Software Engineering Team Lead

Compensation: $125K to $150K + bonus + RRSP match
The RoleYou'd be joining a small team of 4 that's about to double in size. Expect to stay genuinely hands-on: 60–70% of your time is coding, architecture, and system design, even as the team scales under you. The rest is running the team well, agile ceremonies, 1:1s, tech-debt tracking, and representing the team's technical decisions in leadership conversations.
What You'll Do
Stay hands-on: ~60–70% of your time is coding, architecture, and system design, even as the team scales.
Own the backlog with the team's product owner: grooming, estimation, and sprint planning.
Hold regular 1:1s and check-ins, and flag delays or blockers before they become surprises.
Partner with the team's tester on coverage and test automation, especially for AI-driven features.
Track tech debt and flag dependencies approaching end of support, with a clear line open to product.
Own high-level system architecture and end-to-end workflow design, and explain both clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Represent the team's technical decisions in bi-weekly leadership meetings
Mentor and coach your team, including performance reviews.
Build out team process and structure as headcount roughly doubles under you.
Who You AreYou're a proven technical lead who's already done this, not someone looking for their first shot at it. You're genuinely AI-native in how you build, comfortable owning architecture and system design, and you communicate risk and tradeoffs before they become someone else's surprise.
You Must Have
Proven Team Lead experience: system design and architecture ownership, backlog management and reporting, engineering workflow optimization, presenting and defending timelines to leadership, performance conversations, coaching and mentoring engineers.
Hands-on experience with agentic AI workflows in development, not just using an AI chat assistant.
Strong architecture and systems design instincts.
Experience working in an Agile environment.
Solid foundation in C#/.NET (.NET 10), TypeScript, and REST API design.
Real CI/CD ownership.
Cloud deployment experience (AWS preferred, but not mandatory).
Unit and integration testing as second nature.
It's a Bonus If You Have
Vue 3 specifically.
MongoDB.
Familiarity with other tools in the tech stack (outlined below)
Experience navigating a team through active growth.
Formal performance-review experience (we'll support you here if you're newer to it).
Startup background, full software development lifecycle ownership, self-directed learning style.
Frontend:
Vue 3, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind, RekaUI, Vitest, Playwright
CI/CD:
GitHub Actions
Containerization:
Docker
What Success Looks Like
First 30 days: mostly learning, the product, the roadmap, internal processes and tooling, the domain (CRM, banking, messaging systems, spec-driven development). Leaning on your manager and the product owner to ramp.
By 60 days: real, low-risk production work, plus a clear read on your own gaps and a plan to close them.
By 90 days: ramped to full capacity.
6–12 months in: full partnership with product on rollouts and optimization, owning release traceability, and moving into higher-leverage work like optimizing client onboarding.
Why Join
A real career ladder with clear steps and objectives: next stop is Staff-level developer, then a fork into your choice of architecture or management.
A genuinely AI-native team, not AI-curious: you'd be living spec-driven, agentic development day to day.
A small, close-knit team that supports each other.
An opportunity to work at a startup pace, while still having the benefit of a stable, profitable, and growing company.
$125K to $150K base + bonus + RRSP matching
Paid vacation starting at 3 weeks.
Extended health care, dental, and life insurance.
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