Lead Software Development Engineer, Full Stack

5 days ago

Base Salary

$190k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

Manage, mentor, and lead a small team of software engineers.
Write production-grade backend services, pipelines, and APIs from prototype through delivery.
Lead system design for ingestion pipelines, entity resolution, enrichment workflows, and search indexing strategies.
Own architecture decisions, code review, performance, reliability, observability, and technical quality.
Own services, applications, and related infrastructure in production, including their stability, reliability, and performance.
Collaborate with engineering management, product, and partner teams on requirements and technical direction.
Drive down technical debt and establish best practices for software development, microservices, and DevOps.
Own feature and release estimates, resource allocation, work distribution, and delivery against sprint and release goals.
Ensure releases and features meet engineering architecture, quality, and reliability standards.
Use cloud technology to create robust and scalable software systems.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems.
7+ years of backend software engineering experience, predominantly in Java on production systems at scale.
5+ years of cloud infrastructure experience, with GCP preferred and AWS acceptable.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.
Must be able to work onsite in Seattle.
Preferred qualifications include technical leadership in a small, high-ownership team; distributed data pipelines and streaming systems such as Kafka; Elasticsearch or comparable search/indexing platforms; PostgreSQL or relational database expertise; large-scale ingestion, transformation, enrichment, entity resolution, deduplication, or data quality systems; Docker and Kubernetes; distributed systems, data modeling, API design, and fault tolerance; and experience using GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent.
Preferred object-oriented design experience includes Domain-Driven Design, service-oriented architectures, distributed systems, testing, CI/CD, and Agile.

Comprehensive health benefits, medical wellness incentives, and short-term disability, long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance.
Paid sabbatical after four years, paid family and paternity leave, annual educational stipend, tuition reimbursement eligibility, and CFA exam stipend.
Training programs, employee assistance program, and vacation, sick, and volunteer days.
Matching gifts, employee resource groups, subsidized emergency childcare, Dependent Care FSA, company events, referral bonuses, and quarterly team-building events.
401(k) match, shared ownership employee stock program, and monthly transportation stipend.
Expected to work onsite in the Seattle office five days per week; limited corporate travel may be required.

1,001-5,000 employees