Engineering Lead: Hands-on Tech & Distributed Ownership

Ledger Run Inc.; Texas; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ledger Run Inc. is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to guide an engineering team through technical health, quality, and delivery of production SaaS solutions.

The role emphasizes a player-coach approach, fostering environments where engineers make explicit, documented decisions aligned with proven patterns. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, driving architecture decisions through ADRs, and partnering with Product to translate priorities into solid technical plans, while balancing delivery

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading production SaaS teams.
• Ability to drive ADRs and documented architectural decisions.
• Strong understanding of APIs, data modeling, performance, and security.
• Experience with DevOps ownership of deployment, observability, and reliability.
• Proven track record mentoring engineers and hiring at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and code reviews across the team.
• Pair with engineers on difficult problems and incidents.
• Set expectations for quality, ownership, and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Hiring & onboarding

Technical decision making

Code reviews

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Angular

SPA development

Containers

Cloud-native patterns

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Ledger Run Inc. is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to guide an engineering team through technical health, quality, and delivery of production SaaS solutions.

The role emphasizes a player-coach approach, fostering environments where engineers make explicit, documented decisions aligned with proven patterns. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, driving architecture decisions through ADRs, and partnering with Product to translate priorities into solid technical plans, while balancing delivery