Engineering Team Lead

You will play a key role in helping grow the company to its next level and shape its future — through the combination of product & tech. As an Engineering Team Lead you’ll lead a team of passionate engineers,
wear multiple hats, solve complex challenges, and deliver products that make a real impact. This is your opportunity to combine technical expertise with inspirational leadership & shaping our product, driving both the growth of your team and the success of our business. You will report to the CEO directly, with a potential to grow to be a CTO.

Rapid Seedbox is a remote SaaS company with a mission to provide online anonymity to people worldwide & to provide data accessible in fast, reliable, and private ways making public web data accessible to all.

We've been operating since 2008, serving thousands of active clients. With a clear vision for the future, our remote, passionate, and diverse team is continuously expanding, and we are on the lookout for talented individuals to join us on our exciting journey.

Watch the introduction video from our CEO & founder:

• Excellence in everything we do (“I go above and beyond”)
• Ownership and responsibility (“I own my area of responsibility”)
• Continuously push the limits (“I don’t accept no as an answer. No is just an option”)
• Openness & cooperation (“Everyone matters”)

As an engineering team lead you will be leading our engineering team as we decouple our legacy customer area (WHMCS / PHP) into a modern web app
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This is a hands‑on technical leadership role:
You’ll write code most days, guide architecture and execution, and be the single engineering counterpart to the PM/CEO to translate product requirements into a clear, deliverable plan.

Expect roughly 50% hands‑on engineering (coding, architecture, code reviews) and 50% leadership (planning, mentorship, delivery accountability) — typical for a true Team Lead in a small team.

You’ll work closely with the CEO/PM (and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team).

In your first 30 days, you will be in diagnosis mode. You’ll perform a deep technical + product diagnosis of our end‑to‑end — Tech‑stack evaluation, WHMCS dependencies, billing flows, and internal tooling & customer needs.

You must be able to:

• Recommend exactly how to tackle our tech‑stack limitations in the most agile & lean way possible.
• Create a 90‑day execution plan that aligns technical realities with business goals.

• Own technical direction for the client‑area/tech‑stack decoupling (architecture, interfaces, incremental migration plan)
• Establish engineering best practices: code quality, reviews, testing strategy, definition of done
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs that maximize learning + delivery speed without creating future traps

• Translate product goals into an execution plan: milestones, sequencing, risks, and dependencies
• Break down initiatives into tasks the team can execute independently
• Track progress with lightweight, real KPIs (delivery, quality, reliability), and communicate status clearly

• Mentor developers through pairing, feedback, and coaching
• Run effective 1:1s and create clarity on expectations and growth
• Raise the bar for structured thinking and ownership across the team
• Serve as a technical leader, combining hands‑on development with strategic oversight.
• Implement critical parts of the new client area + middleware layer
• Review PRs, improve legacy code safely, and guide refactors
• Help the team move faster through better tooling and patterns (including AI‑assisted workflows while maintaining quality)

• Be involved in defining the product roadmap & team expectations
• Be involved with ICP interviews, customer discovery, translate insights into product & tech priorities, and validate value delivered.

• Deep Technical Product
  
  Skills:
  
  You possess very deep technical skills which helps you…