Lead Software Engineer - AppDev

As a Lead Software Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Technical leadership on the Applications Development (AppDev) team.

• Ownership of technical components of the platform including improving their operational health.

• Designing and building full-stack software including greenfield projects or features.

• Data modeling and processing at scale.

• Improving the performance and scalability of our platform.

• Pragmatic technical decision-making to ensure we're delivering high quality software as quickly as possible.

• Incremental improvements and simplifications to our platform’s architecture to improve development velocity scalability and deployment flexibility.

• Collaboratively working with QA engineers to ensure proper test coverage and high quality releases.

• Collaborating with the Product team to ensure features are delivered as expected by our customers

What we’re looking for:

• Demonstrated experience as a software engineer in a technical leadership role.

• Keen interest and experience as a product engineer with lots of customer empathy

• Working experience with Python (or a similar language with the ability to learn quickly!)

• Experience working in SAAS development environment

• Experience with web application frameworks APIs Apache Airflow and document databases

• Experience working on small fast-paced teams.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with engineers and stakeholders.

• Ability to mentor and advise less experienced engineers.

It’s a plus if you also have:

• Experience with React Typescript

• Experience with ArangoDB

• Experience working with designs in Figma

• Experience with Tilt kubernetes and local development

Success path

• In 30 days you will: make your first contributions to our platform and demonstrate a good understanding of our market and our customers

• In 60 days you will: be comfortable work with the product team engineering managers and the design team and be making significant contributions to the platform

• In 90 days you will: demonstrate a mastery of our technical stack and be able to work through new features from inception with the product team to delivery