[Remote] Full-Stack Team Lead (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Trellis Law is the largest legal research platform for state trial courts, and they are seeking a Full-Stack Team Lead to develop high-impact user-facing products. This role involves leading full-stack product development while mentoring engineers and managing project priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute directly to full-stack product development, from back-end services and APIs to front-end experiences and templates
• Build scalable features using large datasets, turning complex legal information into clear, useful, and customer-facing product experiences
• Partner closely with Product and Design to translate requirements into thoughtful, reliable, and well-executed applications
• Triage incoming technical issues, bugs, and product requests, helping the team prioritize the right work and stay focused
• Manage and support engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, coaching, career development, and project guidance
• Collaborate with back-end, data science and R&D engineers on large-scale data initiatives, system improvements, and product launches
• Provide technical leadership across projects, helping define implementation plans, review approaches, and ensure strong engineering standards

Skills

• 8+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and shipping production software
• Experience leading engineers through complex projects, whether as a tech lead, engineering manager, or hands-on team lead
• Strong Python experience and working knowledge of a Python web framework; Django experience is a plus
• Solid understanding of API architecture, front-end JavaScript frameworks, and server-rendered/front-end template development
• Ability to translate product and design requirements into clean, scalable, and maintainable applications
• Strong judgment when balancing technical quality, product needs, team capacity, and delivery timelines
• Comfort managing both technical execution and people leadership responsibilities in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with AWS, Linux, Celery, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar infrastructure and data-processing tools
• Experience with frontend libraries Vue JS, Vike for SSR, JQuery, and Typescript
• Experience working with large-scale datasets, search products, analytics tools, or data-heavy applications
• Prior experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment
• Familiarity with legal tech, public records, court data, or other complex data domains
• BS/MS in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Full Medical, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family). ALL premiums covered!
• 401k w/ full match up to state limit
• Work from anywhere, but be willing to travel for sales meetings, leadership retreats, etc
• Flexible vacation policy. You manage your own time

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