Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PlanHub is a pre-construction SaaS platform and marketplace connecting contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers. The Engineering Lead will guide the architecture and evolution of the email delivery platform, manage and mentor a team of engineers, and build reliable, scalable cloud-native systems. The role will also integrate AI-driven insights and predictive analytics while partnering with product and engineering leadership on technical solutions and roadmap planning.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction, design, and continuous improvement of PlanHub's email delivery systems, focusing on decoupling service boundaries, event driven architecture, and operational resilience
- Architect and implement cloud-native solutions using AWS services, including building and evolving infrastructure as code with Terraform / OpenTofu and containerized workloads deployed via ECS
- Manage, support, and mentor a team of engineers, promoting sound software architecture, cloud-native practices, observability, and operational excellence
- Champion reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and observability across the platform, utilizing tools like Datadog for monitoring, alerting, and incident investigation
- Establish patterns for safely and effectively using AI coding agents, such as Claude Code, across design, implementation, debugging, and maintenance to improve developer productivity
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and contribute to roadmap planning
- Partner with application and infrastructure teams across the engineering organization to elevate technical practices, drive architectural consistency, and improve overall engineering maturity
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, backend systems, or platform development
- 3+ years in a technical leadership role (Staff, Principal, Team Lead, or Architect) with experience managing and mentoring engineering teams
- Strong experience and deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and integration patterns, with a proven ability to design, deliver, and operate observable, resilient, and scalable production systems
- Deep expertise in relational databases, specifically MySQL, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling
- Experience leading teams working in PHP or similar dynamically-typed backend languages
- Extensive experience with AWS services for compute, storage, messaging, monitoring, and operational reliability
- Experience building and operating containerized applications using orchestration like ECS, and provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and/or OpenTofu
- Proven ability to lead technical decision-making while remaining hands-on with implementation
- Experience using AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to improve software delivery, coupled with strong engineering judgment and quality controls
- Proficiency with modern development workflows and collaboration tools like GitHub and observability platforms such as Datadog
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in complex production environments
- This position will be a remote position within the United States or Canada
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer within the United States or Canada
- Experience with high-volume transactional email systems, deliverability concepts, or messaging platforms
- Experience modernizing legacy systems into more scalable and maintainable services
- Experience shaping engineering standards or development practices around AI-assisted software delivery
Benefits
- An awesome culture where you will be empowered, make an impact, and learn a ton
- Remote friendly
- Open time-off policy
- 401(k)/GRSP plan with a company match
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