Engineering Team Lead

Job Title: Engineering Team Lead

Location: Remote

Line Manager: Chief Technology Officer

Website: https://www.aracor.ai/

About Aracor

Aracor is on a mission to build a world-class product that will redefine dealmaking. Built for family offices, in-house legal teams, venture capital, and private equity firms, our AI-native platform helps manage thousands of pages of documents with greater speed and precision, uncovering key insights and risks in seconds. Aracor combines legal expertise with cutting-edge AI to streamline the entire deal lifecycle and deliver the competitive edge today’s high-stakes transactions demand.

Role Overview

We are seeking a high-agency Engineering Lead to take Aracor’s platform to the next level. In this role, you will own our full-stack engineering efforts end-to-end: from building and managing the team, to designing scalable architecture and deploying reliable services in production.

Key Responsibilities

• Full-Stack Ownership: Lead the design, architecture, and development of Aracor’s platform across the stack, ensuring high performance and scalability.
• Technical Strategy: Work closely with the key stakeholders on technical roadmap and decisions. Evaluate and introduce new technologies to improve platform performance, scalability, and reliability as needed.
• Team Building & Leadership: Hire, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and quality execution.
• Agile Delivery: Drive sprint planning, prioritization, and project management to ensure on-time delivery of product launches. Keep the team focused and accountable to milestones and results.
• Quality & Reliability: Own the platform’s reliability, security, and maintainability. Implement engineering best practices in code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring to uphold a robust production environment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product and business teams to translate requirements into effective technical solutions. Communicate trade-offs and be the bridge between engineering and other stakeholders.
• Startup Hustle: Adapt and wear multiple hats as needed in a fast-paced startup setting. Whether it’s debugging a Kubernetes deployment, refining a UI workflow, or jumping on an urgent issue, you do what it takes to push the product and team forward.

Qualifications

• Proven Technical Leader: 7+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in a leadership role (tech lead/engineering manager) in a fast-paced environment.
• Full-Stack Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and shipping modern web applications end-to-end. Comfortable with our current tech stack (Python, FastAPI, React) and excited to dive into new languages or frameworks (Golang, Rust) when appropriate.
• End-to-End Delivery: Demonstrated ability to architect and deliver complex systems from scratch – from initial design and APIs to deployment and monitoring in production.
• Team Building Experience: Proven experience hiring and leading engineers, with a track record of nurturing talent and establishing effective engineering processes (agile sprints, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, etc.).
• High Agency & Ownership: Self-driven and proactive. Thrives with autonomy and takes ownership of outcomes. Able to make decisions and solve problems independently, with a bias for action.
• Strong Communication: Excellent communicator who can explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and interface with product, design, and executive teams. Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Startup Mindset: Resourceful, adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity. You have the startup hustle to adjust course quickly and handle the broad responsibilities that come with an early-stage team.

What We Offer

• Impact & Ownership: A lead role at the forefront of an AI-driven product poised to disrupt the legal industry. You’ll have significant influence over technology and product direction, with your work directly shaping our success.
• Growth Opportunities: Autonomy to make technical decisions and build a team from the ground up. As we scale, you can grow into a senior engineering leadership position with greater scope and responsibility.
• Remote-First Culture: Work from anywhere. We value results over hours and trust our team to manage their work in the environment where they’re most productive.
• Mission-Driven Team: Join a tight-knit team of passionate experts (legal professionals, AI researchers, and seasoned entrepreneurs) driven by a bold vision. We’re moving fast, learning every day, and excited to have you shape the journey with us.

Our Core Values – How We Show Up Every Day

🚀 1. AI-First Mentality

Use AI in everything we do. How can we work smarter, faster, and better with AI?

🛠 2. No Ego, Just Execution

Ideas win, not titles. Feedback helps us grow. Focus on impact, not credit.

⚡ 3. Fail Fast, Learn Faster

Iteration beats perfection. Every mistake is a lesson. Test, learn, and adapt.

📈 4. Growth Mindset Always

Skills are built, not born. Push outside your comfort zone and evolve.

📂 5. Be Organized, Stay Disciplined

Clarity creates speed. Respect time, communicate well, and document decisions.

🔥 6. Extreme Ownership Mentality

Own your work, own your results, own your mistakes. Be proactive, solve problems.

💡 7. We’re All in This Together

Support the team. Help before being asked. Success is never a solo effort.

These aren’t just words, they’re how we work, how we lead, and how we win.

🚀 AI-first. Ownership-driven. Relentlessly improving. Let’s build something legendary.