[Remote] Full-Stack Team Lead (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Trellis Law is the largest legal research platform for state trial courts, and they are seeking a Full-Stack Team Lead to develop high-impact user-facing products. This role involves leading full-stack product development while mentoring engineers and managing project priorities.
Responsibilities
- Lead and contribute directly to full-stack product development, from back-end services and APIs to front-end experiences and templates
- Build scalable features using large datasets, turning complex legal information into clear, useful, and customer-facing product experiences
- Partner closely with Product and Design to translate requirements into thoughtful, reliable, and well-executed applications
- Triage incoming technical issues, bugs, and product requests, helping the team prioritize the right work and stay focused
- Manage and support engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, coaching, career development, and project guidance
- Collaborate with back-end, data science and R&D engineers on large-scale data initiatives, system improvements, and product launches
- Provide technical leadership across projects, helping define implementation plans, review approaches, and ensure strong engineering standards
Skills
- 8+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and shipping production software
- Experience leading engineers through complex projects, whether as a tech lead, engineering manager, or hands-on team lead
- Strong Python experience and working knowledge of a Python web framework; Django experience is a plus
- Solid understanding of API architecture, front-end JavaScript frameworks, and server-rendered/front-end template development
- Ability to translate product and design requirements into clean, scalable, and maintainable applications
- Strong judgment when balancing technical quality, product needs, team capacity, and delivery timelines
- Comfort managing both technical execution and people leadership responsibilities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with AWS, Linux, Celery, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar infrastructure and data-processing tools
- Experience with frontend libraries Vue JS, Vike for SSR, JQuery, and Typescript
- Experience working with large-scale datasets, search products, analytics tools, or data-heavy applications
- Prior experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment
- Familiarity with legal tech, public records, court data, or other complex data domains
- BS/MS in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Full Medical, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family). ALL premiums covered!
- 401k w/ full match up to state limit
- Work from anywhere, but be willing to travel for sales meetings, leadership retreats, etc
- Flexible vacation policy. You manage your own time
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