# Software Engineer Team Lead

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $269k – $335k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, TypeScript, Python, ai-native development workflows, internal tools development, Team Leadership, hiring and recruiting
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead a small high-velocity engineering team building internal operational software and tools for AI compute infrastructure buildout. Stay hands-on coding while owning priorities, delivery, engineer growth, hiring, and cross-functional product decisions.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Lead a team of engineers building the internal software the buildout runs on, staying hands-on in the code while owning delivery.
- Run the operating rhythm of a small, high-velocity team: priorities set, blockers cleared, and working software shipped weekly.
- Own the growth and performance of your engineers, and hire to keep pace as the tool surface expands with the company.
- Partner with product and the operating teams, manufacturing, delivery, operations, to decide what gets built next and what gets killed.

## What We're Looking For
- You've led a small engineering team that shipped fast, and the engineers you managed would work for you again.
- You still write and review production code, and your technical judgment holds up in an architecture debate.
- You've built internal tools or operational software where adoption, not launch, was the bar.
- You make priority calls quickly with imperfect information and own the outcome.
- You've hired engineers yourself: sourced them, closed them, and ramped them.

**Bonus:** AI-native development workflows. Go, TypeScript, or Python in production. Manufacturing, logistics, or infrastructure domains. Experience at a company that builds physical things.

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