[Hiring] Engineering Team Lead @Ten Mile Square Technologies

Role Description

Ten Mile Square is seeking an experienced, hands-on Engineering Team Lead (SDET) to lead a team responsible for quality engineering, test automation, release engineering, and engineering enablement. The successful candidate will support the incremental modernization of a large-scale financial services platform, working across modern cloud technologies and complex legacy systems. This is an individual contributor role combining strong Agile leadership, software engineering expertise, and hands-on problem-solving. The ideal candidate embraces AI-assisted engineering, thrives in technically challenging environments, and enables teams to deliver high-quality software predictably and efficiently.

Compensation (Base + Standard Incentive Pay): $182,500 ($160K + $22,500)

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in test automation.
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Team Lead, providing hands-on technical leadership, Agile delivery leadership, and team mentorship.
• Strong understanding and practical application of Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, or comparable languages.
• Expertise designing and developing automation frameworks for distributed systems, APIs, and complex integrations.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Claude and AI-assisted software engineering tools.
• Experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, and modern software architectures.
• Experience managing complex test data and troubleshooting integration issues across multiple systems.
• Ability to work effectively with brittle, poorly documented, or legacy systems without requiring expertise in their underlying technologies.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, quality engineering, and maintainable code.

Requirements

• Self-motivated to PROACTIVELY identify and solve problems.
• Be passionate about what you do.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly.
• Strong Agile mindset with a commitment to team ownership and success.
• Resourceful, persistent, and comfortable navigating technical complexity and ambiguity.
• Detail-oriented.
• High integrity and quality of work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills – within team and with clients.

Benefits

• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (including family).
• 100% company paid individual short- and long-term disability.
• 100% company paid vision insurance.
• 3% company contribution to 401(k).
• 15 days paid time off per year + 1 day/year up to 20 days.
• 10 training days per year.
• 8 company holidays + 2 personal days.
• Individual performance-based quarterly cash incentive.
• Combined individual and company based annual cash incentive.
• Public transit reimbursement.