Engineering Team Lead Location: Worldwide (Remote/Hybrid) Engineering Team Lead About CINC Systems CINC Systems is the leading provider of accounting and management software for the community association management industry. Our platform powers over 50,000 associations and 6 million homes, connecting property managers, boards, and residents through secure, reliable, and intelligent technology. CINC is building the next generation of our SaaS platform: modular, AI-enabled, and experience-driven. Our engineering culture is rooted in clarity, craftsmanship, and continuous learning. We move fast by moving smoothly, focusing on flow, feedback, and fundamentals. About the Role The Engineering Team Lead is a player-coach who combines hands-on technical leadership with deep architectural and organizational insight. They are a builder at heart who leads through example, clarity, and discipline, not control. This person will lead a small, high-impact team that moves fast as three but delivers the impact of twenty-five. They will design and deliver intelligent, cloud-native applications with complex business logic while enabling the team to learn, grow, and deliver continuously. They are at home experimenting, coding, designing, and whiteboarding all in the same day. They thrive in ambiguity, act with intention, and create alignment between local action and broader engineering strategy. They believe that AI is an amplifier of good fundamentals, making strong architecture, clean code, and technical excellence more essential than ever. This role requires someone who is technically fluent, strategically mature, and grounded in the values of Extreme Programming (XP), flow, and continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities - Lead and mentor a lean, high-performing product engineering team that delivers high-value features quickly and safely
- Balance hands-on development, architecture, and leadership to enable the team to move with speed and confidence
- Design and guide evolution of complex systems using domain-driven design, clean architecture, and event-driven patterns
- Apply experience in monolith-to-microservice transitions and domain extraction using the strangler fig pattern
- Collaborate closely with product and design partners to shape AI-enabled user experiences that deliver real value to people
- Champion built-in quality through strong engineering fundamentals: testing, pairing, code reviews, and continuous integration
- Cultivate a “smooth is fast” culture, emphasizing stability, clarity, and the steady flow of value
- Encourage experimentation, learning, and pragmatic use of new AI-native tools and frameworks
- Establish strong feedback loops between customers, design, and engineering to ensure solutions fit real-world needs
- Proactively identify dependencies, integration challenges, and architectural opportunities that impact multiple teams
- Contribute to architectural discussions, help refine standards, and elevate engineering excellence across the organization
- Provide continuous coaching, feedback, and mentorship to help engineers grow technically and professionally
- Model humility, hunger, and people smarts — building a culture where accountability and collaboration coexist naturally
Qualifications Experience and Background - 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating SaaS or enterprise systems
- At least 5 years leading software engineering teams as a hands-on player-coach
- Deep knowledge of software architecture, system design, and engineering principles
- Strong technical fluency in cloud-native architectures and modern web technologies (AWS, TypeScript, Node.js, React, or similar)
- Proven ability to design systems with complex business logic that scale with reliability and maintainability
- Experience applying domain-driven design and modular architecture patterns
- Familiarity with event-driven systems, API-first development, and service integration patterns
- Comfortable applying AI-native engineering practices to accelerate delivery and improve system intelligence
- Experience practicing Extreme Programming (XP) or similar disciplines such as TDD, pairing, refactoring, and continuous delivery
Leadership and Collaboration - Skilled at balancing hands-on development with coaching and strategy
- Excellent communicator who creates psychological safety and alignment through clarity and context
- Strong architectural judgment, capable of simplifying complexity and guiding teams toward durable solutions
- Experienced in creating conditions where engineers can focus, learn, and deliver flow
- Builder mindset: motivated by creating real impact for users and teams
- Deeply customer-obsessed, eager to understand how the product is used and what users truly value
- Pragmatic and disciplined thinker who can operate at both code and system levels
- Able to manage conflict and guide structured discussions toward data-driven, shared decisions
Mindset and Values - Believes good fundamentals are the foundation of innovation and that AI amplifies both the good and the bad
- Operates as a connector and integrator, thinking beyond team boundaries to enable larger success
- Holds extremely high standards and delivers feedback constructively and frequently
- Thrives in ambiguity but acts intentionally to create clarity and alignment
- Views engineering as a craft and leadership as a service
- Believes flow, feedback, and collaboration create speed and sustainability
- Leads with humility, curiosity, and empathy — embodying the traits of the ideal team player
What Success Looks Like - The team delivers continuously with stability, creativity, and measurable business impact
- Quality is built into the process, not tested in at the end
- Engineers grow in autonomy, clarity, and capability under your leadership
- AI-native practices become integrated into daily development with tangible gains in velocity and value
- The broader organization looks to your team as a model of craftsmanship, collaboration, and learning
- The Senior Engineering Manager is recognized as a multiplier — enabling the team to accomplish far more than the sum of its parts
CINC is an Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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