Technical Team Lead (React.js + Python)

We are looking for a hands-on, client-facing Technical Team Lead to take ownership of a long-term Real Estate SaaS platform with backend, web, mobile, and cloud infrastructure. You will lead an engineering team, turn product goals into reliable delivery
 

What you will own

• Client and technical leadership: lead regular syncs, clarify requirements and acceptance criteria, present solution options and trade-offs, provide estimates, communicate progress and risks, and obtain decisions before development starts
• Team leadership: manage the engineering team day to day through planning, delegation, feedback, performance management, and blockers removal
• Sprint and delivery ownership: refine the backlog, split epics into sprintable work, estimate and sequence delivery, manage dependencies, and balance new features with bugs and technical debt. Own technical delivery commitments and release readiness
• Engineering quality: review solution designs and pull requests, establish coding and review standards, and coordinate QA sign-off
• Hands-on contribution: spend approximately 20–30% of your time on critical code, prototypes, difficult debugging, hotfixes, CI/CD, or deployment work when the team needs support
   

Requirements

• 4.5+ years of commercial software engineering experience
• 2+ years as a Team Lead or Tech Lead with direct responsibility for engineers and delivery
• Strong system design and software architecture skills, with the ability to explain alternatives and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven experience with estimation, task decomposition, sprint planning, scope control, risk management, and delivery coordination
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar
• Confident client communication and English at B2 level or higher
• Strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to make decisions under ambiguity while keeping stakeholders aligned
   

Nice to have

• Experience with Python/Django, React/TypeScript, React Native, AWS, Terraform