Team Lead Engineering

About Unleash

Unleash is an open source feature management platform that helps development teams experiment faster while reducing the risks of releasing software in production. Our mantra is Create with freedom. Release with confidence.

Modern software teams move fast but releasing safely is still one of the hardest parts of building software. That is why we created Unleash. Our platform allows teams to separate deployment from release run controlled experiments and roll out new functionality safely in production through feature flags gradual rollouts and experimentation.

What started as an open source project on GitHub in 2015 became a company in Oslo in 2019. Today Unleash is used by thousands of development teams worldwide from startups to large enterprises running mission critical systems. We recently announced our Series B funding and continue to scale globally as a remote first company.

As we grow we are making a deliberate investment in engineering leadership. We are building a small group of experienced Team Leads who alongside contributing hands on as engineers will help develop the exceptional technical talent already inside the company. This role is designed for senior engineers who care deeply about both technical quality and creating the conditions for a team to thrive.

About the position

As a Team Lead at Unleash you will split your time roughly 70/30 between hands on engineering and leading a squad of four engineers.

You will stay close to the platform and the code while also taking real ownership of your squads growth delivery and team health. This is not a role where leadership happens separately from engineering. We believe the best coaching happens close to the work itself through collaboration feedback technical discussions and shared ownership of outcomes.

You will work on a modern platform built around TypeScript React PostgreSQL and AWS.

Responsibilities:

As a Software Engineer

Product development

• Take end to end ownership of features from discovery and design to deployment and improvements in production

• Work closely with product managers and designers to understand developer needs and shape solutions early

• Contribute to product discovery through technical input prototypes and experimentation

Technical excellence

• Maintain high engineering standards across frontend and backend systems

• Improve reliability scalability performance and maintainability of the platform

• Contribute to architectural discussions and long term technical direction

Reliability and operations

• Apply site reliability engineering principles to improve stability and reduce operational overhead

• Help automate operational workflows and improve developer experience internally

• Support investigation of production incidents and customer impacting issues when needed

As a Software Engineer

Coaching and people development

• Coach the engineers in your squad through day to day collaboration aligned to what they are actually building

• Support each engineers growth through feedback and development conversations

• Create an environment where engineers feel supported challenged and able to do their best work

Team leadership

• Drive performance reviews and contribute to promotion and compensation discussions together with the engineering director

• Act as hiring manager for your squad from defining needs to evaluating candidates and making hiring decisions

• Help maintain a healthy balance between autonomy alignment and ownership.

Organizational contribution

• Work closely with the other team leads and engineering leadership to improve process culture and engineering effectiveness across the organization

• Help shape how engineering leadership evolves as the company continues to scale

Who we believe you are

You are a senior engineer with strong technical instincts who has reached a point in your career where leading people feels just as meaningful as solving hard technical problems.

You have spent years building software and going deep technically. Now you also find real satisfaction in helping other engineers grow building strong teams and creating an environment where people can thrive and perform at a high level together.

We believe you:

• Bring 10 years of experience as an individual contributor and at least 2 years in a team lead or equivalent people leadership role

• Stay hands on technically and care deeply about engineering quality

• Have participated actively in promotion cycles and conducted a significant number of interviews

• Are a strong communicator comfortable navigating both technical and interpersonal situations

• Have experience building psychological safety and handling conflict constructively

• Thrive in environments where engineers are trusted with real ownership and autonomy

It is also nice if you have:

• Experience with compensation and benefits discussions

• Experience contributing to open source projects

• Experience working in startup or scaleup environments

What is in it for you

• Real ownership of your squad your systems and how the platform evolves

• A highly skilled engineering organization focused on building high quality developer tools

• A strong open source culture with users and contributors around the world

• Direct collaboration with product and engineering leadership

• A flexible remote first working environment

• Two company off sites per year where the whole team meets in European cities

• Everything you need to do your best work