About the Role
The role involves leading engineering efforts for core web applications and a widely used browser extension, ensuring high performance, scalability, and alignment with product goals through hands-on development and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of web-based product features
- Own architectural decisions for scalable frontend and backend systems
- Collaborate with product managers to define roadmap priorities
- Mentor engineers and improve team development practices
- Drive performance optimization across web platforms
- Ensure code quality through reviews and testing standards
- Guide the evolution of a Chrome extension used by millions
- Work cross-functionally with design and UX teams
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues in production
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies when beneficial
- Maintain alignment between engineering output and business objectives
- Support release planning and deployment processes
- Improve CI/CD pipelines for faster iteration
- Champion best practices in security and accessibility
- Monitor system health and respond to incidents
- Refactor legacy components for long-term maintainability
- Lead sprint planning and technical standups
- Document system architecture and key decisions
- Onboard new engineering team members
- Contribute to hiring and team scaling efforts
- Balance technical debt with feature development
- Ensure compliance with data privacy standards
- Optimize user experience through frontend improvements
- Collaborate on A/B testing and feature rollouts
- Advocate for user-centric engineering solutions
Nice to Have
- Experience leading teams remotely
- Background in audio or text-to-speech technologies
- Open source contributions in web tooling
- Familiarity with Electron or desktop-like web apps
- Knowledge of SEO and web discoverability
- Experience with internationalization and localization
- Exposure to machine learning integration in web apps
- Understanding of user behavior analytics platforms
- Prior work on developer tools or productivity software
- Track record of improving engineering velocity
Compensation
Competitive salary with equity and benefits
Work Arrangement
Remote-friendly with hybrid options
Team
Product-focused engineering team building web tools and browser extensions
Why This Role Matters
- This position plays a central role in shaping the core user experience across web platforms and browser extensions.
- The tech lead will directly influence product scalability and performance for a growing user base.
- Success in this role accelerates the adoption of key features through robust engineering leadership.
What We Build
- We develop high-performance web applications that process and deliver spoken content at scale.
- Our Chrome extension enhances accessibility by enabling seamless text-to-speech functionality.
- The platform supports diverse content types and integrates with third-party services.
Engineering Culture
- We value pragmatic innovation, measurable impact, and continuous learning.
- Engineers are encouraged to prototype, test, and iterate quickly.
- Technical decisions are guided by user needs and long-term maintainability.
Available for qualified candidates
