LEAD PRODUCT ENGINEER

Role overview

Leadership and delivery

• Guide Product Engineers and Senior Product Engineers, oversee concurrent workstreams, and act as an escalation point for complex challenges.
• Balance direct contribution with oversight to maintain delivery speed and quality.
• Oversee complex product capabilities across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, ensuring quality, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

Product and architecture

• Translate operational workflows into product capabilities and work with subject matter experts and Product to reflect real-world constraints.
• Identify gaps, edge cases, and inconsistent implementations and drive alignment.
• Guide platform architecture, establish patterns and standards, and make tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and long-term system health.

Ways of working and collaboration

• Improve scoping, work breakdown, handoffs, iteration, estimation, and sequencing across the development lifecycle.
• Align Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders on priorities, scope, execution strategy, decisions, risks, and progress.

Hands-on engineering and mentoring

• Contribute to complex or high-risk code, set standards for maintainability and performance, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Mentor engineers, raise standards for system design and product judgment, identify skill gaps, and support team growth.
• Improve product capabilities and engineering processes and incorporate customer, subject matter expert, and internal feedback.

Qualifications

• Four to six or more years of experience building and shipping high-quality production software.
• Proven experience leading or guiding teams in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Ability to work as both an individual contributor and team leader.
• Good judgment when problems are not fully defined.

Work arrangement

• The position is fully remote.

Compensation

• The stated salary range is $170,000 to $220,000 USD, plus an annual bonus; compensation may vary by experience, location, and other job-related factors.

Benefits

• Benefits include medical coverage starting on day one and a company-matched 401(k).