Full-Stack Team Lead

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Full-Stack Team Lead leading development on a legal research platform. Focused on team leadership and building user-facing products with large legal datasets.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DjangoJavaScriptPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and contribute directly to full-stack product development, from back-end services and APIs to front-end experiences and templates.
Build scalable features using large datasets, turning complex legal information into clear, useful, and customer-facing product experiences.
Partner closely with Product and Design to translate requirements into thoughtful, reliable, and well-executed applications.
Triage incoming technical issues, bugs, and product requests, helping the team prioritize the right work and stay focused.
Manage and support engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, coaching, career development, and project guidance.
Collaborate with back-end, data science and R&D engineers on large-scale data initiatives, system improvements, and product launches.
Provide technical leadership across projects, helping define implementation plans, review approaches, and ensure strong engineering standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and shipping production software.
Experience leading engineers through complex projects, whether as a tech lead, engineering manager, or hands-on team lead.
Strong Python experience and working knowledge of a Python web framework; Django experience is a plus.
Solid understanding of API architecture, front-end JavaScript frameworks, and server-rendered/front-end template development.
Ability to translate product and design requirements into clean, scalable, and maintainable applications.
Strong judgment when balancing technical quality, product needs, team capacity, and delivery timelines.
Comfort managing both technical execution and people leadership responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meaningful equity
Full Medical, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family). ALL premiums covered!
401k w/ full match up to state limit
Work from anywhere, but be willing to travel for sales meetings, leadership retreats, etc
Flexible vacation policy. You manage your own time

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Hard Skills & Tools

full-stack engineeringPythonDjangoAPI architectureJavaScript frameworksserver-rendered templatesscalable application developmentdata initiativessoftware productiontechnical leadership

Soft Skills

team leadershipcoachingfeedbackcareer developmentproject guidancejudgmentcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationprioritization