Engineering Lead, Metalab

• To thrive in this role, you should be comfortable working directly with clients, enjoy working with designers, and exercise good judgment in technical decisions
• If you’re passionate about building high-quality products and working with talented cross-functional teams, then this could be the perfect role for you
• 6+ years of full-stack experience with expertise in Node.js and/or Python
• Experience building full-stack applications across both the frontend and service layer using modern Typescript frameworks (ie. React, React Native, Nest)
• 1+ years in a Lead role, ideally in an agency setting
• You care about people and are motivated to help your team members achieve success on projects and grow within their careers
• You can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences and are comfortable leading presentations of work frequently
• You can design and communicate strong technical solutions that our internal and client teams understand and want to work on and understand how to achieve compromise on business trade-offs and technical decisions
• You have experience creating both REST and GraphQL APIs that enable client applications to persist, process, and retrieve data from various types of databases (ie. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• You have experience developing and managing React-based UI toolkits as part of a Design System
• You have experience working on continuous integration/deployment pipelines (CI/CD)
• You’re adaptable and quick to embrace unexpected changes in direction
• You appreciate design and can protect its integrity without compromising fidelity or feasibility
• You’re motivated by feedback and by the opportunity to improve in your role, in the work, and in how you work together as a team

Desirable

• Our Engineering Leads are involved in projects from the very start—developing the product vision, defining the roadmap, and setting our engineers up for success
• As a Lead, you’ll also mentor other developers and help us evolve our processes
• Oversee all engineering activities throughout any given project, making technical decisions, keeping the team unblocked, and jumping into the code alongside your fellow engineers as needed
• Lead client presentations and conversations about technical strategy, team health, and delivery milestones like sprint-based demos and ongoing releases
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Client Partners, and Design Leads to plan and deliver our projects on time and to Metalab’s quality standards
• Coach and mentor other members of the technology team
• Foster an open, collaborative, and inclusive environment where our teams are empowered to do their best work
• Help grow the Engineering team by participating in hiring interviews and regular code reviews, making suggestions for improvements to process and standards
• Identify the department’s opportunities for growth and help develop side initiatives that enrich Metalab’s engineering practices