Software Engineering Team Lead

Compensation: $125K to $150K + bonus + RRSP match
Sage Recruiting is partnering with a well-established, enterprise software company to find a Team Lead for their AI-powered meeting intelligence product, which turns relationship-manager and client conversations into structured, CRM-ready insight automatically. It's a real problem for anyone managing high-value client relationships: the context from a call either gets captured properly, or it quietly disappears. This product exists to make sure it's the former.
The team you'd be joining is the most AI-forward group inside the company. They build with AI wired directly into the development workflow itself: tickets tagged for AI get their own AI developer node spun up automatically, every code change goes through a dedicated AI reviewer, and the team is actively expanding what agentic workflows get to own. It's a rare combination, startup-style ownership and pace, inside a stable, well-established, and profitable company with real customers and real room to keep growing.

The Role  You'd be joining a small team of 4 that's about to double in size. Expect to stay genuinely hands-on: 60–70% of your time is coding, architecture, and system design, even as the team scales under you. The rest is running the team well, agile ceremonies, 1:1s, tech-debt tracking, and representing the team's technical decisions in leadership conversations.
What You'll Do   Stay hands-on: ~60–70% of your time is coding, architecture and system design, even as the team scales.
Own the backlog with the team's product owner: grooming, estimation, and sprint planning.
Hold regular 1:1s and check‑ins, and flag delays or blockers before they become surprises.
Partner with the team's tester on coverage and test automation, especially for AI-driven features.
Track tech debt and flag dependencies approaching end of support, with a clear line open to product.
Own high‑level system architecture and end‑to‑end workflow design, and explain both clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.
Represent the team's technical decisions in bi‑weekly leadership meetings
Mentor and coach your team, including performance reviews.
Build out team process and structure as headcount roughly doubles under you.

Who You Are  You're a proven technical lead who's already done this, not someone looking for their first shot 're genuinely AI-native in how you build, comfortable owning architecture and system design, and you communicate risk and tradeoffs before they become someone else's surprise.
You Must Have   Proven Team Lead experience: system design and architecture ownership, backlog management and reporting, engineering workflow optimization, presenting and defending timelines to leadership, performance conversations, coaching and mentoring engineers.
Hands‑on experience with agentic AI workflows in development, not just using an AI chat assistant.
Strong architecture and systems design instincts.
Experience working in an Agile environment.
Solid foundation in C#/.NET (.NET 10), Type Script, and REST API design.
Real CI/CD ownership.
Cloud deployment experience (AWS preferred, but not mandatory).
Unit and integration testing as second nature.
It's a Bonus If You Have   Vue 3 specifically.
MongoDB.
Familiarity with other tools in the tech stack (outlined below)
Experience navigating a team through active growth.
Formal performance‑review experience (we'll support you here if you're newer to it).
Startup background, full software development lifecycle ownership, self‑directed learning style.
Frontend:  Vue 3, Type Script, Vite, Tailwind, RekaUI, Vitest, Playwright
CI/CD:  Git Hub Actions
Containerization:  Docker
What Success Looks Like   First 30 days: mostly learning, the product, the roadmap, internal processes…