Engineering Team Lead

HRB; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Superorder is seeking an Engineering Team Lead for our enterprise products. You will bridge leadership and the enterprise engineering team, guiding architecture, execution, and culture across the nationwide restaurant enterprise.

You will lead a fast-moving product team building the modern restaurant operating system, including AI dispute management, review management, and enterprise data aggregation. Our stack uses Python backend, React, Kotlin, AWS, Serverless, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience defining and developing technical products.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, high-impact startup culture.
• Ability to architect and engineer robust solutions amidst ambiguity.
• Proven track record of increasing the effectiveness of your team members.

Responsibilities

• Establish technical vision and strategy from ideation to production.
• Foster innovation and align engineering with business goals.
• Deliver high-quality product quickly with robust architectures.
• Define team and product metrics for fast development cycles.
• Guide team growth and culture with empowerment and ownership.
• Define hiring strategy to attract engineers who fit culture.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Architectural design

Distributed systems

Team coaching

Tools

Python

React

Kotlin

AWS Lambda

Kubernetes

Serverless

Job description

Engineering is at the heart of everything we do. As the Engineering Team Lead for our enterprise products, you’ll be the direct bridge between leadership and our enterprise engineering team. You will lead the architecture, technical execution, and culture of the team that will define the future of Superorder’s enterprise business and restaurants (from 5 to 5000 location chains) across the country. As the technical lead of this team, you will have a wide overview of all of our business and play an important role in shaping our technology + product strategy.

You’ll be the linchpin of a fast-moving, extremely focused product team that is focused on building our the modern restaurant operating system, including AI dispute management, review management, enterprise data aggregation, and much more. The engineering stack comprises of primarily a Python backend with React web apps and Kotlin based Android apps. We heavily utilize AWS, Serverless, and Kubernetes-based workflows.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Engineering is at the heart of everything we do. As the Engineering Team Lead for our enterprise products, you’ll be the direct bridge between leadership and our enterprise engineering team. You will lead the architecture, technical execution, and culture of the team that will define the future of Superorder’s enterprise business and restaurants (from 5 to 5000 location chains) across the country. As the technical lead of this team, you will have a wide overview of all of our business and play an important role in shaping our technology + product strategy.

You’ll be the linchpin of a fast-moving, extremely focused product team that is focused on building our the modern restaurant operating system, including AI dispute management, review management, enterprise data aggregation, and much more. The engineering stack comprises of primarily a Python backend with React web apps and Kotlin based Android apps. We heavily utilize AWS, Serverless, and Kubernetes-based workflows.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Establish Technical Vision + Strategy: Work closely with management to help define new verticals from product ideation to productionization/GTM
• Help foster innovation within the company and ensure that engineering objectives are in line with business/operations strategy
• Deliver Impact and Technical Excellence: Ship high quality product quickly and focus on defining robust architectures that power the real time operations of our customers
• Define team + product metrics to help maintain quick development cycles
• Guide Team Growth + Culture: Drive our culture of empowerment, ownership, and impact throughout the team
• Define the hiring strategy for the team to bring on the best engineers that fit our culture

Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience working on defining and developing technical products
• Crave a fast-paced, high-impact work environment: we expect to move quickly and ship often
• Ability to architect and engineer robust solutions amidst ambiguity
• Proven track record of increasing the effectiveness of your team members

Preferred Experience

• Based in NYC or willing to relocate
• Experience building production applications in Python
• Experience working in a fast-paced engineering culture, ideally an early stage startup
• Experience in the AWS Serverless Stack (Lambda, State Functions, etc)
• Experience/familiarity with high-scale, distributed systems