Remote Engineering Team Lead — AI-Driven Product Mentorship

MasteryPrep LLC; Lakeview (LA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Health benefits

401k matching

Paid time off

Company laptop

Job summary

MasteryPrep LLC is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to manage a small product engineering team in a hands-on role. You will design and run an AI-native development workflow, ship features, and ensure accountability for what lands in production.

You will balance automation with human review, define task specs and acceptance criteria, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product to keep delivery predictable and secure for a million users.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineers as a team lead or engineering manager while remaining hands-on.
• Strong full-stack depth with React and TypeScript in production, plus solid back-end experience with Node.js or similar.
• Real experience with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM, or comparable services) and with PostgreSQL — schema design, query performance, migrations.
• Working fluency with AI-assisted development — you have used tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot on real production work.
• A reviewer’s eye: you can read a large volume of code quickly and catch what matters.
• Clear written communication — in an AI-native process, well-written task specs and prompts are engineering artifacts.
• Judgment, pragmatism, and steady ownership under ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team. Manage, mentor, and grow a team of product engineers. Run planning, set the product engineering strategy, and keep delivery predictable.
• Own the AI-native process. Define how work is decomposed into agent-runnable tasks: kickoff prompts, acceptance criteria, UAT checkpoints, and completion reports.
• Keep humans in charge of what matters. Establish clear human-decision points — PR approval, merge, commit sign-off, and user acceptance testing.
• Ship product. Design, build, and maintain features with AI native engineering.
• Own data and integrations. Steward our database architecture and the integrations that connect us to schools.
• Set the quality bar. Testing standards, CI checks, review discipline, and security practices for a platform serving a million students a year.
• Measure and improve. Track AI-assisted development impact and optimize processes.

Skills

Team leadership

Full-stack React/TypeScript

Node.js backend

GCP & PostgreSQL

AI-assisted development

Code comprehension

Written communication

Pragmatism under ambiguity

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Google Cloud Platform

PostgreSQL

Job description

MasteryPrep LLC is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to manage a small product engineering team in a hands-on role. You will design and run an AI-native development workflow, ship features, and ensure accountability for what lands in production.

You will balance automation with human review, define task specs and acceptance criteria, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product to keep delivery predictable and secure for a million users.