Team Lead, Software Engineer

The role

You will design and build production software while leading a small team of engineers. You will own technical initiatives, set architectural direction, and partner with Product and Design to ship features.

What you will do

• Spend the majority of your time designing and building production software
• Own complex technical initiatives from architecture through production
• Help define engineering standards and architectural direction
• Lead a small team of engineers through technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship
• Help engineers grow technically and professionally
• Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement
• Break large product initiatives into executable engineering plans
• Partner closely with Product and Design to turn ambitious ideas into customer-facing features
• Balance shipping velocity with long-term maintainability
• Remove technical blockers and help the team make smart engineering tradeoffs

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building production software
• Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Proven ability to deliver large technical projects while remaining hands-on
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture
• Excellent software design and architectural instincts
• Comfortable working across the entire software development lifecycle
• Strong communicator who enjoys collaborating across engineering, product, and design

Benefits

• Build foundational product features for an AI-first enterprise platform
• The opportunity to take ownership of critical systems that scale to millions of users
• A culture that values craftsmanship, autonomy, and user experience
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits package

About the company

STLabs is an AI service management platform that resolves employee requests end-to-end, grounded in a living model of the enterprise.