Software Engineering Team Lead – React/Node/PostgreSQL

The Engineering Team Lead will direct a distributed software development team executing a portfolio of

50+ concurrent projects across multiple operating companies, including manufacturing, staffing and

family office investments. This role is responsible for translating business priorities into a coherent

delivery plan, managing developers across application and integration disciplines, maintaining

engineering standards, and serving as the senior technical partner to operating-company leaders. The

ideal candidate has proven experience leading remote development teams, strong program and project

management discipline, and deep technical fluency across modern web, enterprise, and data platforms.

**Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Development**

• Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed team of application and integration developers across

multiple time zones.

• Set and maintain engineering standards covering code review, branching, testing, release

cadence, and incident response.

• Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, and career development planning for each

direct report.

• Identify gaps on the team and drive recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding of new developers.

**Project &Portfolio Management**

• Own a live backlog of 50+ projects across multiple operating companies and prioritize,

sequence, and scope work with ruthless clarity.

• Translate operator and executive requirements into shippable project scope, milestones, and

delivery plans.

• Run a transparent weekly delivery cadence with clear status, risks, and next steps visible to

leadership.

• Make tradeoff calls on cost, speed, and quality across competing business priorities.

**Technical Delivery & Architecture**

• Review and approve architecture and major technical decisions across all active projects.
• Stay hands-on enough to read any pull request, unblock any developer, and contribute code

during crunch or new-domain discovery.

• Own the engineering posture around AI-augmented development tools, automation platforms,

and modern build patterns.

• Ensure security, performance, and reliability standards are met across the portfolio.

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for operating-company leaders across

manufacturing, staffing, import/export, family office, and real estate.

• Partner with business stakeholders to shape roadmaps, set expectations, and communicate

delivery progress.

• Coordinate with external vendors, consultants, and enterprise platform partners as needed.
• Train and enable business users on new applications, tools, and workflows.

**Qualifications**

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related

field (or equivalent experience).

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• 4+ years leading distributed software development teams of five or more developers.
• Demonstrated ownership of a multi-product or multi-domain engineering portfolio.
• Strong technical depth across modern web (React, TypeScript, Tailwind) and backend (Node.js,

PostgreSQL, Supabase or equivalent).

• Working knowledge of at least one major enterprise platform (NetSuite – preferred, Salesforce,

SAP, Dynamics, Bullhorn, or equivalent).

• Experience running async-first teams with strong written documentation standards.
• Hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot).
• Proven project and program management discipline, including backlog management,

estimation, and stakeholder communication.

• Experience with automation platforms (n8n, Workato, Zapier, Make) is preferred.
• Prior experience in manufacturing, staffing, financial services, or multi-entity holding company

environments is a plus.

**Work Environment + Language Requirements**

• Global remote position
• Requires at least 4 hours of overlap with U.S. Central Time each day
• Minimal travel, with occasional U.S. travel for leadership offsites
• Fluency in the English language; written and verbal proficiency (B2 level minimum on CEFR

scale)

• Reports directly to the Owner / CEO

This is a remote opportunity.