Engineering Squad Lead

# About Lago At Lago, we're on a mission to make Monetization simpler for tech companies. As the leading open-source billing platform, we help businesses build flexible pricing models and scale with confidence. We've raised over **$22 million in funding** from top-tier investors including **Y Combinator and FirstMark**. Our platform has garnered around **10K stars on GitHub**, a testament to our active and growing developer community. Companies such as **PayPal, CoreWeave, Synthesia, and** [****](http://Mistral.ai) choose Lago for their billing. And we have barely spent any money on Marketing or Ads so far. We're a team of ambitious, focused individuals who solve hard problems with excellence and accountability. At Lago, we value **reliability and proactivity**. We trust each other to own tasks, drive them to completion, and continuously improve them. While we encourage you to **try fast and “fail fast”**, we also expect you to **learn fast**: make mistakes, but don't make the same one twice. If you're excited by challenges and want to grow alongside a high-performing, supportive team, this is the place for you. ## Overview We're hiring an Engineering Squad Lead to take full ownership of one of the focused domains here at Lago: shipping features, keeping production healthy, and coordinating the team around you. This is a role that blends hands-on technical contribution with operational leadership. You'll stay close to the code while also being the person who keeps the squad moving: scoping work with Product, unblocking engineers, owning production incidents, and making sure the team is building with quality and velocity. You won't be handed a fully-formed system to maintain. Lago is a fast-moving product in a complex domain, billing infrastructure where precision and reliability genuinely matter. You'll need to make sound architectural decisions quickly, communicate trade-offs clearly, and hold a high bar without slowing the team down. ## What you'll be doing **Technology** - Share technical authority with the Staff Engineer for your squad's domain: evaluate trade-offs together and drive architecture decisions - Stay hands-on: code review, prototyping, contributing to critical paths - Maintain code quality and review standards within the squad - Own the code health of your domain **Delivery** - Own the squad's roadmap execution for the quarter - Run sprint planning, keep work moving, and unblock engineers day-to-day - Ensure the squad is prepared for biweekly product demos and decide who presents - Act as the primary engineering point of contact for Product: scope features, communicate trade-offs, and align on priorities **Production** - Own production health for your squad's domain: monitor dashboards (Grafana, Sentry), respond to alerts, and resolve incidents - Triage and resolve customer-reported issues within SLA targets, working in coordination with Customer Success - Monitor and address CVEs and security vulnerabilities within your domain **People** - Coordinate a squad of up to 10 engineers - Run operational 1:1s, give day-to-day feedback, and flag performance signals to the Head of Engineering - Coordinate the onboarding of new team members into the squad **Process** - Define and adjust the squad's ways of working: balancing agility and discipline as the team and product evolve - Drive engineering excellence: track DORA metrics, reduce cycle time, raise the quality bar - Continuously improve how the squad works based on team feedback and results ## Who you are - A credible technical leader who can collaborate closely with engineers because you're still in the work - A clear communicator who can scope a feature with a PM, explain a production incident to a non-technical stakeholder, and give direct feedback to an engineer — all in the same week - Operationally strong: you keep the trains running without needing a system to tell you what needs attention - Someone who cares about team health as much as delivery — you notice when an engineer is stuck or disengaged and do something about it - Comfortable holding a high quality bar in a fast-moving environment: you know when to move quickly and when to slow down and do it right ## Who you're not - You're not someone who manages from a distance, you stay close to the work and the people doing it - You're not a blocker — decisions get made, trade-offs get communicated, and the team keeps moving - You're not indifferent to production — a customer incident or a flaky dashboard bothers you until it's resolved - You're not a siloed thinker — you collaborate across squads, with Product, and with CS without needing to be asked ## Requirements - 8+ years of software engineering experience (ideally 2/3+ in a Squad or Tech Lead position), with a strong command of backend systems and production environments - Track record of shipping reliable, high-quality software in a fast-moving product company - Comfortable working in a complex technical domain: distributed systems, APIs, data integrity, or similar - Strong communication skills — written and verbal, with the ability to bridge engineering and product effectively - Experience owning production: incident response, monitoring, on-call, SLA ownership - Recent experience working with a Ruby on Rails codebase **Nice to have** - Experience in billing, fintech, or usage-based pricing infrastructure - Familiarity with DORA metrics and engineering effectiveness frameworks - Background working in or contributing to open-source projects - Exposure to developer tooling or API-first product companies ## Why Join Lago? - **Work with top-tier international talent**: Join a team that values excellence, slope over intercept, and accountability. We have convinced top-tier investors and companies to trust us with mission-critical systems like billing. We have 12+ nationalities on the team and are building a global company with a global culture. - **Shape the future of monetization and fintech**: The world is changing. Monetization systems are shifting with AI, and you will be at the forefront of this revolution. - **Fully remote**: Work from anywhere in Europe - **Competitive package**: Competitive salary and stock options - **Make an impact**: Your work will directly shape how customers like Mistral, Groq, Synthesia, and established enterprises monetize and grow. Ready to Build with Us? If you're excited about joining a high-talent team to solve meaningful problems and help businesses thrive, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and let's build something remarkable—together. Location type: Remote Primary Location: Remote Europe Team: Product Engineering Work Type: Full Time/Permanent Contract *(Applicants must be based in Europe. Applications from other locations will not be considered.)*