Build, Lead, Elevate

At Safewill, we're setting a new benchmark for modern software in the end-of-life space. As a Lead Engineer, you’ll drive both delivery and technical excellence across a cross-functional squad - guiding system architecture, mentoring engineers, and ensuring we ship high-quality software at pace.

You’ll sit at the heart of product delivery and engineering quality, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the solutions we build are scalable, secure, and fast. If you’re passionate about leading by example, lifting up those around you, and applying world-class standards to how we build - this is your seat at the table.

What You’ll Lead

Technical Direction

• Own and shape architectural decisions across your team and influence technical approaches across the broader engineering org
• Ensure scalable, maintainable solutions through clear design, smart tooling, and reusable components
• Champion adoption of AI-assisted workflows, automated testing, and observability tools

Delivery

• Support your team in sprint planning, estimation, and execution
• Proactively identify and resolve technical blockers, delivery risks, or under-scoped features
• Ensure releases are predictable, secure, and well-documented

Mentorship & Capability Uplift

• Coach and mentor 2–3 engineers with regular feedback and growth-focused support
• Build a team that writes clean, secure code and levels up from every PR review
• Create internal successors by growing technical and leadership skills in others

Cross-functional Impact

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other squads to align technical delivery with business value
• Represent engineering in roadmap planning and squad ceremonies
• Drive influence through credibility, insight, and clear technical communication

What you bring 

You’ve been a senior or staff-level engineer who naturally leads technical work and brings clarity to complexity. You’re known for pairing strong execution with generosity - sharing knowledge, lifting others, and thinking beyond your code. Additionally, you have: 

• Deep experience delivering software in agile, cross-functional teams
• Proven technical leadership in high-performing squads
• Strong system design and architectural instincts - especially in distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure
• Excellent collaboration and mentoring skills
• Fluency in TypeScript or a similar modern language, and experience across backend, frontend, and infra
• Ability to unblock delivery with speed and clarity

Bonus points for 

• Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Run, or GCP
• Familiarity with GraphQL, event-driven systems, security best practices, and observability tooling
• Passion for emerging technologies, AI-enhanced workflows, and innovation in engineering process

Why Safewill, why now? 🎉