Engineering Team Lead

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Engineering Team Lead managing Brahma AI’s backend and fullstack engineers. Driving delivery, technical quality, and scalable generative media SaaS platform development.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the Brahma Studio engineering team of 8–10 backend and fullstack engineers
  • Report directly to the VP of Engineering
  • Translate product roadmaps and PRDs into clear engineering milestones
  • Maintain predictable release schedules and establish efficient stand-ups and execution workflows
  • Identify technical risks, clear blockers, and make pragmatic trade-offs to keep code moving to production
  • Manage and mentor engineers through 1:1s and structured career development
  • Partner with the System Architect to shape technical vision and enforce code quality benchmarks
  • Enforce engineering rigor across code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and shift-left quality and security practices
  • Build internal PoCs, demo tools, and custom AI skills
  • Integrate AI-assisted development tools into daily workflows
  • Ensure comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting using DataDog
  • Serve as the primary engineering escalation point for Studio engineering
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, the System Architect, and leadership on platform development commitments
  • Contribute to technical decisions and write code for less than 20% of the role

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 8–10 direct reports
  • Strong track record of structured mentorship, regular 1:1 cadences, and predictable delivery
  • Proven ability to break complex platform requirements into iterative technical deliverables and maintain consistent delivery schedules
  • Strong background in technical decision-making, code reviews, and mentorship
  • Experience applying AI-assisted development tools and LLM integration workflows
  • Solid expertise in server-side Python, RESTful API design, microservices architectures, relational databases (PostgreSQL), and asynchronous/caching layers (Redis, background workers)
  • Practical experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD automation, and cloud observability platforms
  • Excellent communication skills, with a track record of setting clear expectations, addressing scope creep early, and communicating technical trade-offs candidly
  • Understanding of media processing pipelines (FFmpeg, video encoding) or AI model serving (latency, inference) [nice to have]
  • Exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or multi-cloud architecture [nice to have]

Benefits:

  • No benefits, perks, or additional compensation explicitly stated