Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kenect is a leading AI-powered texting and reputation management platform used by over 10,000 dealerships and service businesses across North America. They are seeking a senior-level Engineering Team Lead to guide a team of engineers in developing frontend and backend solutions, while also mentoring team members and ensuring high-quality delivery of software products.

Responsibilities

• Lead frontend development across our React and TypeScript web applications, while also contributing to Java and Node.js backend services to deliver complete, end-to-end features
• Partner closely with Product and UX to translate requirements into well-scoped technical tasks, owning epic breakdown and ensuring your team has clarity before work begins
• Serve as the primary technical voice for your team in architecture discussions, sprint planning, and cross-team collaboration, representing engineering tradeoffs and timelines clearly and consistently
• Mentor and develop engineers at varying skill levels through code reviews, pair programming, 1:1s, and day-to-day coaching, with an eye toward growing ownership and autonomy across the team
• Monitor team workflow metrics, facilitate retrospectives, and proactively identify and remove blockers to keep delivery moving and quality high
• Own your team's technical debt backlog, propose and prioritize tech epics each quarter, and champion the documentation and architectural decisions that keep the codebase healthy over time
• Oversee production reliability for your team's services, including on-call rotation management, incident response, and ensuring new code ships with proper monitoring and alerting in place
• Participate in hiring, including interviewing candidates and making recommendations, and support onboarding of new team members as the team grows

Skills

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong concentration in frontend development using React and TypeScript, and comfort operating across the full stack when the work demands it
• Proven experience leading or technically anchoring an engineering team in an agile environment, including owning sprint planning, epic breakdown, estimation, and retrospectives
• Deep fluency in the frontend ecosystem including JavaScript, CSS/SASS, HTML, and the DOM, with a track record of building high-quality, accessible, and well-tested UIs
• Solid full stack capability with backend proficiency in both Node.js and Java Spring Boot, including the ability to design and integrate REST or GraphQL APIs and work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience working within a microservices architecture deployed to a cloud platform (GCP or AWS), including an understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and production monitoring
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, conduct meaningful code reviews, and raise the technical bar of a team through coaching and example rather than top-down direction
• Strong instincts around code quality, test coverage, and system reliability, with hands-on experience managing incidents, post-mortems, and on-call responsibilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous product requirements into clear technical plans and represent your team effectively across engineering leadership, product, and design

Benefits

• Health, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability Insurance
• Your birthday is a paid day off
• Onsite gym
• Breakroom full of snacks and drinks
• Convenient location next to freeway entrance/exit

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