Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)

Glia; Town of Poland (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Glia is seeking a deeply technical engineer to lead the Nexus team, shaping systems and features that orchestrate interactions—text-based connectors and data flow—across Glia.

You will manage a distributed, 6-person team across Tartu, Estonia, and Poland, advancing from hands-on Senior Engineer to a leadership-heavy role while ensuring high-quality, scalable delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience designing complex components with sound tradeoffs.
• Proven track record shipping reliable outcomes and quality.
• Partner with PMs to lead projects from idea to delivery.
• Active use of AI tools to design, build, review and ship.

Responsibilities

• Delivery & Architecture: translate goals into prioritized work and set direction.
• People & Mentorship: run 1:1s, manage performance, coach leads.
• AI Leverage & Quality: establish workflows for AI-assisted coding and reviews.
• Hands-on Contribution: stay close to code while leading high-leverage tasks.
• Leadership: set direction, unblock teams, raise the bar without micromanaging.

Skills

Architecture & Technical Judgment

Trusted Delivery

Project Leadership Through Others

Applied AI Fluency

Drive & Learning Velocity

Leadership Instincts

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Kafka

GitHub

DataDog

Job description

About Glia

Glia is the #1 Banking AI platform, empowering community and regional financial institutions to create efficiencies, accelerate loan growth, drive deposits, and deliver experiences that win against megabanks and fintechs.

Glia's Banking AI Operating System is a central intelligence layer on top of existing tech stacks, activating an AI workforce of specialized agents that draw from banking data, interaction history, and integrated systems of record. These banking-trained agents automate workflows across voice and digital— from front office to back office—resulting in decreased operational costs and the Universal Banker model.

Trusted by 700+ banks and credit unions for its ironclad security and reliability, Glia delivers the industry’s first contractual no-hallucination guarantee. It’s why Glia customers quickly and confidently put Banking AI to work with measurable results from day one. More information about Glia can be found at glia.com.

The Mission and The Work

This role is for a deeply technical engineer ready to multiply their impact through leadership without losing their hands‑on edge. You will lead the Nexus team, shaping the systems and features that orchestrate interactions—specifically text‑based connectors and data flow—across Glia.

You will manage a distributed, 6‑person team of staff, senior, and entry‑to‑mid‑level engineers operating across Tartu, Estonia, and Poland (EET/EEST). You'll work alongside some of Glia's earliest engineers, the people who built these systems and still run them.

The Ramp-Up (First 3 Months)

You will start as a hands‑on Senior Engineer to build a strong foundation. You will:

• Ship production code and learn the Interaction Core systems end‑to‑end.
• Understand the mechanics of the interaction engine and text‑based connectors.
• Get to know the team, the codebase, and Glia’s project delivery methodologies.

The Team Lead Role (Post Ramp‑Up)

Once you step up, your time will shift to ~60% leadership and ~40% hands‑on coding. You will own:

• Delivery & Architecture: Translate ambiguous goals into prioritized work, unblock the team, set the technical direction, and drive long‑term architectural decisions.
• People & Mentorship: Run 1:1s, manage performance, and coach project leads to sharpen their communication and decision‑making.
• AI Leverage & Quality: Establish workflows for AI‑assisted coding, setting the review standards and guardrails so the team's output scales without compromising quality.
• Hands‑on Contribution: Lead by example by staying close to the code and taking on high‑leveraged technical work.

Our tech stack

• Coding languages: Elixir, Ruby, Javascript (React)
• Current Persistence Solutions: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3
• Infrastructure: AWS
• Monitoring: DataDog
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Argo CD
• AI: Gemini, CoPilot, Claude Code
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Other: Kafka, GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker

What We’re Looking For

• Architecture & Technical Judgment: You own the design of complex components, make sound tradeoffs, and spot risk. When AI builds the code, system design becomes the scarce, highly valued skill.
• Trusted Delivery: You have a track record of shipping reliable outcomes, de‑risking projects, and owning quality—including verifying and standing behind agent‑generated code.
• Project Leadership Through Others: You have partnered with PMs to lead projects from idea to delivery, and you know how to grow that capability in your team's project leads rather than owning every initiative directly.
• Applied AI Fluency: A core requirement. You actively use tools like Claude to design, build, review, and ship. You can direct agents, verify their output, and understand exactly where they do and do not help.
• Drive & Learning Velocity: You run at problems, absorb new tools and practices quickly, and naturally mentor those around you.
• Leadership Instincts: You set direction, unblock people, and raise the bar without micromanaging. Ideally, you bring prior tech lead, team lead, or mentorship experience, along with a background in performance management.

Glia is an equal‑opportunity employer. Glia does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.

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