Lead Software Engineer

• Technical • Technical • 7+ years full-stack/systems development, 3+ years leadership • Strong Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and Typescript ecosystem knowledge • Experience designing and scaling REST/GraphQL APIs serving millions of requests • Understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare or Azure) • Proven ability to optimize backend performance, caching strategies, and database design • Experience with containerization, virtualization, and sandboxing concepts • Knowledge of load balancing, rate limiting, and designing for high availability • Experience with developer tooling, build systems, and runtime optimization • Track record of architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability • Daily user of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) • Experience building AI-integrated applications and platform features • Leadership • Leadership • Performance reviews, career development, and difficult conversations • Growing engineers to senior/staff+ levels • Hiring backend/platform engineers • Building remote team culture • Coaching mindset with a balance of individual and business needs • Experience designing scalable, performant runtime systems • Strong architectural thinking for systems handling scale and growth • Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders • Pragmatic mindset: ship MVPs, bias toward action, match quality to business need • Business thinking: tie technical work to clear outcomes • Collaborative: knowledge sharing and unblocking others is core work • 📌 A Few Notes • You do not need a college degree to apply • You do not need to be located in the U.S. — we’re remote-friendly • You do not need to meet every qualification listed above. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.