Lead Software Engineer, Platform Services

What you'll do

• Lead the architecture and design of scalable, secure, and resilient platform services.
• Drive technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape technical roadmaps aligned with business goals.
• Design and deliver high-scale distributed systems and APIs for global digital experiences.
• Champion engineering excellence through best practices in system design, testing, observability, and scalability.
• Drive innovation in Agile development, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices.
• Evaluate and adopt modern technologies and AI-assisted workflows to improve developer productivity.
• Mentor and coach engineers while fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience building and scaling large-scale, high-performance production services.
• Experience with microservices architecture, domain-driven design, and RESTful/GraphQL APIs.
• Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS (preferred), GCP, or other public cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in back-end development using JavaScript or TypeScript with runtimes like Node.js.
• Expertise in web security including JWT lifecycle management, CORS, CSP, and XSS prevention.
• Proven experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate the software development life cycle.
• Experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform, testing frameworks like Jest/Playwright, and identity protocols like OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect.