Product Lead Engineer

Accountabilities:

• • Serve as the technical authority across multiple development teams, making implementation decisions, resolving technical disagreements, and maintaining high engineering standards.
  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex features across backend, frontend, and mobile platforms, from design and implementation through deployment and monitoring.
  • Break down ambiguous requirements into clearly scoped technical tasks and proactively identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks.
  • Maintain an active player-coach role by regularly contributing high-quality production code and demonstrating strong engineering practices.
  • Conduct thorough and constructive code reviews that improve software quality and support the development of less experienced engineers.
  • Mentor Software Engineers through pairing, design discussions, technical guidance, and hands-on coaching.
  • Drive best practices across testing, branching strategies, documentation, security, and overall software development practices.
  • Collaborate with Product, QA, and Customer Success teams to clarify requirements, estimate work accurately, and deliver reliable features on schedule.
  • Communicate technical risks, progress, decisions, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Take primary ownership of one or more significant product areas, developing deep expertise in their architecture, behavior, and failure modes.
  • Act as the authoritative technical resource for decisions and issues within owned product areas.
  • Lead knowledge transfer and cross-training to ensure critical product expertise is distributed across the team and does not create individual bottlenecks.
  • Participate actively in cross-training led by other engineers to build broader familiarity with product areas and strengthen team resilience.

  Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience, including experience working in production SaaS environments.
  • Deep proficiency in PHP and JavaScript/React, including software design patterns, performance optimization, and security best practices.
  • Strong knowledge of relational database design, data modeling, and SQL optimization, particularly with MySQL or MariaDB.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and upskill less experienced engineers.
  • Strong technical problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to lead engineering work across complex and ambiguous requirements.
  • Effective communication skills for collaborating with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools and modern AI-enabled development workflows.

  Benefits:

  • Fully remote position.
  • Full-time opportunity with significant technical ownership and leadership responsibility.
  • Opportunity to influence engineering standards across multiple Agile Scrum teams.
  • Hands-on player-coach environment combining technical leadership with production development.
  • Broad exposure to backend, frontend, and mobile software delivery.
  • Meaningful ownership of critical product areas, architecture, and technical decisions.
  • Opportunity to mentor engineers and contribute to team-wide technical capability and knowledge sharing.
  • Collaborative work with Product, QA, and Customer Success teams.
  • Opportunity to work with modern AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows.