Engineering Squad Lead - 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 http://Mistral.ai choose Lago for their billing. And we have barely spent any money on Marketing or Ads so far.

We're a team of ambitious, focused individuals who solve hard problems with excellence and accountability. At Lago, we value reliability and proactivity. We trust each other to own tasks, drive them to completion, and continuously improve them. While we encourage you to try fast and “fail fast”, we also expect you to learn fast: make mistakes, but don't make the same one twice.

If you're excited by challenges and want to grow alongside a high-performing, supportive team, this is the place for you.

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.

You won't be handed a fully-formed system to maintain. Lago is a fast-moving product in a complex domain, billing infrastructure where precision and reliability genuinely matter. You'll need to make sound architectural decisions quickly, communicate trade-offs clearly, and hold a high bar without slowing the team down.

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