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UP.Labs is a first-of-its-kind venture lab unlocking the future of transportation and mobility.
The Role
As a Tech Lead Engineer, you will manage and mentor a small team, design scalable applications, oversee code quality, and collaborate on project roadmaps.
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UPLabs Summary
UP.Labs is a dynamic venture studio dedicated to building innovative startup companies from the ground up. Our team thrives on solving complex problems, driving technological advancements, and creating impactful digital products. We’re seeking a highly skilled professional to join our growing team and contribute to our mission of launching the next wave of successful startups.
You will lead the design and delivery of end-to-end AI products, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders while staying hands-on across frontend and backend development. You will also guide the team in building scalable cloud-ready systems and improving the reliability of the delivery pipeline.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of fullstack features, owning architecture decisions and ensuring high-quality implementation across the frontend and backend.
- Drive backend system design and development, building and maintaining robust APIs and services that support product growth.
- Provide technical leadership to the engineering team, setting standards, mentoring teammates, and raising overall engineering excellence.
- Support DevOps and cloud infrastructure initiatives, improving deployment workflows, observability, and operational reliability for production systems.
- Demonstrated ability to build and ship modern fullstack applications with strong proficiency in TypeScript, Python, React, and Next.js, Django or similar frameworks.
- Strong backend development experience using Python or Node.js to design and implement reliable services and APIs.
- Experience developing and maintaining data layers using PostgreSQL, including designing schemas and supporting application performance needs.
- Ability to contribute across the stack, collaborating effectively on frontend development with Tailwind CSS and modern UI patterns, as well as backend integrations and AI/ML services using Python
- Experience building and maintaining systems using Python in support of product capabilities, services, or automation.
- Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and cloud operations practices, using tools such as Terraform and Kubernetes to support scalable environments.
- Proven leadership and team management capabilities, including guiding technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and coordinating delivery across priorities.
- Experience working with GCP.
We build high-growth technology startups that enable faster, cleaner, and safer movement of people and goods. Our vision is to transform the moving world by pairing leading corporations and entrepreneurs with a proven methodology for launching and scaling software and hardware companies.
We work with corporate investors over a multi-year period to launch a portfolio of mobility-focused ventures. Our team is dedicated to the first year of a new venture’s life cycle, from ideation to minimum viable product build (and beyond) to recruiting and hiring the full-time team who will scale the business.
Location: Remote
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field
- 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- 2+ years leading technical teams
- Hands-on experience with Node.js and Python
- Advanced proficiency with frontend frameworks such as React
- Expertise in microservices architecture
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The Company
What We Do
We work with global corporate partners to identify the most pressing challenges that they, and broader society, face. Inspired by these complex problems, we launch startups built by proven entrepreneurs, product leaders and technologists that use their agility and talent to develop transformative solutions. After these companies have matured and proven market fit, our corporate partners are able to acquire them, reaping strategic value while enriching their culture and core business. We believe this to be the shortest road to a faster, cleaner, safer, and more accessible future.
Why Work With Us
We launch and innovate 6-8 portfolio organizations a year where no day is the same.
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