<div class="content-intro"><p>Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.</p></div><p><strong>The Opportunity at Altana</strong></p> <p>The Engineering organization is responsible for building the product that brings this vision to life. We are creating a platform fundamentally driven by AI, which scales to a massive trove of data, and a diverse customer base; it is a complex system that will stretch engineering in many directions.</p> <p>The best teams here ship work customers come to rely on, and that takes a particular kind of engineering practice. It means starting inside the customer's workflow rather than at the ticket. It means treating every release as a hypothesis you can prove or disprove. It means reaching for AI as a primary building block, not a feature you bolt on at the end. And it means owning a product end‑to‑end, from the first conversation through product launch.</p> <p>As a Team Lead at Altana, you'll lead a small team of 3–4 engineers in delivering this work to customers.. You'll embed with product and design, make the day-to-day product and technical calls, and turn hypotheses about where the real pain is into shipped, adopted products. This is an engineering role first: leading the team adds to your own engineering leverage rather than replacing it. Your success is measured the same way the team's is: by the value it delivers to customers, how quickly and steadily it ships, and how well its systems hold up as output grows.</p> <p><strong>You Will</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Ship, and set the technical bar.</strong> Hands-on engineering is a large share of this role. Own the team's architecture and quality standards, and be the last line of defense before work reaches customers.</li> <li><strong>Own the problem, not just the ticket.</strong> Define the customer problem in your own words before choosing a solution, make the tactical product calls, and own a metric tied to a customer outcome.</li> <li><strong>Go to the customer every week.</strong> Get on calls, review session recordings, and be able to name the top three friction points in your area at any moment.</li> <li><strong>Turn ambiguity into a plan.</strong> Clarify goals before committing, break unclear problems into milestones and MVP/GA releases, manage the backlog, and sequence work so a small team makes steady, predictable progress.</li> <li><strong>Build AI-native, and verify it.</strong> Treat LLMs, agents, evals, and retrieval as standard building blocks. Own the standard for how AI-assisted code is verified before it ships.</li> <li><strong>Keep the team moving fast.</strong> Track velocity with our shared engineering metrics, find bottlenecks, push to pay down operational debt, and raise cross-team gaps with leadership.</li> <li><strong>Own what you run.</strong> Lead the team's incident response, including a quick-response escalation rotation. Treat cost as a design input, and when you spot a cost anomaly, flag it along with a proposed fix. Uphold our security standards in code review and fix flagged vulnerabilities quickly.</li> <li><strong>Show the work.</strong> Demo what the team builds directly to customers, our commercial team, and product and engineering leadership.</li> <li><strong>Help your teammates grow.</strong> Coach a few engineers, write reviews, and partner with your engineering manager on timely, actionable feedback. Interview candidates, and help build a team where everyone's ideas are heard.</li> </ul> <p><strong>You Have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Real-world professional experience writing back end or data-driven software in demanding environments.</li> <li>Strong hands-on engineering skills and sound technical judgment. You've deployed production code to cloud environments, and you know when a design needs more input and how to get it.</li> <li>Experience coaching, mentoring, and leading other engineers on complex projects, as a tech lead, project lead, or senior engineer driving a team effort.</li> <li>A track record of staying close to customers, turning their problems into well-scoped, shipped work, and delivering incremental releases from prototype to production.</li> <li>Experience running sprint planning and delivery for a team that consistently hits its commitments.</li> <li>Comfort with operations, including incidents, on-call, and system cost.</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication skills, and good judgment about when to make a call yourself and when to escalate.</li> <li>Experience building production systems with LLMs, agents, evals, or retrieval.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have, but not required</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience directly managing engineers.</li> <li>Experience using engineering metrics such as DORA or SPACE to improve how a team works.</li> <li>Background in trade, supply chain, compliance, or working with government customers.</li> </ul> <p><strong>This role is based in Brooklyn, NY, USA with hybrid work flexibility and candidates must be within commuting distance from our Williamsburg, Brooklyn office</strong><strong><br></strong><strong><br></strong><strong>US Salary Range and Benefits</strong></p> <p>$230,000 - $270,000 USD</p> <p>The salary range, to the extent specified for