Sr. Product Engineer | Team Lead

Role OverviewAs a Product Engineering Team Lead, you are the single point of accountability for a client project. This is a leadership role, not an individual contributor role.

We are looking for a product manager, an architect, and a QA in one person. You define what gets built, decide how it gets built, guarantee the quality of what ships, and lead the engineers who build it. On engagements where a Product Owner is staffed alongside you, product definition and UX shift to them and your weight moves to architecture, delivery, and engineering quality. On the rest, all of it is yours.

We run several engagement models: monthly retainer, time and materials, fixed price with capped hours, and fixed price. Across all of them the client directs prioritization on an ongoing basis, and requirements get worked out through iteration rather than settled up front. You are the person who makes that sustainable.

What You'll OwnTeam leadership

• Lead a team of product engineers: set direction, allocate work, and unblock teammates
• Review code and technical decisions, and hold the team to a consistent quality bar
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical capability of the team over timeProduct management
• Translate client goals into a clear scope, roadmap, and prioritized backlog in Jira
• Determine the scope, timeline, and quality needed to ship a working product, and on ongoing engagements the sequencing and capacity of the team's work
• Own delivery timelines and communicate deviations before they become problems
• Host the weekly demo meeting and make sure the scope to be worked on before the next one is clearArchitecture and delivery
• Design, architect, and evolve the systems your team builds
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, and optimize CI/CD pipelines
• Embed security best practices across development, infrastructure, and operations, and proactively monitor systems for risksQuality ownership
• Define and enforce the testing and QA strategy across the team, and set the bar the engineers verify their own work against
• Take responsibility for what ships. Where the engagement puts infrastructure in our hands, that includes production stability and bug resolution; where the client runs their own, it is the quality of what we hand over
• Create reusable components, documentation, and processes that make the team work efficientlyClient leadership
• Act as the primary technical point of contact, leading technical conversations and explaining trade-offs in plain language
• Manage expectations honestly and turn client feedback into product decisionsRequirements
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering client projects end-to-end
• Track record operating across product, architecture, and quality, not just one of the three
• Strong professional experience building and shipping full-stack applications
• Practical CI/CD experience, from pipeline design through production deployment
• Experience monitoring, debugging, and supporting live production systems
• Working knowledge of application and infrastructure security fundamentals
• Proficient with AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery without compromising code quality
• Experience picking up and stabilizing an existing codebase built by someone else
• Experience integrating LLM-based features, voice AI, or chatbots in applications
• High discipline and proactive communication in a distributed team
• Available during core collaboration hours, 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific Time, Monday to FridayNice to Have
• Agency or consulting background managing multiple stakeholders
• Experience working alongside a Product Owner, with a clean split between product definition and technical ownership