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Duties/Responsibilities
Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers building Signal, the software that drives Foundry.
Global Collaboration: Lead a globally distributed team, collaborating closely with developers based in both the US and India.
Career Development: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development for team members.
Hiring and Onboarding: Participate in hiring efforts, including sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding new engineers, hiring and developing for judgment, product sense, and verification skills rather than raw output.
Team Culture: Foster a healthy team culture built on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with product management and business stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable development plans.
Delivery Ownership: Own delivery timelines and ensure the team ships high-quality software on schedule.
Technical Guidance: Guide technical discussions and help the team make sound architectural decisions.
Removing Obstacles: Remove obstacles and shield the team from distractions so they can focus on building.
Development Process: Establish and refine development processes and AI-assisted workflows, balancing agility with predictability.
AI Leadership: Champion fluent, responsible use of AI tools and coding agents as a force multiplier, so the team delivers faster while staying firmly accountable for review, testing, quality, and security.
AI Workflows and Standards: Shape the team’s AI workflows, tooling, and standards, and keep improving them as the landscape shifts.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, customer success, and other engineering teams.
Technical Engagement: Stay close enough to the codebase, and to how the team works with AI, to give meaningful input during code reviews and technical planning.
Education and Experience
Minimum Required – 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a management or team-lead role.
Preferred – 8+ years of experience in software development, with 3+ years managing teams building web applications and experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or ERP systems.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Programming Languages and Technologies: Experience managing teams building web applications, ideally in Elixir/Phoenix or similar modern stacks, with the ability to provide meaningful technical guidance.
AI-Assisted Development: Fluency with modern AI development tools, and a clear point of view on how they change the way teams build, hire, and measure impact.
Development Practices: Strong understanding of software development practices, including testing, CI/CD, code review, and Agile methodologies.
People Management: Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain strong engineering talent, with a genuine interest in the growth and well-being of the people you manage.
Delivery Management: Experience managing delivery across multiple products or initiatives simultaneously.
Trust and Collaboration: A track record of building trust with both the team and cross-functional partners.
Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
Adaptability: Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information.
APIs and Infrastructure: Familiarity with REST and GraphQL APIs, database design, and cloud infrastructure is a plus.
Domain Knowledge: Experience in manufacturing or supply chain is a plus.
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of software development experience
- At least 2 years in a management or team-lead role
- Experience managing teams building web applications
- Experience with Elixir/Phoenix or similar modern technology stacks
- Fluency with modern AI development tools
- Strong understanding of testing, CI/CD, code review, and Agile methodologies
- Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineering talent
- Experience managing delivery across multiple products or initiatives simultaneously
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
- 8 or more years of software development experience
- 3 or more years managing teams
- Experience building web applications
- Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or ERP systems
- Familiarity with REST and GraphQL APIs, database design, and cloud infrastructure
AHEAD Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AHEAD and has not been reviewed or approved by AHEAD.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) contributions are matched dollar-for-dollar on the first $5,000 each year, with matching made each pay period and immediate 100% vesting. This structure signals above-standard employer support for retirement savings.
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Affordable Benefits — Medical options include low employee premiums for PPO and HDHP plans, and the HDHP adds employer HSA funding plus a dollar-for-dollar HSA match up to stated amounts. Dental and vision plans list very low per-paycheck costs, helping keep overall healthcare spend manageable.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — No-cost telemedicine (including virtual mental health when enrolled), free Calm access for the employee and dependents, and an EAP with counseling are included. Company-paid life and disability plus voluntary protections (legal/ID, pet insurance) and other extras round out a comprehensive set of supports.
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What We Do
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
