Software Engineering Team Lead

Responsibilities

• People Leadership
• Directly supervise engineers on your team; conduct performance check-ins, feedback, and development planning.
• Uphold Bluestaq's core values of trust, ownership, curiosity, teamwork, mentorship, and talent development, fostering a culture where team members take initiative, support one another, and grow together.
• Mentor engineers in both technical execution and professional development.
• Create psychological safety. Foster an environment where engineers feel safe to ask questions, raise concerns, surface problems early, and challenge ideas constructively. Teams that feel safe move faster and produce better outcomes.
• Navigate difficult conversations with empathy and directness. Whether it's performance feedback, conflict resolution, or organizational change, communicate hard things honestly while maintaining trust and respect.
• Identify and escalate growth needs, performance concerns, or resourcing issues to the Engineering Manager.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and retention of high-performing engineering talent.
• Technical Leadership (Software Engineering Focus)
• Guide a small team of software engineers in designing and building secure, scalable software systems for government and commercial applications.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the team, including code contributions where appropriate.
• Ensure consistent application of modern software development practices, including CI/CD, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Support resolution of complex technical challenges, stepping in directly when needed to unblock progress.
• Promote code quality, maintainability, and secure development practices throughout the sprint cycle.
• Guide your team through complex implementations and align technical work with architecture standards and security requirements.
• Partner with architects and senior engineers to support scalability, performance, and maintainability across systems.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to evaluate and implement appropriate tools, languages, and frameworks aligned with mission and program needs.
• Stay current with relevant technologies and introduce improvements in tooling, languages, and frameworks where they meaningfully improve outcom

Benefits

Additional Information

About Bluestaq At Bluestaq, we build secure data platforms that matter for space missions, national defense, healthcare systems, and commercial innovation. Founded in 2018, we've become a leader in enterprise software and secure data management by staying focused on what counts: modern architecture, operational excellence, and mission impact. We're engineers, problem-solvers, and builders who take the mission seriously, but not ourselves. We automate the repeatable, question the status quo, and design systems that are as reliable as they are scalable. Whether we're supporting space, defense systems, or healthcare advancements, we build with the same principles: cloud-native solutions, security by design, and relentless simplicity. Our name? "Blue" (military shorthand for the good guys) and "staq" (as in software stack). It's who we are, mission-aligned technologists building platforms that protect the world's most valuable data. Recognized Excellence We've earned national recognition as one of Inc. Magazine's Fastest-Growing Private Companies and consistently rank among Colorado's Best Workplaces. But what we're most proud of? The systems we build, the teams we develop, and the mission outcomes we enable. Software Engineering Team Lead We are seeking a technically skilled and people-centered Software Engineering Team Lead to guide a small team of engineers building secure, scalable solutions for government and commercial missions. In this pivotal role, you'll combine deep technical contributions with direct team supervision, ensuring that delivery stays on track, systems meet quality and security standards, and engineers are supported in their growth. As a first-line leader, you will coach, mentor, and develop team members while also serving as the technical point of contact within your domain. You'll work closely with Product, Program, and Engineering stakeholders to align execution with broader strategic goals. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys empowering others to do their best work and is comfortable stepping in to unblock complex technical challenges when needed. Why This Role Matters Team Leads are the connective tissue between execution and leadership. Your work directly impacts how well engineering teams deliver, how quickly they adapt, and how confidently they scale. By combining day-to-day technical leadership with people development, you'll help ensure our systems are built to last and our engineers are equipped to grow. If you're driven by technical excellence, passionate about building high-performing teams, and ready to lead from the front, this is your opportunity to play a key role in advancing national security and commercial innovation.

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