Full Stack Tech Lead - Senior

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mill is a waste prevention technology company reimagining what it means to eliminate waste, starting with food. We build smart systems and infrastructure for homes, businesses, and municipalities that transform food scraps from landfill-bound waste into valuable resources, including chicken feed. Tens of thousands of Mill’s residential food recyclers are already helping households divert millions of pounds of food scraps every year, paving the way for our upcoming launch of Mill Commercial—the industry’s first end-to-end solution for managing, understanding, and preventing food waste in commercial environments (e.g. grocery, restaurants, food services). At Mill, we are passionate about building easy-to-use, beautifully designed technologies that keep food in the food system and out of landfills.</span></p></div><h2><strong>Job Summary</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Full Stack Tech Lead to join our engineering team. This is an individual contributor technical leadership role reporting to the Director of Software Engineering. You will drive the technical direction of your project area, write high-quality code across the stack, and act as the primary technical partner to product management, while mentoring engineers around you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We've moved away from a frontend/backend split at Mill: every engineer here works full stack, typically leaning toward one side based on strength and interest, and teams are organized around projects rather than layers of the stack. You'll likely anchor on a given project for a sustained stretch — enough to build real depth and avoid constant context-switching — with real opportunities to rotate onto new projects and parts of the codebase over time.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI-assisted development is core to how we build software, not a peripheral tool. We expect fluency with tools like Claude Code as part of your daily workflow, and as a senior level engineer, a role in raising the bar for how the team uses them.</span></p> <h2><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h2> <p><strong>Technical Leadership</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead the technical design and execution of full-stack web applications, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical standards</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Architect and implement scalable, secure, and efficient full-stack solutions</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and tools — including AI-assisted development tooling — to improve team productivity and code quality</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Own estimates and technical delivery plans for your project area, and surface risks early</span></li> </ol> <p><strong>Development and Implementation</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Craft elegant, documented, and sustainable code spanning our full web stack, remaining ready to provide support for our native mobile environment when required</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Develop and optimize APIs, databases, and user interfaces</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use AI-assisted development tools fluently as a standard part of how you write, review, and ship code</span></li> </ol> <p><strong>Team Collaboration & Product Partnership</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high coding standards</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Act as the primary technical partner to product managers on your project — informing scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs — even though roadmap ownership sits with the PM</span></li> </ol> <p><strong>Quality Assurance</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Champion best practices in testing, CI/CD, and deployment</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, ensuring minimal downtime and disruption</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monitor and optimize application performance</span></li> </ol> <h2><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">6+ years of professional experience in software development with a focus on full-stack development</span></li> <li style="font-weight:…