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Remote Engineering Team Lead jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams in sectors like software, fintech, and cloud infrastructure. Employers hiring remotely right now include n8n, Yelp, and Rubrik. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week
Overview:
The Engineering Team Lead for M&T Bank’s Digital Sales & Onboarding (DSO) Platform manages a team of 8–9 software engineers responsible for the digital journeys customers use to open bank accounts, open credit cards, and apply for loans. This role blends people leadership, technical ownership, and platform modernization, ensuring the team delivers scalable, resilient, and high‑quality digital experiences. The Team Lead provides day‑to‑day direction for engineering activities, oversees application development and support, manages client and stakeholder expectations, and ensures alignment with enterprise engineering standards. The role also includes oversight of contractor teams supporting business‑funded initiatives, ensuring consistency in architecture, code quality, and delivery practices. This position is designed to drive strong team health, clear technical direction, and effective execution while minimizing fragmentation across teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers ranging from early‑career to senior levels, fostering a culture of growth, accountability, and engineering excellence.
- Provide coaching, performance management, staffing planning, and career development for direct reports.
- Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Build rapport across teams and maintain strong communication and cooperation within the organization.
Governance, Risk & Controls
- Ensure adherence to all department and technology standards, procedures, and documentation requirements.
- Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls.
- Implement and maintain internal controls to mitigate risk; escalate issues as appropriate.
- Ensure timely implementation of internal/external audit points and regulatory requirements.
Delivery & Execution
- Oversee application development, testing support, infrastructure coordination, and project management activities.
- Manage the project queue for the DSO Platform, ensuring timely completion of schedules and alignment with business priorities.
- Provide technical oversight for contractor teams, ensuring adherence to engineering standards and architectural direction.
- Act as the connective layer between teams—driving consistency, reducing rework, and ensuring smooth transitions of work.
Technical Strategy & Platform Ownership
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for the DSO Platform with a focus on modernization, scalability, and resilience. Drive major engineering initiatives, including: Migrating Angular and .NET applications to Azure, Adopting and operationalizing enterprise engineering standards, Improving vulnerability management and platform stability, and Enabling feature development through platform enhancements (e.g., data model evolution, third‑party integrations)
- Monitor industry technology trends and vendor solutions; recommend innovations that anticipate future business needs.
Education and Experience Required:
- A combined minimum of 9 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ engineering and/or architecture experience and 3 years leadership experience
- Experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical initiatives.
- Strong understanding of the system development life cycle.
- Proficiency with project management tools and productivity applications.
- Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, communication, and decision‑making skills.
- Familiarity with application development platforms, cloud technologies, and modern engineering practices.
- Ability to encourage teamwork and serve as a role model for others.
- Understanding of technical, business, and operational impacts of projects.
Education and Experience Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 10 years’ technology management or large program leadership experience
- Extensive application and product knowledge experience with skills, application(s) and functions of technology area led
- Subject Matter Expert understanding of applications supported with an advanced knowledge of interfacing/integrated applications
- Strong mentoring and leadership capabilities.
- Understanding of the Bank’s application framework, business plan, and strategic objectives.
- Self‑motivated with the ability to motivate others.
- Familiarity with banking terminology and business processes.
#LI-JB3 #Hybrid
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.Location
Buffalo, New York, United States of AmericaThis role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week
Overview:
The Engineering Team Lead for M&T Bank’s Digital Sales & Onboarding (DSO) Platform manages a team of 8–9 software engineers responsible for the digital journeys customers use to open bank accounts, open credit cards, and apply for loans. This role blends people leadership, technical ownership, and platform modernization, ensuring the team delivers scalable, resilient, and high‑quality digital experiences. The Team Lead provides day‑to‑day direction for engineering activities, oversees application development and support, manages client and stakeholder expectations, and ensures alignment with enterprise engineering standards. The role also includes oversight of contractor teams supporting business‑funded initiatives, ensuring consistency in architecture, code quality, and delivery practices. This position is designed to drive strong team health, clear technical direction, and effective execution while minimizing fragmentation across teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers ranging from early‑career to senior levels, fostering a culture of growth, accountability, and engineering excellence.
- Provide coaching, performance management, staffing planning, and career development for direct reports.
- Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Build rapport across teams and maintain strong communication and cooperation within the organization.
Governance, Risk & Controls
- Ensure adherence to all department and technology standards, procedures, and documentation requirements.
- Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls.
- Implement and maintain internal controls to mitigate risk; escalate issues as appropriate.
- Ensure timely implementation of internal/external audit points and regulatory requirements.
Delivery & Execution
- Oversee application development, testing support, infrastructure coordination, and project management activities.
- Manage the project queue for the DSO Platform, ensuring timely completion of schedules and alignment with business priorities.
- Provide technical oversight for contractor teams, ensuring adherence to engineering standards and architectural direction.
- Act as the connective layer between teams—driving consistency, reducing rework, and ensuring smooth transitions of work.
Technical Strategy & Platform Ownership
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for the DSO Platform with a focus on modernization, scalability, and resilience. Drive major engineering initiatives, including: Migrating Angular and .NET applications to Azure, Adopting and operationalizing enterprise engineering standards, Improving vulnerability management and platform stability, and Enabling feature development through platform enhancements (e.g., data model evolution, third‑party integrations)
- Monitor industry technology trends and vendor solutions; recommend innovations that anticipate future business needs.
Education and Experience Required:
- A combined minimum of 9 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ engineering and/or architecture experience and 3 years leadership experience
- Experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical initiatives.
- Strong understanding of the system development life cycle.
- Proficiency with project management tools and productivity applications.
- Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, communication, and decision‑making skills.
- Familiarity with application development platforms, cloud technologies, and modern engineering practices.
- Ability to encourage teamwork and serve as a role model for others.
- Understanding of technical, business, and operational impacts of projects.
Education and Experience Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 10 years’ technology management or large program leadership experience
- Extensive application and product knowledge experience with skills, application(s) and functions of technology area led
- Subject Matter Expert understanding of applications supported with an advanced knowledge of interfacing/integrated applications
- Strong mentoring and leadership capabilities.
- Understanding of the Bank’s application framework, business plan, and strategic objectives.
- Self‑motivated with the ability to motivate others.
- Familiarity with banking terminology and business processes.
#LI-JB3 #Hybrid
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.Location
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Who's Hiring
- n8n7N
- Yelp1
- Rubrik1
- Travefy1
- M&T Bank1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software5
- Banking & Financial Services1
- Consulting & Professional Services1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote engineering team lead jobs.
- 5 or more years of software engineering experience with at least 2 in a lead role
- Proven experience mentoring engineers and conducting regular one-on-ones
- Proficiency in at least one primary programming language such as Python, Java, or Go
- Experience running agile or scrum ceremonies including sprint planning and retrospectives
- Ability to define technical roadmaps and translate business requirements into engineering tasks
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Engineering Team Lead Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote engineering team lead openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and team size and apply directly without sorting through mixed location results.
Prove async leadership in your application materials
Remote hiring managers look for evidence that you can lead without constant synchronous touchpoints. Reference specific examples of written technical decisions, async code review processes you set up, or documentation you created to keep distributed engineers aligned.
Highlight cross-timezone delivery in your resume
Employers running distributed teams want leads who have shipped projects with engineers in multiple time zones. Call out the regions your team covered, how you coordinated handoffs, and what you did to keep delivery on schedule without overlapping hours.
Prepare for remote-specific interview scenarios
Remote engineering team lead interviews often include scenarios about managing underperformance you can't observe in person, running effective remote retrospectives, and keeping engineers engaged on a distributed team. Rehearse answers that name the tools you use, such as Notion, Linear, or Loom, and why.
Signal remote readiness through your setup and process
Mention your home office setup, your documented engineering processes, and any experience onboarding remote engineers. Distributed teams want leads who already know how to ramp up engineers they'll never meet in person and who default to written communication over ad hoc calls.
Remote Engineering Team Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote engineering team lead job?
Target companies that already run distributed engineering teams, since they have hiring processes built around remote leads. Remote employers screen for async communication skills, written technical documentation, and the ability to unblock engineers without synchronous standups. Showing a history of mentoring engineers, driving delivery across time zones, and making decisions independently gives your application a clear edge over candidates with no remote management experience.
Which companies hire remote engineering team leads?
Remote engineering team lead roles are posted by n8n, Yelp, and Rubrik and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote-first software companies and distributed fintech, SaaS, and infrastructure teams make up the largest share of these openings.
Can you get a remote engineering team lead job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level lead roles are harder to land because employers need you to operate independently from day one. Early-career candidates break in by contributing to open-source projects with real code review responsibility, taking on informal tech lead duties at a current job, or joining smaller remote startups where lead responsibilities come earlier. Demonstrating async collaboration and written technical judgment matters more than a formal title.
Do you need a degree for remote engineering team lead jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring engineering team leads weigh demonstrated engineering output, delivery history, and the ability to grow and retain engineers far more heavily than credentials. A strong portfolio of shipped projects, evidence of technical mentorship, and measurable team results can carry an application further than a degree alone, particularly at remote-first startups and growth-stage technology companies.
Which industries hire the most remote engineering team leads?
Remote engineering team lead roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Banking & Financial Services, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Those sectors rely on distributed engineering teams where a remote team lead is essential for coordinating delivery across time zones and keeping autonomous engineers aligned.
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