Lead Software Engineer

About us

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

About the role

We need another Lead Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Responsibilities

• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.

Preferred qualifications

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Pay and benefits

$210,000 to $260,000 a year

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Gym membership reimbursement.
• Cell phone reimbursement.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If this sounds like a fit, apply with a resume. A cover letter is optional.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Keelward Corp..