Full-Stack Team Lead (Remote)

About the Role

Trellis is seeking a highly motivated and execution-focused Full-Stack Team Lead to drive the development of critical, user-facing products on their legal research platform. This role is a hybrid hands-on and leadership position, with approximately 70% dedicated to coding and 30% to team leadership, issue triage, and people management. You will collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to transform complex legal datasets into intuitive products and analytics, guiding engineers and fostering a focused, productive environment.

What You'll Do

• Lead and directly contribute to full-stack product development, encompassing back-end services, APIs, and front-end experiences.
• Build scalable features utilizing large datasets to present complex legal information in clear, user-friendly product interfaces.
• Partner with Product and Design to translate requirements into robust and well-executed applications.
• Triage technical issues, bugs, and product requests, helping the team prioritize effectively.
• Manage and support engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, coaching, and project guidance.
• Collaborate with back-end, data science, and R&D engineers on data initiatives, system enhancements, and product launches.
• Provide technical leadership, assist in defining implementation plans, review approaches, and uphold strong engineering standards.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience with a proven track record in shipping production software.
• Experience leading engineers through complex projects (tech lead, engineering manager, or hands-on team lead).
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with a Python web framework; Django experience is a plus.
• Solid understanding of API architecture, front-end JavaScript frameworks, and server-rendered/front-end template development.
• Ability to translate product and design requirements into clean, scalable, and maintainable applications.
• Excellent judgment in balancing technical quality, product needs, team capacity, and delivery timelines.
• Comfortable managing both technical execution and people leadership in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with AWS, Linux, Celery, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar infrastructure and data-processing tools.
• Experience with frontend libraries such as Vue JS, Vike for SSR, JQuery, and Typescript.
• Experience working with large-scale datasets, search products, analytics tools, or data-heavy applications.
• Prior experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment.
• Familiarity with legal tech, public records, court data, or complex data domains.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Full Medical, dental, and vision coverage (premiums covered for you and your family)
• 401k with full match up to the state limit
• Work from anywhere, with willingness to travel for sales meetings and retreats
• Flexible vacation policy

About Trellis

Trellis is the largest legal research platform for state trial courts, offering comprehensive coverage of filings, rulings, motions, and outcomes across the U.S. By combining large-scale data infrastructure with AI-powered analysis, Trellis makes trial court research accessible and insightful for legal professionals. Our tools help attorneys analyze judge tendencies, evaluate opposing counsel, find experts, and develop data-backed case strategies, enabling them to assess risk earlier and operate more efficiently.

Trellis is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage candidates whose experience doesn't align perfectly but who are excited about the role to apply.