Technical Lead (Engineering)

Solace is a Series C startup focused on redefining healthcare by pairing patients with expert advocates. As a Technical Lead, you will mentor engineers, write production code, and guide the team through technical decisions to create high-quality user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze product requirements and produce high-quality, production-ready code while creating a best-in-class user experience
• Build and maintain new user-facing features with everything from database models to UI components
• Own the technical architecture for major initiatives and guide the team through complex technical decisions
• Create services and APIs to drive existing and new features for web apps
• Maintain the health of our systems and codebase, refactor and make improvements, and keep our systems robust and resilient
• Write clear specs to ensure product/code quality for stress-free deployment
• Drive large releases to production on a continuous deployment cadence
• Set technical standards for code quality, testing, and engineering excellence
• Directly manage 2-6 engineers, conducting 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
• Mentor engineers on technical growth, code quality, and problem-solving approaches through pairing sessions and thoughtful code reviews
• Unblock your team—whether that's a technical challenge, a process bottleneck, or a cross-functional coordination issue
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement within your team
• Participate in hiring: interview candidates, assess technical skills, and help build a world-class engineering team
• Work with product and design partners to translate vision into executable technical plans your team can rally around

Requirements:

• 7+ years of relevant experience on both frontend and backend development, with a proven track record of shipping high-impact products
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers—whether formal or informal. You've helped others level up
• Strong React fundamentals and a background working with Typescript/Node
• An intuitive understanding of what it takes to create delightful, consumer-oriented experiences
• Experience working in a start-up environment where you've worn multiple hats and moved fast
• Exceptional communication skills that help you influence product direction, align stakeholders, and give feedback that lands
• Extreme bias toward action and execution. You get antsy if you're not writing code, improving the codebase, vigilantly enhancing systems, or helping your team do the same
• The ability to balance hands-on technical work with people management—you thrive in both modes
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to create structure where none exists