Engineering Team Lead

We’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Team Lead to lead our product engineering team and drive technical excellence across our e-commerce platform. You’ll manage a team of 2 engineers while remaining deeply involved in code — architecting solutions, reviewing pull requests, and shipping production features yourself.

This is a player‑coach role: you’ll spend roughly 50% of your time coding and 50% leading. You’ll establish engineering standards, organize sprints, manage our cloud infrastructure, and ensure we deliver bug‑free, high‑quality software. You’ll also pioneer AI‑augmented development workflows, integrating tools like Claude Code into our daily engineering practices to maximize team velocity and code quality.

You’ll report directly to the CTO and play a critical role in scaling our Shopify‑integrated platform, improving system reliability, and building a high‑performance engineering culture.

• Hands‑On Development: Actively contribute to the codebase — write production code, build features, and fix critical bugs alongside your team.
• Architecture & Code Quality: Design and implement clean, maintainable, and scalable solutions using Type Script and React, following modern best practices.
• Code Reviews: Conduct thorough PR reviews to ensure code quality, security, and adherence to engineering standards.
• Quality Ownership: Take responsibility for bug‑free software delivery through robust testing strategies, code review processes, and quality gates.

• Lead & Mentor: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 2 engineers — provide technical guidance, conduct 1:1s, and support career development.
• Sprint Organization: Plan and run sprints, manage backlog prioritization, and ensure timely delivery of initiatives.
• Engineering Guidelines: Establish and document coding standards, PR review guidelines, testing requirements, and development workflows.

• Infrastructure Management: Own and manage cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud), including deployment pipelines, monitoring, and system reliability, compute, storage, networking.
• CI/CD Excellence: Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, linting, deployment; using Git Hub Actions, Fastlane, Bitrise, or similar.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): Preferred experience.
• Monitoring & Observability: Implement alerting, logging, and observability using Sentry, Grafana, or similar.
• Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes basics.

• AI Workflow Integration: Lead the adoption of AI coding assistants (Claude Code) into engineering workflows.
• Prompt Engineering: Develop effective prompts, agents, skills, MCPs, configurations, and AI‑assisted development patterns for the team.
• Productivity Innovation: Stay current with AI engineering practices (you know already what is Boris Cherny’s workflow) and continuously improve team velocity through AI tooling.
• Cross‑Functional Partnership: Work closely with Product, Design, Data, and Customer Success teams to deliver customer‑focused solutions.
• Shopify Integration: Ensure seamless integration with Shopify APIs, storefronts, and e‑commerce systems.
• Technical Communication: Translate complex technical concepts for non‑technical stakeholders and represent engineering in strategic discussions.

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• 3+ years in engineering leadership roles (Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager)
• Proven track record of managing and mentoring engineers
• Experience building and scaling platforms (e‑commerce / Shopify experience a plus)

• Type Script and modern JavaScript (ES6+)
• React / React Native core concepts (Hooks, Context API, State Management)
• Node.js backend development
• REST and Graph
  
  QL APIs
• Shopify APIs (Storefront, Admin, Hydrogen) — preferred
• Checkout integrations

• Unit testing (Jest, Vitest)
• E2E testing (Playwright, Detox, Cypress)
• Code review best practices
• Git workflows (trunk‑based development, feature branches)

• Required: Hands‑on experience integrating AI coding assistants into development workflows
• Preferred: Experience with Claude Code, agentic…