Full-Stack Team Lead (Remote)
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead and contribute to full-stack product development from back-end services and APIs to front-end experiences and templates. Build scalable features using large datasets by turning complex legal information into clear, useful, customer-facing product experiences. Partner closely with Product and Design to translate requirements into thoughtful, reliable applications. Triage incoming technical issues, bugs, and product requests, helping the team prioritize the right work and stay focused. Manage and support engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, coaching, career development, and project guidance. Collaborate with back-end, data science and R&D engineers on large-scale data initiatives, system improvements, and product launches. Provide technical leadership across projects, helping define implementation plans, review approaches, and ensure strong engineering standards. 70% hands-on development (full-stack), 30% team leadership and people management. Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Vue, vanilla JavaScript, and AWS.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience
- Experience leading engineers through complex projects (tech lead, engineering manager, or hands-on team lead)
- Strong Python experience and working knowledge of a Python web framework; Django experience is a plus
- Solid understanding of API architecture, front-end JavaScript frameworks, and server-rendered/front-end template development
- Ability to translate product and design requirements into clean, scalable, and maintainable applications
- Strong judgment balancing technical quality, product needs, team capacity, and delivery timelines
- Comfort managing both technical execution and people leadership responsibilities in a fast-paced environment
- BS/MS in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience
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