Engineering Squad Lead - Lago

About Lago

At Lago, we're on a mission to make Monetization simpler for tech companies. As the leading open-source billing platform, we help businesses build flexible pricing models and scale with confidence. We've raised over $22 million in funding from top-tier investors including Y Combinator and FirstMark.

Our platform has garnered around 10K stars on GitHub, a testament to our active and growing developer community. Companies such as PayPal, CoreWeave, Synthesia, and Mistral.ai choose Lago for their billing.

Overview

We're hiring an Engineering Squad Lead to take full ownership of one of the focused domains here at Lago: shipping features, keeping production healthy, and coordinating the team around you.

This is a role that blends hands-on technical contribution with operational leadership. You'll stay close to the code while also being the person who keeps the squad moving: scoping work with Product, unblocking engineers, owning production incidents, and making sure the team is building with quality and velocity.

What you'll be doing

Technology

• Share technical authority with the Staff Engineer for your squad's domain: evaluate trade-offs together and drive architecture decisions
• Stay hands-on: code review, prototyping, contributing to critical paths
• Maintain code quality and review standards within the squad
• Own the code health of your domain

Delivery

• Own the squad's roadmap execution for the quarter
• Run sprint planning, keep work moving, and unblock engineers day-to-day
• Ensure the squad is prepared for biweekly product demos and decide who presents
• Act as the primary engineering point of contact for Product: scope features, communicate trade-offs, and align on priorities

Production

• Own production health for your squad's domain: monitor dashboards (Grafana, Sentry), respond to alerts, and resolve incidents
• Triage and resolve customer-reported issues within SLA targets, working in coordination with Customer Success
• Monitor and address CVEs and security vulnerabilities within your domain

People

• Coordinate a squad of up to 10 engineers
• Run operational 1:1s, give day-to-day feedback, and flag performance signals to the Head of Engineering
• Coordinate the onboarding of new team members into the squad

Process

• Define and adjust the squad's ways of working: balancing agility and discipline as the team and product evolve
• Drive engineering excellence: track DORA metrics, reduce cycle time, raise the quality bar
• Continuously improve how the squad works based on team feedback and results

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience (ideally 2/3+ in a Squad or Tech Lead position), with a strong command of backend systems and production environments
• Track record of shipping reliable, high-quality software in a fast-moving product company
• Comfortable working in a complex technical domain: distributed systems, APIs, data integrity, or similar
• Strong communication skills — written and verbal, with the ability to bridge engineering and product effectively
• Experience owning production: incident response, monitoring, on-call, SLA ownership
• Recent experience working with a Ruby on Rails codebase

Nice to Have

• Experience in billing, fintech, or usage-based pricing infrastructure
• Familiarity with DORA metrics and engineering effectiveness frameworks
• Background working in or contributing to open-source projects
• Exposure to developer tooling or API-first product companies

Why Join Lago?

• Work with top-tier international talent: Join a team that values excellence, slope over intercept, and accountability.
• Shape the future of monetization and fintech: Be at the forefront of the monetization revolution driven by AI.
• Fully remote: Work from anywhere in Europe.
• Competitive package: Competitive salary and stock options.