Tech Lead

Unicity

$100K — $130K *
Provo, UT 84604In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software engineering leadership roles
  • Strong skills in TypeScript across the full stack
  • Deep understanding of API design and third-party integrations
  • Experience with observability tools and CI/CD practices
  • Ability to design and implement scalable database schemas

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical direction and set engineering standards
  • Encourage team collaboration through open discussions and code walkthroughs
  • Challenge project scope by assessing value vs. effort
  • Foster a culture of documentation reading over AI reliance
  • Minimize emergency calls by creating robust systems
  • Mentor team members on best practices and new technologies

Benefits

  • Hybrid, flexible work environment
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous vacation allowance plus company-paid holidays
  • Phone and internet reimbursement
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Travel opportunities
  • Substantial company product allowance
  • Competitive benefits package
Full Job Description
We're looking for a leader who will own technical direction, set the standard for how the team builds software, and help shape a codebase that's designed for how engineering works now - not how it worked three years ago.

Non-Technical Expectations:
  • Freely admits when they don't know something, yet continues to express their opinions.
  • Loves jumping on calls to walk through pull requests or complex features.
  • Questions whether the juice is worth the squeeze.
  • Reads and/or references documentation instead of trusting AI (and yes, actually reads it).
  • Takes emergency late-night calls. Builds systems that minimize them.
  • Doesn't underestimate the power of body language: Comfortable with camera-on collaboration.
  • Willing to work in-office on a weekly or monthly cadence, depending on location.
  • All other obvious expectations: Agile ceremonies, high-quality output, mentoring, best practices, observability, scalability, security, etc.

Technical Experience:
  • Uses and improves AI tooling and workflows as a core part of how they write, review, and ship code - not as a novelty.
  • Has the taste to distinguish between AI-generated code that's good enough to ship and code that just looks right. Holds the team to the same standard.
  • Anticipates future changes and builds patterns that make those changes easy.
  • TypeScript across the full stack.
  • Truly understands backend and frontend concerns and how they interact - not just framework-level knowledge.
  • API design: REST, schema/contract design, versioning, idempotency, websockets.
  • Third-party integrations via APIs, webhooks, and event-driven patterns.
  • Database schema design, ORM usage, and migrations.
  • Observability: logs, metrics, and analytics pipelines.
  • CI/CD: containerization, infrastructure as code, automated migrations.

What We Offer:
  • Hybrid, flexible work environment.
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave.
  • Generous vacation allowance plus company-paid holidays.
  • Phone and internet reimbursement.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Travel opportunities.
  • Substantial company product allowance.
  • Competitive benefits package.

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