Engineering Leader

Role Summary

TopQuadrant is seeking an Engineering Leader to lead our software engineering organization and partner closely with Product and other cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality, predictable releases across our product portfolio. This role blends technical leadership with people management, organizational development and strategic technical direction. Familiarity with modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development workflows and AI-enabled product capabilities, is increasingly important as we continue to modernize our platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering teams to deliver high-quality features, improvements, and releases across a stack that includes Java, Spring/Spring Boot, Spring Security, and React.

• Partner with Product on planning, prioritization, roadmap execution, and SDLC health.

• Maintain and improve release predictability, quality and developer experience.

• Collaborate with Tech Leads on architectural decisions and strategic technical initiatives.

• Ensure effective communication and coordination across engineering, product, QA, infrastructure and security.

• Partner with Infrastructure/Security leads to support SOC 2 controls, incident response and security posture.

• Support staffing planning, hiring, onboarding, and vendor/staff augmentation relationships.

• Champion engineering best practices, coding standards, testing, and CI/CD improvements.

• Foster an engaged, inclusive and continuous-improvement culture within Engineering.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership role.

• Strong track record of leading development teams and delivering high-quality software at scale.

• Solid technical foundation in modern backend and frontend ecosystems, including Java/Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Security, and React.

• Experience improving SDLC processes, release management and engineering workflows.

• Ability to partner effectively with Product and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Solid technical foundation with the ability to understand architecture, code quality and system design.

• Comfortable working in a smaller organization where leaders are hands-on and collaborative.

• Experience with compliance-oriented environments (SOC2 is a must, GxP is a plus).

• Familiarity with semantic technologies (Jena, RDF, OWL, SPARQL, SHACL) or willingness to learn.

• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.

Working at TopQuadrant is best exemplified by our values:

• Possibility (aka the “Why Not” mentality): We embrace new ideas and ways of thinking because we never let an opportunity to “level up” pass us by. Piloting and testing good ideas will keep us learning. In general, moving faster is better.

• Humility (aka “Gate check your baggage”): Best ideas win. We check our assumptions and our egos at the door. Titles, the “the way things were,” or “should have been” just don’t matter. The best ideas focus on the greater good. When in doubt, customers (and customer value) know best.

• Ownership: Finish lines matter. We expect ourselves and each other to step up and own processes and outcomes to completion. We give credit, let decision makers decide, ask for and give feedback, point fingers inward first, examine every cost, and never make excuses because that’s what makes great teams great.

• Partnership: Customers value us because we provide them with superpowers they’ve never had. We do not simply provide a product or service; we engage as equal partners in their solution. We influence the outcome and express our expertise and opinions unapologetically. And when we succeed, we share in the value we deliver because we value our time, our technology, and ourselves.

• Teamwork:  Be the person you’d want to work with. Build each other up.