[Remote] Lead Full Stack Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Accylerate is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer with strong technical depth and people leadership skills. In this role, you will lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for building and evolving critical platform capabilities within the Accommodations Management ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team (30%)
- Manage and mentor a team of 58 engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Provide regular coaching, feedback, and career development support
- Drive team health, engagement, and performance management processes
- Drive hands-on technical leadership and delivery (50%)
- Contribute directly to system design and hands-on development using TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and AWS services
- Lead end-to-end delivery of platform capabilities from design through deployment and production support
- Ensure systems are scalable, secure, resilient, and observable
- Establish and enforce modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and code quality standards
- Partner with architects and enterprise capability teams (Architecture, Security, Compliance) to align on technical direction
- Support adoption of emerging technologies, including AI/ML-enabled capabilities, where appropriate
- Enable cross-team alignment and stakeholder engagement (20%)
- Partner with Product Owners to translate business needs into clear technical plans and execution strategies
- Manage dependencies across teams and systems within the broader platform ecosystem
- Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs to engineering and business stakeholders
- Contribute to roadmap planning and prioritization decisions
Skills
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years managing engineering teams
- Strong hands-on development experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend frameworks (React preferred)
- Experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS
- Proven ability to contribute to system design and architecture while actively coding
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures
- Experience implementing modern engineering practices (CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security)
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex, cross-functional delivery initiatives
- A thoughtful and proactive leadership style that supports continuous improvement and team engagement
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with workflow-driven or compliance-sensitive systems (e.g., case management, decisioning platforms)
- Exposure to AI/ML or data-driven product capabilities
- Experience working within platform-based architectures and shared services ecosystems
- Familiarity with security and regulatory considerations for handling sensitive user data
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