Software Engineering TLM

About the role

Supply chain is broken. It's the foundation of our entire economy, but it (barely) runs on a mix of home-brewed processes duct-taped to some spreadsheets and emails.

As a Tech Lead Manager at LightSource, you'll be expected to wear many hats. You will be in charge of a team of senior engineers and responsible for your own work as an individual contributor.

As a manager, you'll be coordinating resources, driving planning and execution, and promoting technical excellence throughout the org.

This is a full-time, onsite role at our office in downtown San Francisco (off Market St, steps from BART and Caltrain

Responsibilities

• Planning and Execution
• Ensure that work is aligned with business objectives and product goals
• Build execution plans meeting resource constraints
• Drive delivery of work against objectives
• Manage risks, problem-solve, and course correct as necessary. Resolve technical conflicts that arise
• Technical Excellence
• Guide technical work through direct, hands-on, management as needed
• Adhere to and enforce team quality, security, and consistent development standards
• Assess technical output of the team against KPIs
• Maintain awareness of advancements in the domain and incorporate them into the team
• Communication, Collaboration, and Culture
• Identify, report, and rectify any perceived problems or organizational risks
• Maintain and elevate the existing company culture across your team
• People and Organization
• Create a psychologically safe environment and provide support and motivation to the team
• Proactively check in with team members to ensure that their performance is good and their needs are met
• Manage performance within the direct team and set a high-performance bar with guardrails
• Proactively resolve interpersonal conflicts within the team

Requirements

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• 8+ years of experience in software development
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• 3+ years of people management experience in a startup environment
• Track record of successfully shipping products
• The Team

We're a driven team, who've helped build some incredible companies (Tesla, Waymo, Google, Meta, Amazon, Dropbox, Airbnb and many more). And now we're tackling an exciting problem space ripe for disruption.

• Our team is small, but our ambitions are big. So we only hire the absolute best and try to learn every day while having a lot of fun.