Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

Software powers the world, and LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control the best software. We serve hundreds of billions of feature flags daily, to help teams ship better software, faster and eliminate risk for companies big and small. We're based in downtown Oakland and growing quickly. You'll help us tackle some of the most challenging engineering problems around, like delivering feature flags to hundreds of millions of users all over the world in milliseconds. About the role: We're looking for a talented and inspirational engineer to help lead one of our five person development squads. Engineers in a team lead role can expect to spend about 50% of their time making direct engineering contributions and 50% leading and mentoring your team. This may fluctuate depending on the project and needs of the team, but we're always looking for people who are passionate about solving software problems.

Responsibilities:

• Work on critical development projects, both with direct code contributions and by helping your teammates move faster.
• Help your team make design and architectural decisions to ensure success.
• Anticipate the growth of our service and keep your parts of the service healthy.

Along with your colleagues in Product Management and Design, you will:

• Help your team understand their mission and how they fit in with the overall business goals,.
• Prioritize a roadmap that balances feature delivery, operational health, and bug fixing;
• Define and measure success in your areas;
• Lead your team to deliver while keeping your developers motivated, empowered, growing and happy.

Basic Qualifications:

• One or more years’ experience leading people: hiring, motivating, growing, empowering, and performance managing.
• A history of creating or maintaining great team cultures.
• Experience working on large-scale production systems.
• A hands-on foundation of software development knowledge that allows work side by side with your team.
• Skills and knowledge that will establish credibility with your team.
• A passion for sharing that knowledge and helping to raise the bar for everyone you work with.
• The ability to track and drive metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you.
• A drive to truly understand the needs of your customer, and the ability to translate those into business goals.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Building or managing highly distributed, high volume services with 24/7 operational needs.

About LaunchDarkly: LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 100 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry standard methodology of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka ”dark launching”). LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. Our team culture is dynamic, friendly, and supportive. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We've partnered with KeyValues to help demonstrate the amazing culture we've built here at LaunchDarkly, find more info at https://www.keyvalues.com/launchdarkly Apply for this job