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About the Role

STAN is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to guide a small, high-impact full-stack team. This player-coach role involves coding, leading sprints, mentoring, driving architecture, and hiring. You will have direct influence on engineering practices and AI adoption, reporting to the Director of Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for your squad, including architecture decisions, code quality standards, and engineering best practices.
• Drive full-stack feature development in Node.js / TypeScript across web and API layers.
• Set the standard for code reviews, ensuring they are thorough, constructive, and educational.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, balancing development velocity with long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate with the Director of Engineering on broader platform and architecture decisions.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 2–3 full-stack engineers.
• Manage sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives to keep the team focused and unblocked.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and provide constructive feedback to aid engineer development.
• Actively participate in the hiring process, including sourcing, interviewing, and closing candidates.
• Foster a team culture of psychological safety, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with product and design teams to translate requirements into well-scoped technical work.
• Advocate for engineering feasibility and quality by pushing back on scope when necessary.
• Contribute innovative ideas and solutions beyond just task execution.
• Participate in roadmap discussions and identify opportunities for technical innovation.
• Champion the adoption of AI tooling within the team, such as Claude Code.
• Drive a culture where AI accelerates team output in areas like code generation, test writing, documentation, and code review.
• Stay updated on AI tooling advancements and recommend new tools to leadership.
• Collaborate on integrating LLM capabilities into the product.
• Take ownership of team delivery, including estimates, commitments, and follow-through.
• Communicate risks and blockers clearly and early to engineering leadership.
• Help define and refine engineering processes as the team scales.
• Contribute to on-call duties and incident response.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 1–2 years in a tech lead or senior lead capacity.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills with Node.js and TypeScript on both frontend and backend.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, even informally.
• Proven track record of owning features end-to-end, from architecture through production.
• Strong communication skills, capable of explaining technical decisions to diverse audiences.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment with shifting priorities.
• Experience building AI-powered features or integrating LLMs into production applications (Nice to Have).
• Hands-on experience with AI developer tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) (Nice to Have).
• Experience in property management, real estate, or adjacent B2B SaaS (Nice to Have).
• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (Nice to Have).
• Experience participating in hiring processes, including interviews, take-homes, and calibration (Nice to Have).

Skills

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Full-stack development
• Technical leadership
• Mentoring
• Architecture decisions
• Code quality standards
• Engineering best practices
• Code review
• Technical debt management
• Agile methodologies (sprints, standups, retrospectives)
• Hiring and talent acquisition
• Psychological safety
• Product collaboration
• AI tooling adoption
• LLM integration
• Roadmap planning
• Process definition
• Incident response

Location

• North York

Work Type

• Full-time
• In-office

Experience Level

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 1-2 years in a tech lead or senior lead capacity

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health, dental, and specialist benefits
• Company Macbook
• Free parking and shuttle service
• Company events
• In-office restaurant
• Building-wide perks
• Unlimited ping pong
• Unlimited espresso

About the Company

• STAN is the largest provider of AI solutions for HOA and Condo Property Managers.
• Utilizes cutting-edge and patented artificial intelligence technology to enhance life for residents in over 2.5 million+ homes across North America.
• On a mission to build the world’s first AI property manager.
• An award-winning platform recognized by Rogers, FedEx, George Brown College, StartUp Canada, and the Waterloo Accelerator Centre.