Lead Engineer – Full Stack

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ohio, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the architecture, quality, and delivery of the Angular application along with its associated APIs/services.

• Establish and uphold coding standards, patterns, and best practices for both mobile and full-stack development.

• Promote the adoption of an A.I.-first engineering approach.

• Steer technical roadmap decisions in alignment with product objectives and timelines.

• Offer technical expertise in areas such as architecture, design, testing, implementation, and LLM integration patterns.

• Lead code review processes and perform root cause analysis for critical production challenges.

• Manage the end-to-end delivery of web features, from technical scoping to release and production monitoring.

• Decompose complex requirements into engineering tasks, milestones, and distributed team ownership.

• Identify and mitigate technical risks throughout the entire development lifecycle.

• Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release management processes.

• Establish and uphold observability and logging best practices.

• Design and implement performant, secure, and accessible solutions.

• Mentor and lead a geographically diverse team across the Americas and India.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Backend teams in accordance with Agile principles.

• Drive organizational improvement initiatives and foster a productive engineering environment.

• Engage in the hiring process through resume evaluation, technical interviews, and candidate assessments.

• Set expectations for both full-time employees and contractors.

• Ensure software quality through automated testing, alerting, and proactive production support.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 10 years of software development experience, with a minimum of 5 years dedicated to full-stack development.

• Familiarity with A.I.-first engineering and tools such as Claude, Co-Pilot, and others.

• Strong grasp of Object-Oriented Design principles.

• Ability to design both user interfaces and APIs.

• Proven experience in full-stack development, including BFF/API layers.

• Significant experience in cross-browser and cross-platform development, including mobile and responsive UI.

• Background in developing and architecting high-transaction, high-throughput systems.

• Demonstrated capability to lead distributed teams across different time zones.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities; adept at converting complex business requirements into straightforward software solutions.

• Proficient with CI/CD, Agile methodologies, and open-source technologies.

• Experience with LLM/AI-native development patterns and integrating AI-driven features into consumer products (preferred).

• Experience leading teams of 5 or more engineers across various geographies (preferred).

• Knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture and microservices (preferred).

• Background in mobile accessibility (WCAG, platform accessibility APIs) (preferred).

• Experience in fintech, consumer lending, or similarly regulated sectors (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Benefits; including Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Company Matched 401k.

• Paid Time Off.

• Paid Holidays.

• Paid Volunteer Time.

• Diversity Alliance Resource Groups.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program.

• Tuition Reimbursement.

• Charitable Gift Matching.

• Necessary Job Equipment & Services Will Be Provided.

• Competitive Compensation.