Engineering Lead

Codal is searching for a hands-on Engineering Lead to perform various architectural tasks and provide technical leadership. You’ll lead a squad of engineers through the complexities of modern backend development, and ensure that our frontend experiences are supported by high- performance APIs, secure data modeling, and optimized cloud infrastructure. Your "superpower" should be building robust, scalable server-side environments that power high-traffic enterprise applications. 
To ensure success, you should have extensive experience with designing architectures and web applications, ensuring the team delivers robust, scalable and secure solutions.
This role involves hands-on coding along with a team of 4-5 engineers, maintaining high quality and standards across the full stack to deliver high-performance technologies.

Who You’ll Be Working With:

You’ll work as an Engineering Manager alongside client stakeholders, project managers, designers and engineering teams to guide projects from early discovery through delivery. You’ll be a key technical point of contact, helping clients and internal teams align on approach and execution while ensuring solutions are practical, scalable, and well-built.

What you bring:

• Deep expertise in technologies including Node.js, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and modern frontend & CMS frameworks
• Technical design architecture for implementing complex web applications and scalable backend systems.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in software architecture, database systems (BigQuery/SQL/NoSQL), and cloud-native applications.
• Demonstrated ability in delivery, scalability, and solving complex technical challenges.
• High standards of code quality, performance, and security across all project deliverables.
• Code reviews to find slow code and vulnerabilities
  Mentorship: technical guidance to team members to ensure best practices.
• Strong communication, leadership, and Agile methodology skills.

What is required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in hands-on full-stack development and technical leadership, delivering enterprise level projects
• 3+ years of engineering lead experience, managing a team of 3-5 

Need another reason to hit the “apply” button? 

• Codal is a global agency with over 200 employees, and offices in the US, Canada, the UK, and India 
• We regularly host happy hours, dinners, excursions, and other company events to unwind after a hard day at work
• Office snacks and drinks + a fancy Bevi water machine with flavored water 
• We offer Medical, Life, Dental/Vision, and many more insurance types 
• Employer 401k match - 4% 
• A recreational group that regularly competes in city leagues for softball and volleyball 
• An office in the heart of downtown Chicago with a gym, food court, Walgreens, rooftop bar, outdoor sports court, and other amenities
• Working hybrid for in-person collaboration and sprint-planning days

Please note this role is open to Chicagoland residents and is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.