Senior Engineer; Team Lead

Orbis is seeking a Senior Engineer (Team Lead) to lead one of three integration teams supporting an ongoing program for a government client in the Middle East. In this role, you will carry dual responsibility: you are the strongest technical contributor on your team, and you are accountable for everything your team ships. You will take the hardest integrations yourself, set the technical standard for your team's work, plan and prioritize the team's backlog, and manage rotation handoffs to maintain continuity across deployments.

Roughly 60% of your time is hands‑on engineering; 40% is team coordination, planning, and people development. This is not a management role that happens to touch code—it is an IC role that carries team accountability.

• Own the team's delivery. Be accountable for the full output of your integration team (Senior Integration Engineer + Integration Engineer + yourself) across all assigned data sources and domains.
• Take the hardest integrations. Design and build adapters for the most complex, undocumented, or high‑risk source systems—the work nobody else on the team can crack.
• Plan and prioritize work. Translate the PTL's program‑level priorities into your team's work plan; sequence integrations, make trade‑off calls, and keep the team focused on what ships next.
• Set the technical bar. Define what “done” looks like for your team—code review standards, deployment quality gates, documentation expectations. Hold the team to it.
• Manage rotation continuity. Own handoffs between overseas rotations: what's in flight, what's blocked, what the next rotation picks up. Ensure nothing drops between cycles.
• Coordinate across teams. Align with the other two teams to deconflict shared dependencies, surface reusable patterns, and avoid duplicated adapter work across Teams A, B, and
  
  C.
• Grow your people. Develop both the Senior Integration Engineer and the Integration Engineer on your team. Identify skill gaps, give direct performance feedback, and decide who’s ready for more responsibility.
• Coordinate with the Staff Engineer. Align your team's integration approaches with the program‑wide patterns and standards the Staff Engineer defines. Surface cross‑team issues, adopt shared playbooks, and feed back field realities that should inform the architecture.
• Interface with the platform product team through the Staff Engineer. Escalate bugs and platform gaps with clear reproductions; decide when to adopt new platform versions for your team in line with program cadence.
• Report upward clearly. Give the PTL a clear read on your team's status, risks, and blockers. Surface problems early with proposed mitigations, not just flags.
• Deploy and validate in theater. Stay hands‑on through deployment into customer environments—cloud‑native, on‑premises, and tactical edge. Validate your team's integrations work where they need to work.
• Engage in customer technical exchanges. Represent your team's integration work in technical working groups; translate engineering detail for non‑technical stakeholders when needed.

• 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on system integrations and data pipelines.
• Proficiency in Type Script/Node.js.
• Experience with Graph
  
  QL and pub/sub architectures (Zenoh or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to lead a small technical team while remaining a hands‑on contributor.
• Track record of owning delivery outcomes for a team, not just individual work.
• Hands‑on experience deploying and managing containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes/Helm) across multiple environment types.
• Experience debugging complex, cross‑system integration failures in production environments under operational pressure.
• Strong ability to prioritize, sequence, and plan technical work for a team against shifting program needs.
• Proven ability to develop engineers—mentoring, performance feedback, and skill growth.
• Strong communication skills in distributed, remote, cross‑functional, multi‑time zone teams.

• Familiarity with defense data standards and protocols: ASTERIX, Cursor on Target (CoT), STANAG, radar UDP.
• Experience designing…