[Hiring] Engineering Lead @PGLS

Role Description

Piedmont Global is looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead to own the end-to-end delivery of our core product platforms under the Director of Engineering. You will lead a small, autonomous squad responsible for shipping production software at speed, from prototype to production, while partnering directly with Product Management to turn business goals into working systems.

• Own the technical direction, delivery, and operational health of your squad's product area.
• Write production code daily, contributing directly to critical-path features, core libraries, and infrastructure.
• Prototype rapidly for new capabilities, validating approaches and leading your squad through hardening for production.
• Lead with AI-native development practices, using AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your workflow.
• Partner directly with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical plans.
• Perform rigorous code reviews and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Own your squad's CI/CD pipeline, deployment process, and production monitoring.
• Manage and hold accountable external development partners contributing to your squad's codebase.
• Collaborate with the Director of Engineering and other Squad Leads on cross-cutting concerns.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in a technical lead or team lead capacity.
• Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript (strict mode) and modern cloud-native architectures.
• Strong experience with AWS services (ECS/Fargate, SQS, S3, RDS/Aurora, Bedrock, or equivalent cloud platforms).
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools in daily engineering work.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Prisma or similar ORMs, and RESTful API design.
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration.
• Strong ownership mentality.
• Experience working with and holding accountable external vendors or contract developers.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms, particularly in regulated industries.
• Familiarity with HIPAA technical safeguards, FedRAMP security controls, or equivalent compliance frameworks.
• Experience with real-time communication platforms or language services technology.
• Experience with AI/ML integration, particularly LLM-powered features.
• Familiarity with Nx monorepos, Fastify, React 18+, and modern frontend tooling.
• Experience with Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Familiarity with Datadog, Sentry, or equivalent observability platforms.

Work Environment

This position can be remote or based out of our Arlington, VA office. Standard business hours apply, with the flexibility required to support a globally distributed team and respond to production incidents.