Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

LeadMagic; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

LeadMagic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer Team Lead to manage a team of engineers and drive product and platform strategy. The role involves overseeing engineering processes, ensuring high coding standards, and fostering the growth of team members. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in engineering management, particularly with Next.js and CI policies.

Qualifications

• 2+ years leading teams or pods; setting roadmaps & delivery forecasts.
• Demonstrated ownership of budgets & uptime (99.9%+).
• Experience rolling out org-wide CI policies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a squad of 4-6 engineers and deliver quarterly OKRs.
• Run sprint rituals, unblock teammates, and uphold SLAs.
• Hire, onboard, and coach engineers toward seniority milestones.

Skills

Next.js 15

CI policies

Rate-limiting strategies

Observability dashboards

Job description

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Role Overview

Manage a squad of 4-6 engineers, deliver quarterly OKRs, and partner with the CEO on product & platform strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Run sprint rituals, unblock teammates, and uphold engineering SLAs.
• Own architecture reviews, security reviews, and incident response.
• Define coding standards, DORA metrics, and on-call rotations.
• Hire, onboard, and coach engineers toward seniority milestones.

Must-Haves

• All Senior-Engineer Musts, plus:
• 2+ years leading teams or pods; setting roadmaps & delivery forecasts
• Demonstrated ownership of Next.js 15 edge platform budgets & uptime (99.9%+)
• Experience rolling out org-wide CI policies, branch protections, dependency scanning
• Designed company-wide rate-limiting & caching strategies (Upstash/Redis, edge KV)
• Established usage-based billing meters & observability dashboards (Grafana, Datadog, or Vercel Analytics)

Nice-to-Have

• Driving adoption of Inngest / Trigger.dev across multiple codebases

Bonus Points

• Built AISDK-powered features or AI-assisted code-review bots
• Orchestrated long-running idempotent workflows with compensating transactions
• Rolled out cost-analysis tooling (per-request $ cost, edge compute budgets)

How to Apply

• Apply through our LinkedIn form with a short note on a scaling or architecture challenge you solved that’s relevant to the role. No agencies; direct applicants only.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Internet Publishing

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