Engineering Lead

Hello, we’re Instrumentl. We’re a mission-driven startup helping the nonprofit sector to drive impact, and we’re well on our way to becoming the #1 most-loved grant discovery and management tool. To help us get there, we’re hiring an Engineering Lead to provide both technical leadership and people management for one of our product engineering teams. If you’re excited by the idea of building great software, mentoring a strong team, and applying AI in practical, user-facing ways, we’d love to hear from you. About us: Instrumentl is a hypergrowth YC-backed startup with over 5,000 nonprofit clients, from local homeless shelters to larger organizations like the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska. We are building the future of fundraising automation, helping nonprofits to discover, track, and manage grants efficiently through our SaaS platform. Since 2015, our customers have used Instrumentl to find, win, and manage over $6.7 billion in grant funding.  Our charts are dramatically up-and-to-the-right 📈 — we’re cash flow positive and doubling year-over-year, with customers who love us (NPS is 65+ and Ellis PMF survey is 60+). Join us on this rocket ship!  About the role: As an Engineering Lead at Instrumentl, you’ll help shape technical direction, support engineers in their growth, and ensure we’re delivering scalable, high-impact product experiences, especially through the use of modern AI tools and features.  Instrumentl’s engineers are organized into five teams: - Growth/GTM: go-to-market tooling - Discover: grant discovery features  - Apply: grant application/proposal development and submission features - Manage: grant award tracking and reporting features  - Data, Tools, and Infrastructure (DTI): platform and internal tooling  You will embed with one of the above groups in a hands-on leadership role, actively balancing team management with individual technical contribution. Get to know us at instrumentl.com/about! The Instrumentl team is fully distributed (though if you’d like to work from our Oakland office, we would love to see you there). For this position, we are looking for someone who has significant overlap with Pacific Time Zone working hours.