Engineering Team Lead

Jobtailor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an engineering leader to own delivery across mobile, web, and backend, driving business outcomes. You will collaborate with product, design, and growth to ensure roadmaps reflect engineering realities and evaluate UI/UX for customer value.

You will oversee intake and prioritization, ship minimal viable slices, and guide a growing team with 1:1s and feedback while protecting quality through SLOs and a robust release process.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience: 8+ years leading engineers in software teams.
• Strong architecture and code review skills to drive quality.
• Full-stack judgment across mobile, web, and backend systems.
• Deep iOS expertise with production Swift/SwiftUI apps, and Android Kotlin/Jetpack.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery end-to-end across mobile, web, and backend and the business outcomes it drives.
• Partner with product, design, and growth to align roadmaps with engineering reality and review UI/UX for impact.
• Run intake and prioritization, sequencing work against business objectives and commitments.
• Lead and grow the team with 1:1s, feedback, and career development.
• Protect quality with SLOs, review processes, and robust release pipelines.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own delivery end-to-end across the team's full surface — mobile, web, and backend — and the business outcomes it drives.
• Partner closely with product, design, and growth — bring engineering reality into roadmaps early and evaluate UI/UX for the customer and the business, not just function.
• Run intake and prioritization: sequence work against business objectives, keep concurrent projects on track, and set realistic commitments — what ships, what waits, and why.
• Start big bets small: ship the thinnest slice that proves the idea, and grow it only on evidence.
• Lead and grow the team — 1:1s, feedback, and career development.
• Protect quality systematically — SLOs as guardrails, feature work balanced against maintenance, rigorous code review, and a release pipeline that catches regressions before customers do.
• Set technical direction and architecture — scope cross‑stack features to land as one coherent change, and pressure‑test plans for risk before the team commits.
• Build the factory, not just the product: embed AI and data into how the team works, so everyone ships faster, learns from every release, and stays pointed at impact.

Requirements

• A track record of leading engineers. 8+ years building software, including leading a team — formally or informally — and growing the engineers around you. This is the core of the role.
• Strong architecture and code review. This is how you lead — you set technical direction and strategy through sound system design and give the kind of code review that makes engineers better, spotting risk and design flaws before they ship.
• Full-stack technical judgment. Deep enough knowledge across mobile, web, and backend to review across the stack and evaluate what your team builds — even where you're not the one writing it.
• Deep iOS expertise. You've built and shipped production iOS apps with real depth (Swift/SwiftUI) — it's our lead platform and where most of our customers are — with solid Android (Kotlin/Jetpack) alongside. It's the technical foundation this role builds on.
• Stakeholder management and expectation setting. You partner cross-functionally with product, design, marketing, and partners — communicating trade-offs and keeping everyone aligned as priorities shift.
• A product and business mindset. You prioritize business objectives and measure success by value delivered — what moves the metrics — not by raw output or precise task estimates.
• Prioritization in a high-demand environment. With more good ideas than capacity, you triage competing requests, sequence against capacity, and say no well.
• High-traffic product sense. You've worked on consumer products at scale (e-commerce or similarly demanding), and you care about performance, reliability, and the customer experience that flows from them.
• AI fluency, clear written communication, and a collaborative default. You share context freely and disagree-and-commit when it's time to move.
• You don't need to tick every box. If most of this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams, with a strong focus on architecture, code review, and full-stack technical judgment across mobile, web, and backend platforms. Possesses a product and business mindset, prioritizing business objectives and stakeholder management to drive impactful outcomes.