Engineering Team Lead

Worky; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Worky is seeking a Team Lead to provide technical and delivery leadership for a small group of engineers building TuGo’s web, mobile, and back-end systems. You will mentor, set technical standards, coordinate cross‑team work, and partner with the Senior Manager on planning and growth.

You’ll drive architecture decisions, contribute code, champion AI tooling, ensure reliability, and align engineering work with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development delivering production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience across backend, frontend, and mobile technologies (Java, Spring Boot, React, Flutter).
• Experience using AI coding assistants and evaluating AI-generated code for security and quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, testing, release, and support of features across TuGo’s web, mobile, and back-end platforms.
• Coordinate sprint execution, break down work, remove blockers, and ensure delivery commitments.
• Guide technical decisions including architecture, patterns, and code quality.
• Contribute to development through coding, reviews, testing and automation.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and technical one-on-ones.
• Support onboarding and help new team members become productive in TuGo’s AI-augmented development environment.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

AI tools

English communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

React

Grails

Flutter

NoSQL

Relational modeling

CI/CD

AWS/Azure

OAuth2/OpenID/JWT

AI coding assistants

Job description

What you'll do

You provide technical and delivery leadership for a small group of engineers building and supportingTuGo’sweb, mobile, and back-end systems. This hands‑on role combines software development, AI-augmented delivery practices, andmentorship to help the team deliver high quality solutions efficiently and at scale.

The Team Lead does not directly manage people, but sets the technical bar, coordinates work across the initiative, and works with the Engineering Senior Manager on planning, quality, and team growth.

Technical & Delivery Leadership

• Lead the design, development, testing, release, and support of features acrossTuGo’sweb, mobile, and back-end platforms.
• Coordinate sprint execution by breaking down work, removing blockers, facilitating ceremonies, and ensuring delivery commitments are met.
• Guide technical decisions including architecture, patterns, code quality and implementation trade offs.
• Contribute directly to development through coding, code reviews, testing and automation.

AI-Augmented Development

• Champion the use of AI coding tools(Claude Code, Copilot, and similar) as a core part of daily delivery.
• Establish standards for using AI responsibly in alignment with TuGo’s AI Sensible Use Policy, validating output for correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Build and maintain internal knowledge resources including runbooks, prompt libraries, and technical documentation.
• Evaluate and prototype practical AI use cases, including LLM, RAG, and agentic based solutions.

Quality, Reliability & Support

• Support system reliability and contribute to SRE and operational best practices.
• Participate in Tier 2 support and incident response activities.
• Monitor key delivery and quality metrics such as throughput, defect rates, uptime and drive continuous improvement.
• Lead root‑cause analysis for production issues and ensure durable fixes.

Mentorship & Team Development

• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and technical one‑on‑ones.
• Support onboarding and help new team members become productive quickly withinTuGo’sAI-augmented development environment.
• Support the Engineering Senior Manager with performance feedback, development planning, and hiring input.

Business Alignment

• Connect engineering work to measurable business outcomes including delivery speed, reliability and customer experience.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Compliance, and other stakeholders to deliver effective and appropriate solutions.
• Contribute to planning, cost estimation, resourcing, and technical feasibility for new and ongoing initiatives.

Additional

• Achieveperformance targets.
• Collaborate and communicateeffectively withteam members and all other teams.
• Responsively and effectively handleissues.
• Look for ways to improvecustomer experience.
• Promote and model TuGo culture, values, and brand promise.
• Continuously buildprofessional and technicalexpertise.
• Other duties asrequired.

What you’ll bring

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience delivering production systems
• Strong hands‑on experience with:

• Back-end: Java, Spring Boot, microservices, event-driven architecture, REST APIs
• Front-end: React and Grails
• Mobile: Flutter
• Data: NoSQL and relational modeling

• Experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools in daily development workflows
• Demonstrated ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code for accuracy, security, and maintainability
• Experience integrating AI/LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, or similar) into applications including RAG patterns is an asset
• Experience with secure application design (OAuth2, OpenID, JWT) and relevant standards (e.g., PCI)
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and modern CI/CD practices
• Experience working in an Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methodologies
• Excellent written and verbal English skills
• Strong teamplayer and positive contributor
• Abilityto learn applicationsquickly
• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, and decision‑making skills
• Able to consistently live our values of valued,effectiveandtrusted
• A strong customer experience focus
• Apassion for continuous learning and professional achievement
• Successful completion of a criminal record check