Software Engineering Team Lead

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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MetalBear

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $12.5M Seed Round - MetalBear on 2025-09

SaaS • B2B

MetalBear is a developer tools company offering mirrord, a SaaS product that lets cloud developers run, test, and debug local code as if it were running inside their Kubernetes cluster. mirrord provides CLI and editor plugins (VS Code, IntelliJ) to attach local processes to remote services, eliminating the need to build Docker images, push to CI, or deploy just to test. It aims to speed up development cycles, simplify debugging of microservices, and improve product quality by making remote environments feel local.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of cloud integration features such as queue splitting and database branching • Stay hands-on and actively contribute to the codebase • Work with Kubernetes, cloud services, database systems, message brokers, and other tools and platforms • Set the team's technical direction and maintain high engineering standards • Drive effective use of AI across the team • Help prioritize work, unblock engineers, and drive roadmap execution • Hire and mentor engineers as the team grows • Partner with Product, Solution Engineering, and users to drive adoption and expansion

🎯 Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience leading engineering teams • At least 4 years of professional experience writing production-grade code in Rust, C++, or C • Excellent communication skills • Understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native environments • Strong systems-level thinking • Ability to debug complex, distributed environments • Comfortable working asynchronously in a remote-first, startup environment • Nice to have: Experience building developer tools • Nice to have: Experience building Kubernetes operators or other components that interact with the Kubernetes API • Nice to have: Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling such as data stores, message brokers, and GitOps tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock options • Remote-first work arrangement • Async-friendly work environment • Low-meeting culture • Competitive salary