Engineering Lead, US

Namespace Labs, Inc

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software engineering or related field
  • Proven leadership skills to manage high-performing teams
  • Experience in production-grade software development with languages like TypeScript/JavaScript (React), Go, or Python
  • Background in shipping impactful product features, especially in developer tools
  • Customer-focused approach with strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Enthusiastic about continuous learning and collaborative product development

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the first technical leader in the US, setting high standards for quality and performance
  • Build and lead a new engineering team in the US
  • Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to create technical execution plans
  • Bridge communication between the European team, users, and product strategy
  • Lay the foundation for scalable product engineering
  • Own and deliver features integrating with popular developer tools
  • Create user-friendly applications to simplify complex infrastructure for developers
  • Engage with users to understand their workflows and needs for product development

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options
  • Flexible working hours
  • Market-leading parental leave
Full Job Description
About the role

Namespace's approach is low-friction, designed for immediate integration into existing developer toolchains, empowering teams to experience tangible results within just five minutes. With an end-to-end stack optimized for high performance-including compute, memory, storage, and networking-Namespace delivers capabilities and efficiencies unmatched by traditional cloud providers.

As the Product Engineering Lead for Namespace in the US, you'll establish the US presence for Namespace. Apart from building a high performing team, you'll also lead technical decisions and develop products that significantly enhance developer productivity. You'll build intuitive, performant user-facing applications and integrations that seamlessly fit into developers' existing workflows, directly impacting their ability to ship faster and more efficiently.

What you'll do
  • Serve as the first technical leader for our US presence, setting a high bar for engineering quality, product thinking, and execution
  • Start, build, and lead a small engineering team in the US
  • Partner closely with product, design, and leadership to translate company goals into clear technical direction and execution plans
  • Act as a bridge between the team in Europe, users, product strategy, and engineering, ensuring we build the right things and build them well
  • Help shape the long-term technical and organizational foundations for scaling product engineering
  • Own and ship end-to-end features that integrate seamlessly with popular developer tools
  • Develop user-facing applications that make powerful infrastructure intuitive and accessible to developers
  • Collaborate directly with users and partners to deeply understand their workflows, pain points, and product needs
  • Continuously iterate on product design and implementation to drive adoption, performance, and reliability


What we're looking for
  • Leadership and management skills to lead high performing ICs
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience building production-grade software in languages like TypeScript/JavaScript (React), Go, Python, or similar
  • Proven track record shipping impactful product features, preferably for developer-focused or infrastructure products
  • Customer-centric mindset with the ability to translate complex technical solutions into intuitive user experiences
  • Enthusiasm for continuous learning and a collaborative approach to product development


You can expect:
  • Competitive salary and stock options
  • Flexible working hours
  • Market-leading parental leave


Life at Namespace Labs:
  • We pride ourselves in being a small team of experts that can achieve a lot.
  • We balance our long-term vision with short-term pragmatism.
  • We believe in being fully transparent internally on how decisions are made, on how the company is doing, and we use that information to drive our decisions.

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