Tech Lead - Product Engineering

The role

You will own the technical direction of the email builder team as an individual contributor. You will lead architectural discussions, contribute to the codebase, and mentor engineers to ensure system scalability and reliability.

What you will do

• Lead architectural and technical discussions within the team
• Guide the technical direction of the team
• Promote engineering best practices including security, data privacy, observability, and reliability
• Contribute directly to the codebase
• Improve system architecture, scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Drive complex technical initiatives and refactoring efforts
• Mentor and support engineers in their technical growth
• Provide technical input to hiring and team growth decisions
• Work with other Tech Leads, platform teams, and SRE to align on standards
• Own system availability and reliability

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and shipping high-quality software
• 5+ years of technical leadership within engineering teams
• Strong experience designing scalable web applications and APIs
• Solid understanding of software architecture, data modeling, and design patterns
• Experience working in modern web development environments
• Experience leading large refactoring initiatives in complex systems
• Strong JavaScript expertise and experience with frameworks
• Experience with server-side languages such as PHP, Node.js, Golang, or Python
• Strong knowledge of web architecture, APIs, and distributed systems
• Experience with relational and document databases (MySQL, MongoDB)
• Strong testing and quality practices including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, and frameworks
• Strong refactoring skills and commitment to code quality

Nice to have

• Vue.js preferred, React or other mainstream frameworks considered
• Experience building high-performance or high-availability applications
• Experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or Zend
• Experience with functional programming concepts

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including equity
• Company laptop
• Flexible time off policy
• The opportunity to lead technical decision-making and shape the platform’s architecture
• A collaborative and inclusive engineering culture
• The chance to help build the next phase of the Stensul platform

About the company

Stensul is the Governed Creation™ Platform for enterprise marketing teams that need to create campaigns quickly, safely, and at scale. They are a people-first team that values inclusive collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning.