Engineering Team Lead (SDET)

Ten Mile Square Technologies; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 164,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance (100

Disability insurance (100% company)

3% 401(k) contribution

Paid time off 15 days + 5 days

Training days 10 per year

Holidays 8 + 2 personal days

Incentives (cash) quarterly and annual

Transit reimbursement

Job summary

Ten Mile Square Technologies is seeking an experienced Engineering Team Lead (SDET) to guide a quality engineering and test-automation team while advancing CI/CD and AI-assisted tooling on a large financial services platform. This role combines hands-on software engineering with Agile leadership and mentoring across a cloud-based and legacy environment.

The company supports innovation and professional growth, offers substantial incentives, and operates on U.S.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with emphasis on test automation.
• 2+ years in Engineering Team Lead role with hands-on leadership.
• Strong Agile, Scrum, and continuous improvement practices.
• Automation frameworks for distributed systems, APIs, and integrations.
• Proficiency with Claude and AI-assisted software engineering tools.
• Experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, and modern architectures.
• Ability to work with legacy systems without deep tech on underlying platforms.
• Clear communication and integrity in cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead Agile team execution, fostering ownership and predictable delivery.
• Architect and maintain reusable test automation frameworks and quality practices.
• Define testing strategies across API, integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance tests.
• Leverage Claude and AI tools to boost productivity and quality.
• Manage test data across complex systems and legacy integrations.
• Support testing, releases, validation, and troubleshooting across modern applications.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to refine requirements and plan sprints.
• Improve CI/CD integration and deployment confidence.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence.
• Share knowledge and collaborate with Ten Mile Square teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Test automation

Team leadership

Agile delivery

AI-assisted tooling

AWS

CI/CD

SQL

Legacy systems

Communication

Tools

Claude AI

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

SQL

Job description

• Compensation: up to USD 182,500 - yearly

Company Description

Ten Mile Square Technologies is a high-end technology consulting firm based in the Northern Virginia area. Our customers routinely call upon us to solve some of the largest scale and hardest problems in computer science and software development. If you have a solid grounding in software engineering, continuous delivery, and computer science, and are looking for a career opportunity to grow and leverage those skills to the fullest while working on cutting edge technologies - Ten Mile Square is the place to be!

Job Description

OVERVIEW

Ten Mile Square is seeking an experienced, hands-on Engineering Team Lead (SDET) to lead a team responsible for quality engineering, test automation, release engineering, and engineering enablement. The successful candidate will support the incremental modernization of a large-scale financial services platform, working across modern cloud technologies and complex legacy systems. This is an individual contributor role combining strong Agile leadership, software engineering expertise, and hands‑on problem‑solving. The ideal candidate embraces AI‑assisted engineering, thrives in technically challenging environments, and enables teams to deliver high‑quality software predictably and efficiently.

Compensation (Base + Standard Incentive Pay): $182,500 ($160K + $22,500)

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead Agile team execution, fostering ownership, collaboration, accountability, predictable delivery, and continuous improvement.

Architect, develop, and maintain reusable test automation frameworks, engineering tools, and quality engineering practices.

Establish effective testing strategies across API, integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance testing.

Leverage Claude and other AI tools to improve engineering productivity, automation, testing, and problem‑solving.

Develop strategies for discovering, creating, managing, and maintaining test data across complex, interconnected systems.

Support testing, release execution, validation, and troubleshooting across modern applications and challenging legacy integrations.

Collaborate with engineering and product teams to refine requirements, manage dependencies, plan sprints, and deliver reliable solutions.

Improve CI/CD integration, automated quality gates, deployment processes, and release confidence.

Mentor engineers, promote engineering excellence, and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.

Proactively collaborate with the Ten Mile Square team on development and knowledge sharing.

Represent yourself and Ten Mile Square with integrity, expertise, and value.

Maintain the confidentiality of our clients on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications

7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in test automation.

2+ years of experience as an Engineering Team Lead, providing hands‑on technical leadership, Agile delivery leadership, and team mentorship.

Strong understanding and practical application of Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.

Expertise designing and developing automation frameworks for distributed systems, APIs, and complex integrations.

Demonstrated proficiency with Claude and AI-assisted software engineering tools.

Experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, and modern software architectures.

Experience managing complex test data and troubleshooting integration issues across multiple systems.

Ability to work effectively with brittle, poorly documented, or legacy systems without requiring expertise in their underlying technologies.

Strong understanding of software engineering principles, quality engineering, and maintainable code.

MORE IMPORTANTLY

Self‑motivated to PROACTIVELY identify and solve problems.

Be passionate about what you do.

Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly.

Strong Agile mindset with a commitment to team ownership and success.

Resourceful, persistent, and comfortable navigating technical complexity and ambiguity.

Detail‑oriented.

High integrity and quality of work ethic.

Excellent communication skills – within team and with clients.

Additional Information

EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE DESERVE EXCEPTIONAL BENEFITS

Ten Mile Square Technologies benefits package currently includes:

• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (including family)
• 100% company paid individual short‑and long‑term disability
• 3% company contribution to 401(k)
• 15 days paid time off per year+ 1 day/year up to 20 days
• 10 training days per year
• 8 company holidays + 2 personal days
• Individual performance-based quarterly cash incentive
• Combined individual and company based annual cash incentive
• Public transit reimbursement
• Job Type: Full-time, not C2C
• Job Location: Remote, US based only
• Working hours: U.S. Eastern Time
• Occasional short-duration travel may be required for project/team in-person sessions