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Team Lead, People Technology

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $140,000–$180,000🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-25

Core

Founding technical leader for a new internal team building and maintaining a suite of eight purpose-built HR applications (recruiting, onboarding, recognition, engagement) to serve HR stakeholders.

Role type

Senior IC full-stack engineer (founding team lead)

Builds

Internal HR applications (campus recruiting quizzes, candidate pipelines, onboarding forms, peer recognition, trend tracking)

Domain

HR Technology / Internal Tools

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Full-stack engineering, Python, TypeScript/React, PostgreSQL, roadmap ownership, stakeholder translation, autonomous team building

Preferred skills

Ruby/Sinatra, FastAPI, Flask, Next.js, technical mentoring, HR systems familiarity

Technologies

Python, TypeScript, React, Ruby, FastAPI, Flask, Next.js, PostgreSQL

Responsibilities

Own technical direction and roadmap for eight HR applications; serve as primary engineering contact for HR stakeholders; assess tech debt and modernization opportunities; validate initial staffing model and hire second engineer; write and ship production code; formalize support processes and workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC (founding member)

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