Lead Software Engineer

Meadowhaven HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. More than 350 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Role overview

We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Remote within Poland. The team meets in Warsaw once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in.

Responsibilities

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

What you need

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.

Preferred

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Pay: PLN 27,000 - PLN 36,000 monthly

Benefits

• Private medical care.
• Extra annual leave days.
• Cafeteria benefit system.

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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