Software Engineering Team Lead at Honeycomb Insurance
Chicago, IL
$170,000–$190,000from the description
Jul 12, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on leadership role for someone who splits time between managing and mentoring a full-stack engineering team and actively writing code. The position involves driving technical direction, conducting code reviews, championing agentic coding practices, and working across the stack with Node.js and various SQL and NoSQL databases. Suits an experienced engineer who has already led a software team and wants to stay close to the codebase.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
This role sits at the boundary between people management (11-3021) and hands-on senior IC work (15-1252). The posting explicitly includes recruiting, leading, and mentoring a team of full-stack developers — classic management duties — but also emphasizes active coding and technical contribution. 11-3021 was chosen as primary because team-building and people leadership are listed first and appear to be the defining accountability; 15-1252 is a strong runner-up given the heavy hands-on coding expectation.
The title 'Full-Stack Team Lead' carries no standard seniority level word, so advertised seniority is unspecified. The 2-year team-lead experience requirement and 5+ years of hands-on coding support a Senior classification.
The overall years minimum of 5 reflects the 5+ years of hands-on coding requirement, which is the higher of the two stated experience gates (the other being 2+ years leading a team).
Location is not stated in the posting; CBSA and state fields are left blank. The compensation range ($170,000–$190,000/year) is consistent with a US-based role.
SQL, NoSQL, and BigQuery are listed as a group of interchangeable database knowledge areas; MongoDB and Elasticsearch are cited as examples within that group. These have been captured as a single required database skill with alternatives, plus MongoDB (with Elasticsearch as an alternative) to reflect the named examples.
Agentic coding adoption is mentioned as a responsibility but names no specific tool or platform, so it is not emitted as a skill.
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