What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer position at Copado?
About Copado
Copado is the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce, revolutionizing how the world's largest organizations achieve success in their Salesforce deployments. Our mission is to accelerate the Salesforce development lifecycle, support digital transformation, and deliver unparalleled value to our customers. We continuously innovate, ensuring our platform meets the evolving needs of Salesforce developers and operations professionals.
What You’ll Do
Copado is the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce, revolutionizing how the world's largest organizations achieve success in their Salesforce deployments. Our mission is to accelerate the Salesforce development lifecycle, support digital transformation, and deliver unparalleled value to our customers. We continuously innovate, ensuring our platform meets the evolving needs of Salesforce developers and operations professionals.
What You’ll Do
- Architectural Transformation: Lead the technical "forking" and integration of the Essentials CI/CD tool into the CRT stack to enable our AgentOps vision.
- Backend & API Development: Design and implement robust REST and GraphQL API layers using Java (Spring Boot) and Python to expose core functionality to the broader Agentia™ platform.
- UI Modernization: Drive the transition of legacy components to a modern Angular 19 modular architecture, ensuring consistency with the unified Copado Design System.
- AI Innovation: Integrate Copado’s AI platform and agents into core workflows to create autonomous "agentic" user journeys and measurable productivity gains.
- Cloud Orchestration: Develop and optimize scalable backend workflows using AWS Step Functions and manage containerized microservices with Kubernetes.
- Performance Optimization: Enhance system scalability by adopting lazy loading, caching, and efficient data binding to reduce page load times and API latency.
- Observability: Implement robust logging, error tracking, and performance metrics to ensure platform resilience and faster resolution of incidents.
- Full-Stack Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Java (Spring Boot), Python, Angular (v19 ), and TypeScript.
- Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS services, general cloud management, and container orchestration.
- API Design: A deep understanding of secure data rendering, authentication, and RESTful/GraphQL API patterns.
- Modern DevOps: Advanced knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern build tools like Webpack, Vite, or Nx.
- Database Management: Proficiency in PostgreSQL (SQL/NoSQL) and optimizing data throughput.
- AI-Driven Mindset: A proactive approach to using AI tools (like Cursor, Claude, or Copilot) to enhance code quality and speed.
- Ownership: A strong bias for action and the ability to drive complex architectural solutions with urgency.
- Knowledge of Salesforce (LWC/Visualforce).
- Experience with accessibility standards (WCAG).
- Advanced security and DevOps practices.