About the Role
We're a fast-moving, early-stage B2B SaaS company building products in the identity and access management space. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to guide a small-to-medium engineering team, shape our technical direction, and drive the delivery of reliable, scalable software. This role blends hands-on technical judgment with people leadership — you'll set the bar for engineering quality while building an empowered, ownership-driven team culture.
This is an on-site role based in Los Angeles, CA. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
What You'll Do
Lead and mentor a team of engineers to deliver against product goals and grow individual technical capabilities.
Define and communicate technical strategy, architecture decisions, and roadmap priorities.
Own delivery quality and operational reliability for services and systems.
Collaborate closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to align engineering work with business objectives.
Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, code review standards, and CI/CD workflows.
Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering talent through hands-on coaching and structured feedback.
Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, scalability, and maintainability in day-to-day implementation decisions.
Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement across the team.
What We're Looking For
Must-haves:
5+ years in engineering leadership roles, with a proven track record of delivering production software products.
Prior experience shipping products in startups, early-stage companies, or similarly fast-paced environments.
Hands-on software development experience with a modern web stack and a history of delivering production-quality systems.
Experience architecting and delivering scalable back-end APIs, data models, and cloud infrastructure for web applications.
Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams — mentoring engineers, running hiring, and defining development processes.
Comfort with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills — you've worked alongside product, design, and data teams to define roadmaps and deliverables.
Solid computer science fundamentals and the ability to reason rigorously about architecture, performance, and reliability.
Nice-to-haves:
Experience with authentication systems, security best practices, and permissions models in SaaS environments.
Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as TypeScript/React and modern web UI development.
Experience with monitoring, instrumentation, distributed tracing, metrics dashboards, and incident response.
Location
This is a full-time, on-site position based in Los Angeles, CA. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States — visa sponsorship is not available.
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