Product Lead Engineer

This is a remote position. The Product Lead Engineer serves as the technical authority across multiple Agile scrum teams inside a vertical product.

This role carries no personnel management responsibilities but holds the highest technical voice within the team — setting direction, making implementation calls, and ensuring the team delivers reliable, well-engineered software.

Beyond their own contributions, the Product Lead Engineer's output raises the technical capability of everyone around them.

Core Responsibilities Technical Team Leadership Serve as the technical authority within the development teams — making implementation decisions, resolving technical disagreements, and ensuring the team operates to a consistently high engineering standard.

Lead end-to-end delivery of complex features across backend, frontend, and mobile platforms — from design through deployment and monitoring — while actively guiding teammates through their portions of the work.

Decompose ambiguous requirements into well-scoped tasks; proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks.

Regularly and actively contribute production code (player-coach role) as a consistent, high-quality committer who models the engineering standards the rest of the organization is held to.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship Conduct thorough, constructive code reviews that improve quality and accelerate the growth of junior engineers. Mentor Software Engineers through pairing, design discussions, and regular technical guidance.

Drive best practices for testing, branching, documentation, and security within the team. Cross-Functional Collaboration Collaborate with Product, QA, and Customer Success to clarify requirements, estimate accurately, and deliver reliable features on schedule.

Communicate clearly and proactively about technical risks, progress, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Technical Ownership & Cross-Training Take primary owne