[Hiring] Tech Lead Engineer @DealRoom Inc

Role Description

You'll lead a small product team alongside a PM. You write code, set technical direction, and own delivery. Think player-coach, not manager.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all aspects of product development — from discovery and architecture to implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Partner with PM on product direction: join customer calls, validate feasibility, shape what gets built.
• Write code daily. You're hands-on in the codebase.
• Own technical standards for your team — code quality, architecture decisions, monitoring, definition of done.
• Break down ambiguous product goals into shippable increments. Drive iteration cadence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems in Python. Strong in API design, PostgreSQL, and clean, well-tested code.
• You've led a team (formally or informally) and owned team outcomes, not just your own output. You set standards, drive quality, and ensure responsible delivery.
• You ship and learn, not plan and perfect.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. You help the team pick a direction, start iterating, and course-correct based on what you learn. You know where to cut corners and can explain the tradeoffs.
• Product-minded. You think in user outcomes, not tasks. You ask "why" and "for whom" before "how."
• Good English communication skills. Clear async writing, ability to explain complex technical ideas simply, effective across timezones. Engineers are in EU, PMs and customers are in US.

Requirements

• Can contribute across the full stack when needed — you understand frontend constraints and how backend decisions impact UX.
• Practical experience shipping AI-powered features — LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG. You use AI tools in your own workflow.
• Tech stack: AWS, Django, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Vue.

Benefits

• Remote work, with some overlap with US east business hours.
• Competitive PTO.
• Career development support and learning budget.
• Equity, bonus plans.
• Work device provided.