Team Lead, Software Engineering

About Clutch

Clutch is Canadas largest online used car retailer delivering a seamless hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home get the right one delivered to their door and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee.

Named one of Canadas Top Growing Companies two years in a row and awarded a spot on LinkedIns Top Canadian Startups list were looking to add curious hard-working and driven individuals to our growing team.

Headquartered in Toronto Clutch was founded in 2017. Clutch is backed by world-class investors including Canaan BrandProject Real Ventures D1 Capital and Upper90. To learn more visit

Technology

• Full TypeScript stack for front- and back-end with some legacy JavaScript
• Front-end: ReactJS app with functional components and context API
• Back-end: ExpressJS with PostgreSQL database and Sequelize ORM
• Microservices architecture using Docker Terraform AWS ECS and other AWS services
• Interservice communication via RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka

About the role

Clutch is seeking a Team Lead Software Engineering to lead a team of engineers building and scaling our platform. This is a player-coach role: youll split your time roughly evenly between hands-on engineering and team leadership mentoring engineers owning team delivery and partnering with product to ship work that moves the business forward. Youll partner closely with other engineering leaders on technical direction and cross-team initiatives while owning the health growth and execution of your team.

What youll do

• Lead a team of 35 engineers owning their growth performance career development and day-to-day delivery
• Stay hands-on contributing roughly half your time to code architecture and technical design across the stack
• Partner with Product Design and Data to translate business priorities into a clear roadmap and well-scoped engineering work
• Drive execution and delivery for your team removing blockers managing trade-offs and keeping work aligned with business goals
• Coach engineers through peer review pairing system design discussions and regular 1:1s raising the bar on quality across the team
• Partner with Staff Engineers and other leads on cross-team architecture technical standards and platform direction
• Hire onboard and retain great engineers as the team grows

What were looking for

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent experience
• 7 years of industry experience building software with at least 12 years leading or managing engineers
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (TypeScript Python Go Ruby etc.) and frontend or backend frameworks (React Vue Express etc.)
• Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or Google Cloud) and microservices architecture
• Strong database skills with PostgreSQL or similar: schema design query optimization and performance tuning
• Proven track record of shipping complex projects end-to-end and balancing technical debt against new delivery
• Experience coaching and growing engineers running 1:1s giving feedback supporting career development and handling performance conversations
• Comfortable operating in Agile environments (Scrum or Kanban) using tools like Jira or GitHub Projects
• Strong communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with cross-functional stakeholders

Why youll love it at Clutch

• Autonomy & ownership create your own path and own your work
• Competitive compensation and equity incentives
• Generous time off program
• Health & dental benefits

Employment Type Existing Permanent Full-Time Hybrid

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $175000 - $225000
• Equity incentives
• Comprehensive healthcare dental vision life insurance and dependent coverage starting from day 1

Clutch is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. If you require accommodation at any stage of the interview process please email