Team Lead & Senior Python Engineer — Multi-Cloud Architect

Clear Destination Inc.; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Clear Destination Inc. is seeking an exceptional Team Lead, Software Engineer to lead and elevate our engineering team. You will bridge business strategy with technical execution, mentoring engineers, guiding architecture and ensuring high-quality, scalable software.

You will own Agile ceremonies, drive technical vision for VIN Decoder domain, and collaborate with product to deliver features on time while maintaining reliability and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field or equivalent experience.
• 0–2 years of people management experience preferred.
• 5+ years hands-on Python production experience.
• 2–4+ years Terraform/IaC experience.
• 3–5 years building, maintaining, and optimizing automated pipelines.
• 2–4 years applying domain-driven design to architect/build complex systems.
• Experience with in-memory data processing and monitoring tools (DataDog).
• Strong experience integrating 3rd‑party APIs and asynchronous data flows.
• Strong communication and collaboration in a fast-paced global team.
• Deep practical experience leading Agile development and running sprints.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage a small team of software engineers for VIN Decoder domain.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and map out career paths for reports.
• Foster collaborative, inclusive engineering culture and ownership.
• Provide technical leadership through mentoring and code reviews.
• Coordinate cross-functional communication across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Contribute to feature development and core service problem solving.
• Own scrum/Agile processes and lead sprint ceremonies.
• Drive multi-cloud architecture decisions and ensure scalability.
• Improve reliability, delivery performance, and customer outcomes.
• Maintain ET working hours for seamless team collaboration.
• Participate in on-call rotations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

People management

Agile ceremonies

Code review

Multi-cloud

In-memory data

DataDog

API integration

Unit tests

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS

Tools

Terraform

DataDog

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Clear Destination Inc. is seeking an exceptional Team Lead, Software Engineer to lead and elevate our engineering team. You will bridge business strategy with technical execution, mentoring engineers, guiding architecture and ensuring high-quality, scalable software.

You will own Agile ceremonies, drive technical vision for VIN Decoder domain, and collaborate with product to deliver features on time while maintaining reliability and security.