[Remote] Engineering Lead

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