Lead Full Stack Engineer, Platform
Ovative Group1 day ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Make technical decisions for the Platform team and set engineering standards adopted across the organization.
- Own the GCP environment, Cloud Run services, GKE clusters, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Build reusable CI/CD templates, standard environments, monitoring, alerting, and operational runbooks.
- Operate Kubernetes clusters, including capacity planning, upgrades, maintenance, and reliability practices.
- Own the platform gateway and authorization services and participate in on-call and incident response.
- Develop Java/Spring Boot backend services and React front-end applications, including complex technical work.
- Maintain frameworks and dependencies, support SOC2 evidence readiness, and coordinate with IT and Infosec.
- Mentor engineers, conduct technical interviews, and influence full-stack engineering practices.
- Translate business goals into technical plans and promote secure, high-quality AI-assisted development.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building web applications, including setting technical direction for other engineers.
- Deep experience with Java and Spring Boot, including design patterns and data structures.
- Strong front-end experience with React and TypeScript.
- Experience with relational databases and microservice architecture.
- Production experience running Kubernetes, ideally GKE.
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform across a major cloud platform.
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for multiple teams.
- Experience building monitoring and alerting that identifies meaningful operational issues.
- Working knowledge of authentication and authorization technologies such as OAuth/OIDC and Entra.
- Experience with testing practices spanning unit tests through smoke tests.
- A record of getting teams to adopt technical standards and explaining their rationale effectively.
- Experience converting business objectives from product and non-technical partners into technical plans.
- Preferred experience managing vulnerabilities and framework upgrades in a SOC2 environment.
- Preferred familiarity with Databricks, Dagster, internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, agentic AI guardrails, and digital marketing, analytics, or big data.
Benefits
- Hybrid work from the Minneapolis, Chicago, or New York office on set days each week, with remote work available on other days.
- Frequent paid travel to Minneapolis headquarters for company and team events and in-person collaboration.
- Generous paid vacation policy.
- 401(k) match program.
- Health insurance options including same-sex partners.
- Family formation benefits, including fertility, pregnancy, and parenting reimbursement options.
- Monthly mobile phone and data-plan stipend.
- Sabbatical program.
- Charitable giving through paid time and financial matching.
- Access to office spaces in Minneapolis, New York City, and Chicago.
- Inclusive workplace policies and reasonable accommodations.
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