Technical Lead (Product Engineering)

Who We Are

The Stensul Marketing Creation Platform™ reduces marketing asset creation time by up to 90% to help teams focus on improving campaign performance. With Stensul, teams launch campaigns faster by streamlining the collaboration process and simplifying creation for all marketers so they can create marketing assets that drive results. Stensul integrates with all leading ESPs/MAPs, including Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, Adobe Campaign, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud, as well as project management platforms, image libraries, live content, link tracking, and messaging platforms. Top brands that trust Stensul to solve their most demanding email problems include AAA,  Demandbase, Equifax, Flywire, Greenhouse, Morgan Stanley, and Yahoo. Stensul was named Deloitte Fast 500 three years in a row and backed by top-tier venture capital firms.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate, lead, document and communicate architectural and technical discussions and decisions in the team, assessing risks and tradeoffs, and making sure all voices are heard, while favoring consent over consensus.
• Ensure technical principles, technical direction, policies (secure SDLC, data privacy, secrets management), processes (e.g. RCAs, Post-mortems, SOC2) and best practices are positively adopted and continuously improved by the whole team. Be hands-on and lead by example.
• Develop and promote a high-quality, technical sustainability-focused and continuous learning culture, along with cross-learning spaces and meetups.
• Develop a strong sense of ownership from idea to production, maturing and maintenance in the team.
• Have accountability for continuous system availability, avoiding critical situations, and working side by side with the team when they occur.
• Stay up to date with new technologies and tools, fostering experimentation and innovation with responsibility within the team.
• Contribute to a healthy environment and constantly improve team's engagement, contributing to team's growth by providing technical guidance and mentorship.
• Integrate and actively collaborate with other TLs (from other stream-aligned teams, platform teams, SRE team), seeking to exchange and discuss ideas, proposals, and learnings aimed at improving the Engineering area as a whole.
• Coordinate high or cross-impact deployments of their team across teams, ensuring clear communication of their impact.
• Collaborate with the team's Engineering Manager to adequately staff and expand the capacity of the team on both hiring and training initiatives.
• Anticipate and proactively communicate blockers, delays and cost ballooning of the work to the appropriate stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Communicate with empathy to both technical and non-technical roles, and influences through clarity, enabling alignment across multiple teams.
• Having the flexibility to adapt to the business context with a constructive and positive attitude.

 What we look for in you:

• Open to hire in our Buenos Aires offices, or to work remotely.
• 5+ years of technical leadership in software development teams, solving complex problems that demand the best performance.
• 12+ years of experience shipping high ­quality software.
• Solid knowledge of programming languages and paradigms, software and data modeling architecture and quality.
• Strong sense of empathy toward our product users, committed both to the quality of our products and to user satisfaction.
• Experience balancing perfection and pragmatism, as well as delivering iterative solutions that avoid overengineering.
• Advanced oral and written English skills.
• Strong communication skills. Proactively  work and communicate with multiple areas in the company as well as directly with customers when the situation demands.
• Candid, transparent and honest.
• Trust in your team and ability to effectively delegate work.
• Always willing to help and learn from others and by yourself.
• Have a good balance of determination, autonomy and collaboration.
• Seek continuous and rapid feedback.
• Work by our values: Learning Agile, Team Player, Garra, Above & Beyond.
• Know how to work in an agile and collaborative environment, and contribute to its improvement by ensuring we learn together.
• Strong interest and self driven understanding of our users, our customers, our market, and our product to challenge and co-create ideas and initiatives.

Technical skills we need for you:

• Excellent Javascript programming skills in modern frameworks like Vue.js and React.
• Extensive knowledge of web server-side oriented languages (PHP, Python, Golang, Javascript for Node.js).
• Knowledge of HTML5/CSS3 web application development.
• Knowledge of relational and document oriented databases (MySQL, MongoDB).
• Knowledge of web architectures, services and APIs concepts.
• Experience using design patterns.
• Excellent OOP knowledge.
• Experience with version control (git).
• Experience with Typescript and/or other type checking technologies.
• Experience with API design.
• Proficiency on quality practices such as unit test implementation, integration/contract testing, e2e, backend and frontend performance/load testing, CI quality gates, etc.
• Strong code refactoring skills.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills (e.g. UML).
• Proficiency on AI assisted software development workflows.
• Customer-first mindset.
• Experience with monitoring tools and metrics (Sentry, New Relic, Datadog, Kibana).
• Experience with bug tracking tools like Jira, Redmine, Bugzilla, etc.

Bonus points for having:

• Experience with iterative and incremental development cycles.
• Experience with PHP frameworks (Laravel, Zend, Symfony).
• Experience with complex, high-performance and high-availability apps.
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with functional programming.
• Experience with end-to-end tests.
• Experience with/Knowledge of engineering prompting, MCPs and Agents.
• Experience in complex refactoring of flagship products. 
• A great sense of humor (we sure do!).

 What we offer to you:

• A competitive compensation package that includes equity.
• Company laptop and phone reimbursement.
• Lots of room to own the role and implement new technologies that fuel automation of daily work
• Flexible time off policy to balance your work and life in a way that suits you best
• Being a part of an amazing, inclusive team that lives by our shared values and is committed to building the next phase of Stensul