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What You'll Own:

  • Own your team's delivery end to end — velocity, predictability, and quality — from cycle planning to production.
  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of three to eight engineers through regular 1:1s, honest feedback, and career development.
  • Own team-level cycle shaping and planning, ground commitments in engineering analysis, and represent team capacity to Product.

How You'll Show Up:

  • Live our values and build team culture through behavior, not policy.
  • Lead as a player-coach — hands-on when needed, stepping back as the team grows.
  • Communicate with clarity and honesty — deliver hard feedback, escalate problems, and advocate for the team.

What You Bring:

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering in a complex, multi-tenant SaaS product with hands-on technical work.
  • 1+ years leading engineers as a manager, tech lead, or team lead, owning outcomes through others.
  • Technical depth in PHP/Laravel, TypeScript (NestJS/Angular), MongoDB, and AWS to engage in architecture and PR reviews.

Element451

Element451 builds an AI-powered platform that reshapes how colleges and universities recruit, enroll, and support students. The company is a small, focused team that values impact, progress, learning, teamwork, and customer success.

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