Canopytax Engineering Team Lead at Canopy leads a cross-functional team to build and scale embedded analytics and reporting features. The role combines hands-on coding, architectural leadership, and people development.
Responsibilities
We’re seeking an Engineering Team Lead to lead engineering efforts on our Embedded Analytics team. As an Engineering Team Lead, you will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership and a product-driven mindset. You’ll lead a high-performing, cross-functional squad of Full Stack Application Engineers, Data Engineers, and QA Engineers to build, scale, and evolve the systems that power our customer-facing reporting and analytics features. This role bridges hands-on technical work, architectural leadership, and people development — ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technology, strategy, and team impact.
This role is a unique opportunity to guide the transformation of our embedded analytics into a new era of AI enabled business intelligence, providing high performing, trustworthy, and actionable reporting and analytics to our customers at a higher scale and speed than has been possible before.
Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional engineering and data team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
Own end-to-end delivery of your squad's product area — from early involvement in product discovery and design validation through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-ship monitoring. You will own the stack, working collaboratively with systems architects to design the most effective data and analytics platform.
Write code, review code, and architect solutions. You understand the codebase deeply enough to make informed tradeoffs and unblock your team.
Partner with the Product team as a collaborative equal — validating technical feasibility early, pushing back when scope is unrealistic, and advocating for quality and stability as first-class priorities alongside new features.
Balance feature work against bugs, tech debt, performance, and reliability. Work collaboratively with Product leadership to allocate engineering time towards the stability and high performance needs of our customers.
Drive architectural decision-making, balancing innovation, scalability, and delivery speed.
Promote engineering best practices, including clean architecture, testing, monitoring, and performance optimization.
Help the team break work down, manage flow, and ensure design, engineering, and QA operate in parallel rather than in sequential phases.
Champion high-quality code through design reviews, code reviews, and robust CI/CD pipelines (Docker, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes). Own the definition of "done" — tested, stable, monitored, and maintainable.
Coach engineers on career growth, system design, and effective collaboration. Because you work alongside your team daily, feedback is immediate, specific, and grounded in real work.
Qualification
Deep understanding of SQLBachelor's degree in Computer ScienceWhy You Want to Work Here
Required
5+ years of professional experience in software development and/or data engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership or management capacity.
Deep understanding of SQL, data modeling, and analytics/reporting
Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Proven success leading technical teams and mentoring engineers of varied seniority levels.
Experience with or strong enthusiasm for AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills — able to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences.
Strategic thinker who can connect engineering priorities to product and business outcomes.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
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Preferred
Deep understanding of microservice architecture, RESTful API design, distributed systems, and modern frontend frameworks.
Strong hands-on proficiency in one or more of our core technologies (Python, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript/React), with the ability and willingness to learn and work across the stack.
Why You Want to Work Here
🌴 Flexible Paid Time Off - you’re actually encouraged to use, plus 10 company holidays!
❤️🩹 Health Benefits - including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA Match.
💰 401(k) - we match 100% up to 3% of your contribution. Eligibility is immediate with 100% vesting.
🧠 Mental Health - all employees have access to Impact Suite & to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
👶 Paid New Parent Leave & Birthing Parent Leave - so you’re able to care for your little ones.
