L2 Onshore Lead

Programmers.io; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io is seeking an experienced engineering leader to define scalable, secure technical architecture and drive delivery across globally distributed teams. You will lead code reviews, establish standards, and steer framework choices while balancing business priorities and stakeholder expectations.

You will mentor engineers, coordinate across time zones, and own the diff review process, ensuring high-quality software and reliable deployments in a complex enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of programming experience or 4+ years with a PhD.
• Track record of setting technical direction and cross-functional partnerships.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale platform development, integrations, and on-call production support.
• Experience designing APIs and implementing unit testing in an enterprise environment.
• Experience improving quality via thoughtful code reviews, testing, rollout, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Define technical architecture and design documents to communicate direction across global teams.
• Ensure coding standards, lead code reviews, and promote engineering best practices in distributed delivery.
• Drive decisions on frameworks, libraries, and technologies balancing innovation and business needs.
• Act as escalation point for complex technical issues coordinating resolution across teams.
• Lead and own the diff review process within the team.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers to foster collaboration in a globally distributed environment.
• Bridge communications between US/Singapore/UK stakeholders and India-based dev teams, ensuring alignment of priorities and timelines.
• Contribute to hands-on implementation for critical features while balancing leadership responsibilities.
• Support DevOps and CI/CD to enable reliable, scalable deployments across distributed teams.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder comms

Sprint planning

Cross-team collaboration

Code reviews

Planning & Estimation

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Architecture and Design: Partner with client stakeholders to define technical architecture that supports scalable, secure, and high-performing delivery across globally distributed teams. Help create and maintain design documents that clearly communicate technical direction to stakeholders globally.

Code Quality: Ensure coding standards are met, lead code reviews, and promote engineering best practices to ensure consistency, maintainability, and shared accountability in a distributed delivery model.

Technical Decisions: Drive critical decisions on frameworks, libraries, and technologies by balancing innovation, business priorities, stakeholder expectations, and implementation realities across regions as necessary.

Problem-Solving: Act as the escalation point for complex technical issues, coordinating timely resolution across stakeholders and development teams while maintaining momentum and clarity.

Diff Review: Lead and own the diff review process within the immediate team.

Team & Operational Management

Team Metrics: Monitor and report on delivery and engineering metrics, in conjunction with the domain head to provide transparency to stakeholders and support continuous improvement.

E.g. Deployment Frequency, Work in Progress (WIP), Cycle Time, Defect Density, etc.

Sprint Leadership: Lead sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and other operational activities in a way that supports collaboration, accountability, and smooth execution across time zones.

Manage Sprint Board (when applicable): Oversee sprint board hygiene, task movement, backlog readiness, and equitable task distribution to maintain visibility and execution discipline across the distributed team.

Communication Standards: Ensure the team documents work and comments consistently in accordance with client and internal expectations so stakeholders and delivery teams have clear, traceable context.

Planning and Estimation: Partner with stakeholders globally to break down features, clarify scope, and estimate timelines with development teams in India.

Risk Management: In conjunction with the domain head, help identify risks, dependencies, and blockers early, communicate them clearly across stakeholder and engineering groups, and drive mitigation or escalation as needed.

Team Collaboration & Mentorship

Mentoring: Support junior and mid-level engineers through code pairing, technical guidance, while fostering strong collaboration habits in a globally distributed environment.

Cross-Team Collaboration: Act as the primary bridge between stakeholders in the US, Singapore, and the UK and development teams in India, ensuring shared understanding of priorities, requirements, timelines, dependencies, and delivery commitments.

Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate clear, timely, and structured communication between business stakeholders and engineering teams, translating business goals into actionable technical plans and relaying progress, risks, feedback, and decisions back to stakeholders.

Knowledge Sharing: Drive documentation, code comments, handovers, and cross-training activities that improve continuity, reduce dependency on individuals, and support effective collaboration across regions.

Other Responsibilities

Hands-on Coding: Contribute to implementation, especially for critical features, prototypes, or complex technical areas, while balancing leadership and coordination responsibilities.

DevOps and CI/CD: Support smooth deployments, monitor system health, and reinforce automated testing and release discipline to enable reliable delivery across distributed teams.

Minimum qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

8+ years of programming experience in a relevant language or 4+ years of experience + PhD

Track record of setting technical direction for a team, driving consensus and successful cross-functional partnerships

Hands-on experience with managing enterprise scale platform development, integrations, and on-call production support

Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques, especially in an enterprise environment

Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes

Preferred qualifications

Experience as a team lead and/or technical architect with a large scope across one or multiple domains (e.g. Accounting, Supply Chain, HR, or Procurement)

In-depth knowledge of one or multiple functional domains (e.g. Accounting, Supply Chain, HR, or Procurement)

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)