[Remote] Engineering Lead

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PlanHub is a pre-construction SaaS platform and marketplace connecting general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers. The Engineering Lead will guide the architecture and evolution of the company’s critical email delivery platform, lead a team of engineers, and build reliable, scalable cloud-native systems. The role will also integrate AI-driven insights and predictive analytics into communication workflows.

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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