Key skills
AIGenAIClaudeAnthropicNext.jsNode.jsGCPGoogle CloudAgileCI/CDLeadershipMentoringCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
SoHookd is a rapidly growing corporate wellness platform dedicated to improving employee well-being. They are seeking a dynamic Lead Engineer responsible for technical leadership and delivery of engineering teams while driving architectural decisions and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of AI fluency and continuous improvement
- Drive the integration of GenAI development workflows and tooling into product features and internal engineering workflows
- Evaluate and guide adoption of GenAI-assisted development tooling — including prompt engineering best practices, model evaluation, and responsible AI use
- Partner with Product on sprint planning, execution, and delivery
- Track and improve DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate)
- Conduct 1:1s with engineers
- Partner with security and compliance teams and consultants on SOC 2 readiness and technical audits
- Drive architectural and operational improvements to ensure scalability, maintainability, and AI-readiness across our GCP infrastructure
- Ensure smooth collaboration across functions — Product, Development, and Business
Requirements:
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a formal leadership or staff-level role
- Proven ability to lead, grow, and retain cross-functional engineering teams
- Hands-on experience building with Claude AI or the Anthropic API (prompt engineering, tool use, context management)
- Strong hands-on experience in Node.js, Next.js, and with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Solid understanding of agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices on GCP
- Strong full-stack or backend technical foundation with experience shipping production systems at scale
- Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate complexity for both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with code review, technical documentation, and engineering process improvement
- Experience in SOC 2 or other compliance-focused environments is a plus
- Familiarity with workflow based systems (e.g. Temporal) is a plus