Tech Lead – Code Plane

🔥 2 hours ago

🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

💵 $144k - $192k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Sourcegraph

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $150M Series D on 2021-07

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

Sourcegraph is a company providing code intelligence solutions designed to help developers efficiently navigate and understand complex codebases. It offers tools like code search and context-aware AI to help developers write, fix, and refactor code with ease. Sourcegraph improves productivity by automating tasks such as unit testing and documentation, allowing developers to focus more on development. Its AI coding assistant, Cody, enhances coding efficiency by providing code completions and insights directly within developers' IDEs. Sourcegraph is trusted by large development teams for simplifying codebase management and increasing engineering productivity.

📋 Description

• Set technical and product direction for the Code Plane team • Drive the roadmap from issue to shipped product • Keep the engineering team unblocked and moving • Work across backend, AI agents, and frontend as a generalist • Lead Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, and the src CLI product surfaces • Partner with Product, Design, Customer Engineering, Solutions Engineering, and adjacent engineering teams • Translate customer feedback into product and technical priorities • Run and use Sourcegraph products as a user and agent • Join the on-call support rotation • Own a meaningful slice of Agentic Batch Changes end-to-end and ship critical pieces • Scope and sequence roadmap projects and clarify ownership and priorities • Improve design, review, testing, and delivery practices • Mentor teammates and build high-trust relationships • Serve as the technical visionary for Code Plane and guide architecture, quality, and product trade-offs • Mobilize engineers to execute the roadmap

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience • Fluency across Go, TypeScript, SvelteKit, React, GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes in a multi-service environment • Strong technical background with ability to provide guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs • Proven experience building end-user product features, ideally developer tools, agent/AI products, CLIs, or technical product surfaces • Experience partnering with Product and Design to take features from idea to shipped and incorporate customer feedback into the roadmap • Built something that agents or other programs call, such as MCP servers, agent SDKs, tool surfaces, harnesses, or a CLI designed for non-human callers • Hands-on experience using and reasoning about coding agents such as Amp, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar • Async-first communication skills and experience working in a globally distributed remote team • Working hours overlapping with CEST for at least 20 hours per week • Strongly preferred: experience orchestrating autonomous work at scale • Strongly preferred: experience owning an inherited service with paying customers • Strongly preferred: track record of raising engineering standards • Strongly preferred: architectural decision-making under uncertainty • Strongly preferred: experience defining measurements for systems without a single correct answer • Strongly preferred: customer-facing technical discovery experience • Strongly preferred: experience as a Team or Tech Lead

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity • Competitive cash compensation • Generous perks and benefits • Above-market salaries • Globally distributed remote work