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