At simpleclub, one mission unites us all: to create a change in education. Hundreds of thousands of trainees, trainers and students use our platform every month, and we're making their vocational training experience radically better in over 40 occupations.

Team Red owns the learning management system that powers that experience and integrates it into our users' day-to-day: onboarding & discovery, learning management tools and the AI assistant that's transforming trainers' day-to-day work. As the Lead Engineer for Team Red, you'll build both the product and grow the team. We're not looking for someone to just manage delivery, we want a product engineer at heart: someone who cares about customer value as much as technical excellence. Working closely with our VP of Engineering and our product and technical leadership, you'll own the performance, experience and scalability of this part of the product, shape what we build and why, lead the design of a scalable target architecture, and drive down technical debt, always with the customer outcome in mind.

Lead an ai-native, cross-functional team building simpleclub's products and platform: onboarding & discovery, learning management tools and the AI assistant transforming trainers' day-to-day work. You'll stay hands-on: writing and maintaining code, and contributing actively to the innovation and solutioning.
Line-manage and grow your team through feedback, clear growth paths, and mentorship.
Set standards with other leads and engineers across architecture, development, delivery and operations, for high velocity and a scalable, reliable system.
Identify, scope, prioritize and resolve technical debt with your team and your Product Manager.
Co-lead the product and technical OKRs for your team, driving measurable impact for customers.
Partner with Product Managers and designers through research and validation, as a true product trio.

1-2+ years leading engineering teams, on top of several years as an IC Product Engineer.
A track record of designing technical solutions for complex, large-scale problems in senior roles.
A history of innovating and shipping customer-valued solutions, going beyond just developing tickets.
You use AI coding tools daily and can lead a team through the shift. You understand how AI already changes engineering roles and delivery, you're continuously learning, and you're ready to set the standard for agentic tooling (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) on your team.
Strong computer science and software fundamentals: architecture and database design, data structures, and algorithms.
Experience in building and scaling systems in multi-team setups, highly scalable, fast to develop, reliable and secure.
High sense of ownership and accountability for the domains your team owns and its mission.
Strong with modern system architectures: cloud-based, serverless, messaging systems, NoSQL and SQL databases.
Strong with our backend stack: Node.js, TypeScript, GCP, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub.
Excellent, async-first communication. You foster teamwork and knowledge sharing beyond engineering, and lead through change and ambiguity while inspiring others.

Not a Must, but Nice to have:

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), large-scale distributed systems, and GCP at scale.
Solid grounding in and appreciation of DevOps.
Good knowledge of frontend engineering and a drive for cross-functional development.
Experience leading multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives.
Experience in product trios or similar setups where engineers shape the product, not just build what's specced.

Our Tech Stack:
Node.js, TypeScript, Flutter, GCP (Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub), Terraform, agentic dev tools (Claude Code, Codex)

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