Engineering Lead, Flywheel Partner Product

Requirements

• Have at least 6 years of professional software engineering experience using Java, with 2 years of experience managing the day to day technical operations teams.
• Have the ability to get into deep technical discussions and implementation details. Delegation and coordination is part of the job, but you are expected to make individual contributions alongside your team.
• Have experience building AI products using vector DB, RAG, LLM APIs, MCP, Agent frameworks, or Eval services, etc.
• Want to continue working in a hands-on builder role where you’ll spend a large portion of your time coding (Java).
• Prefer to ship and iterate, using customer feedback to improve the product.
• Hold a high bar for building outstanding products with world-class engineering best practices.
• Obsessed with customers—understanding their needs, solving their problems, and prioritizing work based on business impact.

What You'll Be Doing

• Engineering Leads are actively involved as a player-coach in building software and making products to solve customer problems. They are curious and involved in the technology as well as the people on their teams.
• They coach their engineers and Technical Leads and build productive, autonomous, and healthy teams. They focus on setting up their teams to grow more autonomous over time.
• They have a strong technical vision for how to implement the product vision. This can include working with teams they oversee and external teams to ensure that we are solving problems the best way for customers.
• They think about and implement ideas to push teams to improve technically.
• They work effectively across Product Managers and Product Designers to cultivate a strong product vision for their teams and are responsible for the mission, direction, and alignment.
• They are responsible for the Technical Leads on their team and provide mentoring, coaching, and feedback to help them grow and succeed in their role.
• They hold a high performance bar for their teams.
• People look to them and trust their product and technical leadership.
• They create and foster diverse teams and an inclusive culture.

Perks and Benefits

• We know the confidence gap and impostor syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
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