The Role

We're looking for a Technical Lead to help define and scale the technical direction of our consumer-facing platform while raising the bar for engineering quality, execution speed, and AI-native development practices.

As the Technical Lead, you'll be the primary technical leader for the consumer pod - working cross functionally to shape architecture, make high-leverage technical decisions, and ensure we consistently ship high-quality consumer experiences. You'll operate across a modern TypeScript stack, making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, scalability, maintainability, and user experience as the product and organization evolve.

You'll be expected to stay deeply hands-on, set a high bar for engineering excellence, and actively shape how the team builds software - including how we use AI to fundamentally increase engineering velocity and quality.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve the technical direction of the consumer platform, setting long-term architectural vision while making pragmatic, day-to-day technical decisions
• Make high-leverage architectural decisions across a modern TypeScript ecosystem, balancing speed, scalability, product quality, and long-term maintainability
• Serve as the technical "north star" for the pod through design reviews, code reviews, and deep technical guidance
• Stay deeply hands-on in the codebase, contributing to complex features, debugging production issues, and driving system design work end-to-end
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to shape roadmaps, challenge assumptions, and translate ambiguous problems into clear technical direction
• Raise the bar for engineering quality across performance, reliability, testing strategy, observability, and developer experience
• Actively mentor engineers by modeling strong engineering judgment
• Define and operationalize AI-assisted engineering workflows that meaningfully increase team velocity (not just individual productivity), using tools like Cursor, Codex, Claude, and others
• Participate in hiring and interviewing, helping to maintain a high technical bar of the organization
• Collaborate across engineering teams to influence shared systems, infrastructure, and cross-cutting platform decisions

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in modern full-stack web development
• Proven track record of owning or significantly influencing architecture for consumer-facing web products at scale
• Strong mastery of TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Next.js, with a bias toward building maintainable systems over short-term hacks
• Experience building and scaling modern full-stack applications using GraphQL, Apollo, and AWS, with strong expertise in both relational and NoSQL databases including Postgres and DynamoDB.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical leader
• Exceptional engineering judgment - able to make clear decisions in ambiguous spaces with incomplete information
• Strong, hands-on coding ability with a willingness to stay close to the implementation
• Experience scaling systems with real constraints around performance, reliability, and product velocity tradeoffs
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering, product, and design
• Deep, practical fluency with AI-assisted development - not experimentation, but real workflow integration that improves how teams ship software
• A bias toward systems thinking, simplicity, and long-term maintainability over local optimization

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience working on high-traffic consumer products at scale
• Prior experience mentoring Staff or Senior Staff engineers
• Familiarity with modern observability, CI/CD, and developer productivity tooling

Attributes that will make you successful on our team

• A strong desire to learn. You continually look for ways to build your skills.
• Tenacity. You enjoy working on challenges that others can't or don't want to tackle and you aren't afraid of failing fast in order to find better solutions.
• Passion. You love using your technical skills to build products that solve real problems. You hold yourself to a high standard and help to elevate others as well.
• Empathy. You thrive in an environment where everyone can truly be themselves. You understand that our differing life experiences influence who we are and how we show up, and these diverse perspectives enrich both our team and our product.
• Customer-centric mindset. You can understand the problem to be solved and who we are solving it for.
• Innovation: Passion for exploring and implementing AI technologies to enhance automation, optimize workflows, and drive innovation

Benefits

• Remote first
• Competitive salary and equity
• Flex PTO policy
• 401(k)
• Generous medical, dental and vision plans
• 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
• $1,000 reimbursement for work-from-home tech setup
• Company-paid sustainability subscription to ensure carbon neutrality is maintained for employee activities, such as travel

Compensation

Compensation is something we don't want our candidates or employees to worry about. Our goal is to offer competitive salaries that are regularly benchmarked against the market. The core tenets of our compensation philosophy are fairness and transparency.

We have established a standardized leveling framework based on job scope and responsibilities. The compensation package for each level is standard across all engineering roles. This means that every person at a certain level is paid the same as everyone else, regardless of their background, previous compensation, location, or any other factor.

The compensation for this role is $210,000 and includes a generous equity package.

Application

Some candidates may see the requirements and feel unsure that they match all the criteria. We encourage you to apply! There's a good chance you have important skills that we have not stated.