Engineering Lead

About the Role

We're a fast-moving, early-stage B2B SaaS company building products in the identity and access management space. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to guide a small-to-medium engineering team, shape our technical direction, and drive the delivery of reliable, scalable software. This role blends hands-on technical judgment with people leadership — you'll set the bar for engineering quality while building an empowered, ownership-driven team culture.

This is an on-site role based in Los Angeles, CA. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

What You'll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to deliver against product goals and grow individual technical capabilities.

• Define and communicate technical strategy, architecture decisions, and roadmap priorities.

• Own delivery quality and operational reliability for services and systems.

• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to align engineering work with business objectives.

• Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, code review standards, and CI/CD workflows.

• Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering talent through hands-on coaching and structured feedback.

• Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, scalability, and maintainability in day-to-day implementation decisions.

• Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement across the team.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves:

• 5+ years in engineering leadership roles, with a proven track record of delivering production software products.

• Prior experience shipping products in startups, early-stage companies, or similarly fast-paced environments.

• Hands-on software development experience with a modern web stack and a history of delivering production-quality systems.

• Experience architecting and delivering scalable back-end APIs, data models, and cloud infrastructure for web applications.

• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams — mentoring engineers, running hiring, and defining development processes.

• Comfort with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills — you've worked alongside product, design, and data teams to define roadmaps and deliverables.

• Solid computer science fundamentals and the ability to reason rigorously about architecture, performance, and reliability.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with authentication systems, security best practices, and permissions models in SaaS environments.

• Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as TypeScript/React and modern web UI development.

• Experience with monitoring, instrumentation, distributed tracing, metrics dashboards, and incident response.

Location

This is a full-time, on-site position based in Los Angeles, CA. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States — visa sponsorship is not available.