Engineering Lead in New York at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Lead based in United States.

The Engineering Lead will own the technical direction and execution of major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will combine architecture, coding, technical problem-solving, and team mentorship.
You will design scalable and reliable systems spanning backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
Working within a distributed international engineering organization, you will turn complex and ambiguous product challenges into practical technical solutions.
You will influence architecture and engineering standards while balancing scalability, reliability, cost, maintainability, and delivery speed.
The role offers significant technical ownership and the opportunity to raise engineering quality across teams and products.
You will help build technology used by millions of users while collaborating with colleagues across multiple countries and time zones.

• Own the technical design, architecture, and execution of major products, systems, and engineering initiatives from conception through production.
• Design and develop scalable, reliable systems across backend and frontend applications, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Remain hands-on through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, performance optimization, and production issue resolution.
• Drive architecture decisions and clearly evaluate trade-offs involving scalability, reliability, cost, maintainability, security, and development speed.
• Translate ambiguous product and business requirements into well-defined technical solutions, implementation approaches, and execution plans.
• Lead technically critical initiatives and coordinate engineering efforts across teams when broader technical alignment is required.
• Raise engineering standards through stronger system design, automated testing, security practices, observability, and development processes.
• Identify and resolve complex technical and production challenges while maintaining a strong focus on reliability and customer impact.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and help develop engineering capabilities across teams.
• Contribute to the evolution of engineering practices, systems, and organizational capabilities as the business and technology landscape grows.
• Collaborate effectively with distributed colleagues across multiple products, countries, teams, and time zones.

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and delivering production systems.
• Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend engineering, frontend development, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and software architecture capabilities, particularly for complex, scalable, or high-availability systems.
• Excellent coding skills and a genuine willingness to remain actively involved in implementation and technical problem-solving.
• Demonstrated experience technically leading significant engineering projects from initial design through production deployment and ongoing operation.
• Strong judgment when making technical trade-offs, with the ability to balance business needs, engineering quality, delivery speed, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Ability to influence engineers and cross-functional stakeholders through clear communication, technical credibility, and practical decision-making.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including the ability to investigate and resolve complex production issues.
• Experience operating in a fast-moving environment where requirements, priorities, and technical challenges can evolve quickly.
• Experience scaling engineering teams, systems, or development practices through periods of significant growth is a plus.
• Experience working across multiple products, markets, or countries is advantageous.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across a globally distributed team.

• Fully remote position with the flexibility to work across locations and time zones.
• Opportunity to take significant ownership of technical direction and major engineering initiatives.
• Hands-on leadership role combining architecture, coding, technical strategy, and mentorship.
• Opportunity to build and improve products and systems serving millions of users.
• International, distributed working environment with colleagues across multiple countries and cultures.
• Strong opportunity for professional and technical growth as the organization and technology platform scale.
• Fast-moving environment that encourages ownership, innovation, and practical problem-solving.
• Interview process designed to move quickly, with an online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and final leadership round.
• For strong candidates, the hiring process aims to progress from interview start to offer within approximately one week, with faster completion of assessments prioritized.