Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optimal builds research tools that help teams make data-driven decisions through user research. The Engineering Team Lead will combine hands-on software engineering with technical and people leadership, shaping architecture and strategy, supporting delivery, mentoring engineers, and leading reliability practices.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship: Stay hands-on with the codebase, contributing to the design and development of scalable, reliable systems
- Shape how we build: Partner with other technical leaders and the CTPO to define and evolve our engineering strategy, architecture, and platform foundations
- Use AI to move faster: Explore and implement ways to leverage AI tools to improve developer productivity and accelerate delivery
- Own delivery: Partner closely with Product and Design to break down problems, plan effectively, and ship with confidence
- Unblock and support the team: Keep things moving, remove friction, and help the team hit their goals
- Grow people: Mentor engineers, support their development, and create a high performing culture of learning, ownership, and feedback
- Own reliability and operability: Lead site reliability practices across the team - including observability, incident response, on-call, and building systems that are scalable, secure, and resilient
Skills
- * Entrepreneurial mindset: You think beyond your team - you care about the product, the customer, and the business, and you're motivated to make an impact
- * Technical and people leadership experience: You've led or mentored engineers and can guide technical decisions without needing to own everything
- * Product mindset: You care about outcomes, not just output - and enjoy working closely with product and design
- * Get things done: You bring energy, momentum, and a bias for action. You're pragmatic and not afraid to make decisions and move forward
- * Excited about AI: You're excited about how AI can improve the way we build software and are keen to experiment and apply it in practice
- * Comfortable with ambiguity: You can work with high-level goals and help shape the path forward
- * Experience with our stack (or similar): React, Ruby on Rails, AWS, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD technologies
Benefits
- An opportunity to join our Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) to help you benefit from the long-term success of the company
- Annual wellbeing allowance and support
- Home office set-up support
- 4 weeks annual leave plus an additional day off on your birthday
- Flexible and remote first working (our HQ is based in Wellington, NZ, but this role can be based anywhere in New Zealand or Australia)
Company Overview
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