Engineering Team Lead (Intelligence Platform)

Join our team as an Engineering Team Lead for the Intelligence Platform in New York. This hands-on technical leadership role involves setting direction and coordinating execution for a seven-person engineering pod while continuing to contribute to the codebase. You will lead technical architecture decisions, drive project delivery, and partner with product, design, and engineering stakeholders. The ideal candidate has deep software engineering experience, strong architectural judgment, and a product-focused mindset.

• Lead technical architecture decisions for Intelligence Platform systems, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and delivery speed.
• Drive project delivery across team initiatives, establishing clear milestones, ownership, timelines, and quality expectations.
• Set technical direction for a seven-person engineering pod by mentoring teammates, raising engineering standards, and helping the team execute effectively.

• This role is ideal for an experienced senior engineer ready to take on broader team leadership responsibilities—driving technical architecture, project delivery, and stakeholder alignment while helping guide a high-performing engineering pod
• You’ll bring deep software engineering experience, strong architectural judgment, and a product-focused mindset to the team responsible for the reusable services and controls that power the Grata platform
• You’ll help ensure these systems are reliable, composable, scalable, and safe for both users and agents
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex systems or platform initiatives
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to align product, design, engineering, and senior stakeholders around decisions, tradeoffs, and delivery plans
• Experience providing technical leadership through mentorship, team coordination, execution planning, and cross-functional communication
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and facilitation skills
• A track record of leading complex projects from planning through delivery, with clear milestones, ownership, and high-quality outcomes
• A hands-on engineering mindset and the ability to balance writing code with broader technical and team leadership responsibilities
• Strong technical architecture skills, including experience designing scalable systems and guiding implementation across multiple engineers
• Experience navigating competing priorities and driving alignment across senior stakeholders