Engineering Team Lead, LearnWith.AI (Remote) - $200,000/year USD
About the role
We are seeking Technical Team Leads to own quality and delivery for our application-layer products. You will guide a compact team of 3-5 engineers developing educational applications reaching thousands of students.
Potential Products Include
Athena: AI-powered video and assessment generation driving quantifiable learning results TeachTap: AI-enabled platform reviving historical figures in a TikTok-inspired educational format TeachTales: Customized, immersive storytelling designed to improve reading comprehension TrashCat: Game-based learning that transforms education into an engaging activity
This position balances hands-on execution with team enablement: approximately 50% building advanced features yourself, 50% guiding and developing your engineers. You define quality expectations, create architectural patterns, conduct code reviews with instructional depth, and accelerate engineer development. Team results fall under your accountability, extending beyond individual contributions.
Lean team structure, substantial ownership, minimal administrative overhead. Your focus is technical leadership; people management responsibilities sit elsewhere.
What You Will Be Doing
Developing advanced features that establish technical direction for the team Conducting PR reviews with comprehensive, instructional commentary Mentoring engineers via pair programming and structured feedback Orchestrating technical initiatives and decomposing feature specifications Defining quality benchmarks and ensuring consistent adherence
What You Won’t Be Doing
Handling personnel management (recruitment, termination, performance evaluations, career planning) Developing platform or infrastructure layers Attending prolonged or excessive meetings Designing systems without hands-on implementation
Basic Requirements
Engineering Team Lead key responsibilities
Minimum 5 years of full-stack software development experience Minimum 2 years in a technical leadership capacity (conducting code reviews, mentoring developers, defining team standards) Proven history of delivering SaaS products to production Practical experience integrating AI tools into development processes Verified capability in elevating the skills and performance of fellow engineers
About LearnWith.AI
LearnWith.AI is an edtech startup that leverages AI and subject matter experts to cultivate a new way of learning. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting-edge data analytics and AI-powered coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn more, learn faster, and learn better - and have fun while doing it. We are a remote-first company that hires globally via Crossover.
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Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5738-CA-COUNTRY-EngineeringTea