Job Title: Lead Engineer Company Name: Vocator Job Url: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4393016745/?eBP=NON_CHARGEABLE_CHANNEL&refId=YjbStl59dONYk2r3J3jiqw%3D%3D&trackingId=BhTf2N646GvZrRGaZRG76g%3D%3D&trk=flagship3_search_srp_jobs Job Description: Vocator (Formerly Source Coders) Share Show more options Lead Engineer United States · 1 hour ago · 11 people clicked apply Promoted by hirer · Responses managed off LinkedIn Remote Full-time Apply Save Save Lead Engineer at Vocator (Formerly Source Coders) How your profile and resume fit this job Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features with Premium. Try Premium for $0 Show match details Tailor my resume Help me stand out About the job Position: Engineering Lead Location: Fully Remote - W2 Headquarters: Arlington, VA Compensation: Up to $160k + Benefits Our client builds the platforms that connect people across languages: interpretation, translation, and language access technology for healthcare, government, and enterprise clients. We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead to own the end-to-end delivery of our core product platforms within the squads in their purview. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will lead a small, autonomous squad responsible for shipping production software at speed — from prototype to production — while partnering directly with Product Management to turn business goals into working systems. Overview We are is scaling from a single engineering team into multiple autonomous squads, each aligned to a core product in our portfolio (language access platforms, AI-powered workflow engines, and compliance-governed SaaS products serving healthcare, government, and enterprise clients). The Engineering Lead is the technical owner of their product. You will spend approximately 90% of your time writing production code and 10% coordinating with and technically leading your squad. You will make architectural decisions for your squad's domain and set the quality bar through your own contributions. You are also responsible for the velocity, growth, and accountability of your squad members. This role will initially own the Connectus platform — our recently launched language access product, currently in active customer migration, built on a mature TypeScript/React/cloud-native stack. Key Responsibilities Own the technical direction, delivery, and operational health of your squad's product area. You are the single-threaded owner. If it ships broken, it's yours. If it ships fast and clean, that's yours too. Ownership means accountability for outcomes — not just tickets — and a close, ongoing partnership with Product Management to ensure what you build solves real customer problems. Write production code daily. You will contribute directly to critical-path features, core libraries, and infrastructure. This is not a meetings-and-slide-deck role. Approximately 90% of your time is spent building. Prototype rapidly. When a new capability is needed — whether it's an AI-powered translation pipeline, a Twilio integration, or a new API surface — you build the first working version, validate the approach, and then lead your squad through hardening it for production. Integrate AI tools responsibly into your development workflow. You will use AI-assisted development tools (AI-assisted IDEs, GitHub Copilot, MCP integrations, and AI-powered automation workflows) as a practical part of your daily work — to speed up development, reduce toil, and integrate with external systems. Developer creativity and direct code authorship remain central; this is not an AI-delegated development model. You will establish responsible patterns for your squad to do the same and continuously evaluate tools that meaningfully increase output. Partner directly with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical plans. You will own sprint planning, backlog grooming, and delivery commitments for your squad. You are expected to think in terms of customer outcomes and business impact, not just technical implementation. Perform rigorous code reviews and mentor engineers on your squad. You will raise the technical bar through pairing, review feedback, and clear standards for code quality, testing, and documentation. Own your squad's CI/CD pipeline, deployment process, and production monitoring. You will implement and maintain automated testing, build pipelines, and observability tooling to ensure your squad can ship confidently and respond to incidents quickly. Manage and hold accountable external development partners who contribute periodically to your squad's codebase, ensuring their output meets our standards for quality, security, and architectural consistency. Collaborate with the Director of Engineering and other Squad Leads on cross-cutting concerns including shared libraries, platform infrastructure, security standards, and engineering-wide processes. Qualifications 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in a technical lead or team lead capacity. Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript (strict mode) and modern cloud-native architectures (containerized microservices, serverless, event-driven patterns). Strong experience with AWS services (ECS/Fargate, SQS, S3, RDS/Aurora, Bedrock, or equivalent cloud platforms). Demonstrated, practical use of AI-assisted development tools as a regular part of your engineering workflow — including AI-assisted IDEs, automation tooling, and MCP-based integrations during development. Experience with PostgreSQL, Prisma or similar ORMs, and RESTful API design. Solid understanding of security fundamentals: audit logging, role-based access control (RBAC), and security best practices in cloud-native environments. Hands-on HIPAA or FedRAMP experience is a plus but not required; compliance frameworks can be learned on the job. Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration. You can take a vague requirement, build a working prototype in days, and iterate based on feedback. Strong ownership mentality. You do not wait for permission, escalate problems you can solve, or treat production incidents as someone else's responsibility. Product- and business-minded. You think about customers and outcomes, not just code. Experience working with and holding accountable external vendors or contract developers. Preferred Experience Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms, particularly in regulated industries (healthcare, government, legal). Familiarity with HIPAA technical safeguards, FedRAMP security controls, or equivalent compliance frameworks. Experience with real-time communication platforms (Twilio, WebRTC, SIP) or language services technology (OPI, VRI, translation pipelines). Experience with AI/ML integration, particularly LLM-powered features, prompt engineering, or AI workflow orchestration (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, Claude, OpenAI). Familiarity with Nx monorepos, Fastify, React 18+, and modern frontend tooling (Vite, Tailwind, shadcn/ui). Experience with Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Familiarity with Datadog, Sentry, or equivalent observability platforms. Work Environment This position can be remote or based out of our Arlington, VA office. You will be expected to overlap core hours with your squad and with Product Management, regardless of time zone. Incident response is ad hoc rather than a formal on-call rotation; our globally distributed team provides coverage during business hours across time zones, though occasional off-hours or weekend availability may be needed to respond to production issues. See mor