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Team Lead, Software Development

Modern Campus · Remote (United States) · Remote

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About Modern Campus

About Modern Campus Modern Campus empowers institutions to move with confidence across the modern learner journey. Backed by 500 Global.

About the role

In this role, you will lead the team’s people, technology, and delivery while remaining hands-on in software development. You will guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, facilitate Scrum, and partner with Product, QA, Architecture, DevOps, and Security to deliver high-quality software. You will also help lead our agentic-first approach to software development—using AI and coding agents to increase engineering leverage while maintaining strong standards for architecture, security, quality, and reliability. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Lead and develop a Scrum team of approximately 4–7 engineers
  • Conduct regular 1:1s, provide coaching and feedback, and support career development
  • Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and promote effective Agile practices
  • Partner with Product and QA to refine work, define acceptance criteria, and align delivery with priorities
  • Manage team capacity, commitments, risks, dependencies, and release milestones
  • Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
More about this role

Position Summary

We are looking for a Team Lead, Software Development to lead a small, high-performing Scrum team responsible for building, modernizing, and supporting enterprise SaaS applications utilizing agentic development processes

In this role, you will lead the team’s people, technology, and delivery while remaining hands-on in software development. You will guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, facilitate Scrum, and partner with Product, QA, Architecture, DevOps, and Security to deliver high-quality software.

You will also help lead our agentic-first approach to software development—using AI and coding agents to increase engineering leverage while maintaining strong standards for architecture, security, quality, and reliability.

What You'll Do

Team & Delivery Leadership

  • Lead and develop a Scrum team of approximately 4–7 engineers.
  • Conduct regular 1:1s, provide coaching and feedback, and support career development.
  • Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and promote effective Agile practices.
  • Partner with Product and QA to refine work, define acceptance criteria, and align delivery with priorities.
  • Manage team capacity, commitments, risks, dependencies, and release...

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