Full Stack Team Lead

Imagen is seeking an experienced Full Stack Team Lead to build and lead a high-performing team of frontend, backend, and full-stack engineers while driving critical technical initiatives across our platform. This is a pivotal role where you'll balance hands-on technical contribution with people leadership, shaping both our engineering culture and technical architecture.

You'll own significant parts of our platform end-to-end - from responsive client-side applications, reusable component systems, and the Node.js/Electron layer that powers our desktop product, to the backend infrastructure behind it: large-scale image processing pipelines, AI model serving systems, distributed cloud architecture, and RESTful APIs. As a technical leader, you'll mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions across the stack, and ensure our systems scale to handle billions of images while maintaining reliability, performance, and a high-quality user experience.

Additionally, you will serve as a Squad Lead, managing a cross-functional business unit that includes both Backend and Frontend engineers, driving end-to-end product delivery.

This role offers the opportunity to directly impact Imagen's growth by building the team and systems that power our AI-driven photo editing platform used by professional photographers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Frontend and Backend engineers, conducting 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.
• Lead a cross-functional squad (Frontend + Backend engineers) as a Squad Lead, driving product initiatives from conception to delivery.
• Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions across Frontend and Backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, and a high-quality user experience.
• Balance hands-on technical work (coding, design reviews, troubleshooting production issues) with team leadership and strategic planning.
• Monitor system health and lead incident response efforts to ensure high availability of customer-facing services.
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence within your team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Fullstack, Frontend, or Backend Engineer, with at least 2+ years as a Team Lead.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field from a well-known university.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Proven expertise with modern frontend frameworks and building reusable, modular component systems (Vue experience - an advantage).
• Proven expertise in backend server development with languages such as Python, Scala, Go, or Java, and/or with Node.js.
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases.
• Proficiency in at least one major cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure (AWS preferred).
• Experience developing and maintaining distributed systems at scale - an advantage.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, working effectively across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Passion for building great products, and empowering engineers to do their best work.