronous services.
• You will own how your team works, running agile ceremonies, improving cycle time, removing blockers, and tightening the path from idea to production.
• You will manage your team's people side, including hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, feedback, and mentoring, and support each engineer's growth.
• You will partner with product managers and stakeholders to shape a realistic roadmap, and represent your team's progress and risks to engineering leadership.
• You will push the team forward on agentic engineering practices, building the team's skills with AI-assisted and agentic development tools.
• You will continuously look for ways to use AI tools more efficiently and effectively, increasing your team's velocity and quality.

What You Will Need to Succeed

• You have led, mentored, or managed engineers before, whether as a team lead, tech lead, or engineering manager, and know how to coach and grow a team.
• You have strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, React, and Node.js across the full stack, and understand best practices for RESTful API design, both synchronous and asynchronous.
• You have worked on agile development teams and have a track record of improving how a team ships, whether that's cycle time, predictability, or process friction.
• You are product-minded and communicate clearly with product managers, stakeholders, and non-technical audiences.
• You can balance hands-on coding with the people and process work of leading a team, and prioritize across your roadmap, technical debt, and production support.
• Experience with data pipelines, medallion architecture, Snowflake, or BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau is a plus but not required.

Location

Cincinnati, OH in Over-the-Rhine

Hybrid role, in office 2 days per week

Develop Your Best You, and Reinvigorate for What's Next

NaviStone's benefits, programs, and perks are purpose-built to help you grow stronger professionally, and personally. We offer generous medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits for you and your family.

We never stop growing, and we never stop learning. Want to explore AI? Develop new coding skills? Become a better presenter? Grow your leadership skills? Learn advanced yoga? We offer countless professional and personal development opportunities to fuel your ambitions.

We're a Rocketship, but even Rocketships need rest! We work hard, and we go fast. But we also recharge! With unlimited vacation, a generous number of paid holidays, and fun employee events throughout the year, you can refuel and reinvigorate for the incredible journey ahead.

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