Staff Software Engineer / Engineering Team Lead

Location

Remote US  / Noida, India Hybrid

About Us 

Tobi Cloud is a fast-growing software company that helps transportation fleets run smoothly. Our easy-to-use tools help fleet owners schedule rides, manage dispatch, handle billing, and more.

Our customers rely on us every day. As a result, our support team plays a big role in keeping things running well. We’re looking for an entry-level Application Support Specialist who is curious, helpful, and ready to learn.

You don’t need a long list of qualifications. Instead, if you like solving problems and helping people, you may be a great fit.

About the Role

We are seeking an outstanding Staff Software Engineer to serve as the lead engineer and primary technical mentor for a dedicated squad of 2–5 engineers. This is a highly hands-on, full-stack product engineering role with strong DevOps responsibilities. You’ll combine deep technical ownership with leadership to deliver reliable, customer-focused features while maintaining and improving our production systems.

You will be the go-to technical leader for your squad: writing code daily, guiding architectural decisions, mentoring team members, and taking end-to-end ownership of the product area — from understanding customer needs to ensuring the system is observable, reliable, and performant in production. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Act as the leading engineer for a squad of 2–5 engineers, providing technical direction, code reviews, architectural guidance, and career mentorship 
• Own the full product engineering lifecycle for your squad’s area: 
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and customers to deeply understand user needs and translate them into high-impact features 
  • Design, implement, test, and deploy full-stack solutions (frontend, backend, APIs, infrastructure) 
  • Take strong ownership interest in the quality, reliability, and success of the work 
• Champion and embody modern engineering practices: 
  • Agile development with iterative delivery and continuous discovery 
  • Pair/mob programming and constructive code reviews as learning opportunities 
  • Effective use of AI-assisted tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate development while upholding quality and security 
  • Test-driven development and comprehensive automated testing 
• Embrace DevOps responsibilities: 
  • Participate in on-call rotation and lead troubleshooting / incident response for your squad’s services 
  • Build and maintain observability dashboards, alerts, metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing 
  • Drive reliability, performance, and scalability improvements in production 
• Help shape technical strategy, standards, and best practices across the broader engineering organization 
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and fostering a high-performing, collaborative culture 

Requirements 

• 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer building and shipping production web/cloud products 
• Strong full-stack expertise (modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem strongly preferred): 
  • Frontend: React/Next.js or equivalent modern frameworks 
  • Backend: Node.js, Python (FastAPI/Flask), Go, or similar 
  • Databases & infrastructure: PostgreSQL, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization 
• Proven experience leading or mentoring small engineering teams (2–5+ engineers) as a technical lead 
• Demonstrated ownership mindset: understanding customer problems, driving solutions end-to-end, and caring deeply about outcomes 
• Hands-on experience with production operations: 
• On-call / incident management 
• Building observability (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards) 
• Comfort with collaborative modern practices: pair programming, CI/CD, trunk-based development 
• Experience integrating AI coding assistants into daily workflow 
• Excellent communication: able to align engineers, product, and stakeholders around technical and business decisions 

Nice-to-Haves 

• Prior Staff/Lead Engineer experience in a product-focused company 
• Experience with SRE practices, SLOs, or reliability engineering 
• Background in design systems, performance optimization, or domain-driven design 
• Open-source contributions or public technical writing 

Why You’ll Like Working Here 

You’ll get real hands-on learning from your first day. In addition, you’ll work on a small, friendly team where your ideas matter. Because we value flexibility, you can work remotely in a supportive and low-ego environment.