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.