Team Lead, Engineering

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.The Opportunity at Altana The Engineering organization is responsible for building the product that brings this vision to life. We are creating a platform fundamentally driven by AI, which scales to a massive trove of data, and a diverse customer base; it is a complex system that will stretch engineering in many directions. The best teams here ship work customers come to rely on, and that takes a particular kind of engineering practice. It means starting inside the customer's workflow rather than at the ticket. It means treating every release as a hypothesis you can prove or disprove. It means reaching for AI as a primary building block, not a feature you bolt on at the end. And it means owning a product endtoend, from the first conversation through product launch. As a Team Lead at Altana, you'll lead a small team of 34 engineers in delivering this work to customers.. You'll embed with product and design, make the day-to-day product and technical calls, and turn hypotheses about where the real pain is into shipped, adopted products. This is an engineering role first: leading the team adds to your own engineering leverage rather than replacing it. Your success is measured the same way the team's is: by the value it delivers to customers, how quickly and steadily it ships, and how well its systems hold up as output grows. You Will Ship, and set the technical bar. Hands-on engineering is a large share of this role. Own the team's architecture and quality standards, and be the last line of defense before work reaches customers. Own the problem, not just the ticket. Define the customer problem in your own words before choosing a solution, make the tactical product calls, and own a metric tied to a customer outcome. Go to the customer every week. Get on calls, review session recordings, and be able to name the top three friction points in your area at any moment. Turn ambiguity into a plan. Clarify goals before committing, break unclear problems into milestones and MVP/GA releases, manage the backlog, and sequence work so a small team makes steady, predictable progress. Build AI-native, and verify it. Treat LLMs, agents, evals, and retrieval as standard building blocks. Own the standard for how AI-assisted code is verified before it ships. Keep the team moving fast. Track velocity with our shared engineering metrics, find bottlenecks, push to pay down operational debt, and raise cross-team gaps with leadership. Own what you run. Lead the team's incident response, including a quick-response escalation rotation. Treat cost as a design input, and when you spot a cost anomaly, flag it along with a proposed fix. Uphold our security standards in code review and fix flagged vulnerabilities quickly. Show the work. Demo what the team builds directly to customers, our commercial team, and product and engineering leadership. Help your teammates grow. Coach a few engineers, write reviews, and partner with your engineering manager on timely, actionable feedback. Interview candidates, and help build a team where everyone's ideas are heard. You Have Real-world professional experience writing back end or data-driven software in demanding environments. Strong hands-on engineering skills and sound technical judgment. You've deployed production code to cloud environments, and you know when a design needs more input and how to get it. Experience coaching, mentoring, and leading other engineers on complex projects, as a tech lead, project lead, or senior engineer driving a team effort. A track record of staying close to customers, turning their problems into well-scoped, shipped work, and delivering incremental releases from prototype to production. Experience running sprint planning and delivery for a team that consistently hits its commitments. Comfort with ope