Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Key is a provider of knowledge, tools, services, and resources for education leaders. The company is seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to run a product squad building its compliance suite, combining hands-on technical leadership, architecture ownership, product partnership, and line management of 2–3 engineers. The role also involves driving AI-native engineering practices and coordinating with other engineering squads.
Responsibilities
- Code regularly alongside the squad, setting the quality bar through your own work and code review
- Own the architecture of the squad’s apps and services, including long-term codebase health and safe operability after launch
- Act as the squad’s Tech Lead under the Product Operating Model: a peer in weekly discovery, with feasibility sign-off on product briefs before work enters the sprint board
- Ship tested working code to main every sprint; launch on the termly cadence
- Join customer conversations often enough to stay in direct contact with the problem
- Line-manage the squad: regular 1-2-1s, development plans, and honest performance conversations
- Build an engaged, sustainable squad culture as part of the engineering leadership group
- Work agentic-first as your default mode and drive adoption across the squad
- Contribute to shared agentic practice across the engineering organisation (skills, tooling, codebase AI-health)
- Coordinate with the other squad leads, the Staff Engineer, and the Platform and Core squads on shared services and dependencies
- Consume shared AI services rather than rebuilding them, flagging cross-squad constraints early
Skills
- A senior engineer who still ships, with strong recent experience of modern web stacks (we use TypeScript/React/Node and Python)
- Daily, enthusiastic use of agentic coding tools (Claude Code or similar) and a track record of raising others' AI-assisted practice
- Proven leadership of a team (tech lead, lead engineer, or manager of a small team), including architectural ownership and mentoring
- Comfortable in discovery, trading scope with product peers, and offering alternatives rather than blockers
- Line management experience, or clear readiness for it with support
- Excellent written and spoken English, for product peers and engineers alike
- Experience building LLM-powered product features
- SaaS, EdTech, or compliance experience
- Comfort with small-company pace and legacy code alongside greenfield work
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Good work-life balance
- Training and support to succeed in the role and continue to progress
- Generous holiday allowance
- Flexible hours
- Buying and selling holiday
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Free breakfast, fruit, and drinks
- Regular socials
Company Overview
Company H1B Sponsorship