Grata is the leading private-market dealmaking platform, delivering the most comprehensive, accurate, and searchable proprietary data on private companies, financials, and ownership. Trusted by over 700 customers—including top investors, advisors, and corporate development teams—Grata is growing fast, backed by accolades from G2 and PE Wire. We’re looking for ambitious talent to help us shape the future of data-driven dealmaking.
Role Overview
We’re looking for an Engineering Team Lead to guide one of our core product engineering squads. You’ll be responsible for leading a high-performing team of engineers building customer-facing features that power the workflows of top investors and deal professionals, and you’ll do it by leveraging cutting-edge AI Models, Agents, and Agentic Workflows to augment product capabilities and engineering velocity.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll split your time between writing production code, mentoring engineers, and driving the technical execution of product initiatives in partnership with Design, Product, and Data. You’ll also be working closely with our AI Teams to embed AI into our product surface area.
What You’ll Do
As an Engineering Lead at Grata, you will:
- Lead a cross-functional team of engineers to deliver features across the stack using React and Django.
- Partner with Product and Design to scope work, shape roadmap priorities, and ensure on-time delivery.
- Own the technical quality, stability, and scalability of the systems your team maintains.
- Guide architecture decisions across backend services, API design, and frontend experience.
- Drive team rituals (standups, sprint planning, retros) and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Coach and mentor engineers on the team, helping them grow technically and professionally.
- Collaborate with peers across engineering to evolve shared patterns, improve deployment pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD), and increase operational excellence.
Who You Are
- 5+ years of professional experience, including 1+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role.
- Proven track record of building and scaling production systems in Python (Django) and JavaScript/TypeScript (React).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills—you bring clarity to ambiguity and alignment to cross-functional teams.
- You hold a high bar for code quality, system design, and performance—and help others reach it.
- You take ownership, identify opportunities, and ship solutions that move the business forward.
Why You’ll Love It Here
- Mentorship & Growth
- Opportunities to make a difference and develop your engineering leadership skills.
- Regular 1:1s and feedback sessions with senior engineering leaders.
- High-Impact Work
- Your code powers live features used by top-tier investors every day.
- Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams.
- Supportive Culture
- Weekly Grubhub-sponsored team lunches.
- Unlimited PTO, flexible work location (24 days remote per year), and a dog-friendly office.
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Generous employee-premium coverage on medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 12 weeks parental leave, 401(k) with company match, pre-tax commuter benefits.
Ready to continue your career building impactful applications? Apply now and join Grata’s engineering team!
Grata is committed to providing competitive cash compensation and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in New York City, the estimated base salary for this role is $160,000 - $200,000 per year. There is also an annual bonus plan of 5-15% of base salary, depending on experience.
Grata is proud to be an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Grata considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Grata is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
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What We Do
Grata is the first private intelligence search engine for company discovery, providing a single source of truth to find small to middle market private companies. We are developing cutting-edge search technology leveraging NLP and ML to automate the B2B research process on millions of small and medium businesses in the U.S. We’ve recently experienced significant growth and raised capital from top investors who built Google and transformed the finance industry.
Despite making up nearly half of the US economy, private companies are notoriously difficult to find and engage even for the most innovative dealmakers.
In the past, finding the right small and mid-market companies for a deal has required a massive effort, and a bit of luck. This hurts target companies too, who often miss out on game changing opportunities as they are practically invisible.
So, what if there was a different, better way to do business? A solution that gave innovative dealmakers an edge? A tool to help them find the right company - at the right time?
That's why we created Grata - to make that difference.
Our private company intelligence engine streamlines the process of finding the best companies to target: making it easier and faster to gain visibility into the entire market, gather relevant intelligence on target companies, build bespoke lists, and find similar companies to uncover more of the best opportunities in less time.
Why Work With Us
Our employees have an ownership mentality and are hyper-focused on the success of the organization, evolving our product, and constantly look to make Grata better every day. Grata takes a no-ego approach to collaboration on, regardless of experience, title, or seniority, everyone knows their voice will always be heard.
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