
Technical Lead
Auba
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- **The Role**
- **This is both an engineering and leadership role.
- On the engineering side, be prepared to get your hands dirty on everything from low-level infrastructure, performance, and security to user-facing product features. You will also be a primary steward of longer-term architectural decisions and projects.
- In addition to being a full-stack engineer (in every sense of the word), you will work very closely with the CTO to help determine product and engineering strategy and priorities,
- mentor other engineers, and grow the team. We are looking for people in New York, the East Coast (USA), or Mexico City. **
- That means:
- -Working directly with customers’ logistics, IT, and operations teams to deeply understand their needs and pains (customer meetings often take place in both Spanish and English, with live translation as needed)
- -Lots of autonomy, using customers’ needs to guide your decision-making
- -Making pragmatic architecture decisions
- -Taking end-to-end ownership of large, business-critical projects
- -Working with cutting-edge AI tools in our product and your own development workflow
Requirements
- **Requirements**
- - 7+ years of experience in software engineering
- - Strong project management and organizational skills
- - Experience leading engineering teams or large projects requiring multiple engineers
- - Excellent communication and documentation habits
- - High autonomy and ownership; able to scope, prioritize, and deliver without heavy oversight
- ****Bonus points if you have experience with…**
- - Prior experience as a technical lead
- - Fluency in both English and Spanish
- - Previous experience at an early-stage startup
- - Experience with Typescript and/or Python
- - Experience in supply chain, logistics, or procurement
- - Familiarity with document processing, LLM-based data extraction, or ETL pipelines
Benefits
- Joining Desteia comes with a range of benefits:
- - Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
- - Unlimited PTO.
- - Flexible, remote-first work arrangements.
- - Health insurance or equivalent local benefits.
- - Stipend for home office equipment.
- - Experience working with cutting-edge technologies.
- - Opportunities for professional growth.
- - Periodic in-person get-togethers to build camaraderie with your teammates.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software engineeringfull-stack developmentTypescriptPythonproject managementarchitecture decisionsETL pipelinesdocument processingLLM-based data extraction
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsautonomyownershipmentoringdecision-making