Engineering Team Leader

About the company

This role sits with a globally distributed organisation that helps businesses hire, pay, and manage international teams in a compliant way. The company operates fully remotely, works asynchronously across multiple continents, and values innovation, inclusion, and practical use of automation and AI across its roles.

Candidates who are energetic, curious, driven, and ambitious are encouraged to apply and help shape the future of work.

Role overview

The Engineering Team Leader is accountable for a small engineering group and acts as the main voice for the team. The role focuses on creating strong team dynamics, helping engineers do their best work, and guiding the team toward efficient delivery. It combines people leadership with hands-on product development.

The team lead is expected to spend around 30% of their time on management responsibilities and the rest actively contributing to product work within the team. The role also includes supporting an engineering approach where autonomous agents are used as the default execution layer, with a focus on workflow design, verification, and quality controls.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a compact product engineering team of 3 to 5 backend and frontend engineers.
• Allocate about 30% of time to management duties while remaining hands-on in product development for the rest of the time.
• Participate in hiring for the team and, where needed, support hiring efforts for neighbouring teams.
• Own the onboarding experience for new engineers joining the team.
• Represent the team, manage day-to-day dynamics, and help each person perform at their best.
• Provide regular, constructive feedback across performance, collaboration, and delivery.
• Support the ongoing growth and career development of every direct report.
• Offer coaching and practical guidance to engineers on the team.
• Help redesign how engineering work is delivered using autonomous agents as the standard execution layer.
• Design, propose, and roll out agentic workflows from start to finish, covering specification, planning, execution, and verification.
• Create reusable agent-based workflows and building blocks that can be applied across multiple domains.
• Use checks, tests, evaluations, and guardrails to make outcomes accurate, secure, dependable, and scalable.

Requirements

• Prior experience managing an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Strong backend experience, ideally with Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or functional programming.
• A commitment to living and reinforcing the company’s values within the team and across the wider organisation.
• Deep engineering fundamentals with a history of shipping secure, reliable, and scalable production systems.
• Hands-on experience building or adopting automation or agent-based workflows, or comparable systems, and improving them through iteration.
• Ability to think in systems, define clear specifications, break work into plans, set up verification, and close quality loops.
• Clear and effective communication skills.
• Strong understanding of engineering principles and development best practices.
• Well-developed organisational skills and attention to detail.
• A process-oriented mindset paired with a kind, people-first leadership style.
• Ability to motivate others and build confidence within the team.
• Good understanding of how team dynamics work.
• A deliberate commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion.
• Strong automation and AI fluency.

Working style and practical details

This position reports to an Engineering Manager. The team typically includes 2 to 5 direct-report engineers and sits within the Engineering function. The role is open to candidates anywhere in the world, and the start date is expected to be as soon as possible.

Application process

The hiring process is expected to take about 6 hours spread across 6 weeks and includes the following stages:

• Conversation with a recruiter
• Interview with the hiring manager
• Asynchronous coding exercise and review
• Interview with team members
• Bar raiser interview
• Executive interview
• Offer stage and prior employment verification

Compensation and rewards

This is a full-time role with an annual base salary range of USD 7,540 to USD 169,700. Compensation is set using role level and location-based pay ranges, and the final offer depends on location, transferable skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market conditions. The pay range may change over time.

The organisation follows a pay-equity approach and reviews compensation changes for internal moves on a case-by-case basis. Benefits and rewards are designed to be competitive across the countries where the company operates.

Benefits and perks

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours in an asynchronous setup
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Mental health support
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget and IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

Work culture

The company works asynchronously, so schedules can be planned around life rather than meetings. Team members are expected to take ownership, act proactively, and choose action when there is uncertainty. A healthy work-life balance is actively supported.

How to apply

Applicants should submit the application form along with a CV in PDF format. Applications and CVs should be provided in English. If an up-to-date CV is not available, a LinkedIn profile may be shared instead.

Equal opportunity and inclusion

The organisation welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and prioritises belonging. It supports employee resource groups for women, disability, queer, and minorities in tech. Candidates who need accommodations are encouraged to request them during the hiring process. Applicants may also be asked to share pronouns during interviews and can optionally complete an anonymous demographic questionnaire.

Additional notes

The company values the thoughtful use of AI, while still prioritising human creativity and authenticity. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.