Lead Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Bulgaria.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage accessible web applications, backend services, APIs, integrations, and data-access components.

• Provide guidance on architectural decisions while ensuring the long-term coherence, security, reliability, observability, and maintainability of the squad's solutions.

• Accept user stories and story-point estimates, facilitate delivery decisions, eliminate obstacles, and coordinate dependencies with other squads and technical teams.

• Ensure that delivered work aligns with acceptance criteria, engineering standards, and the established Definition of Done.

• Create clear API and service contracts, manage versioning, conduct integration tests, and oversee dependency ownership across domain boundaries.

• Lead code and design reviews, enhance automated testing, and advocate for secure development and practical documentation practices.

• Collaborate with DevSecOps to enhance CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, monitoring, secrets management, identity, and operational readiness.

• Contribute to squad OKRs and participate in quarterly reviews focused on product value, delivery health, and quality.

• Utilize governed AI-assisted software engineering practices to boost development speed, code quality, and consistency in delivery.

• Work closely with a designated Business Analyst, developers, Quality Assurance, DevSecOps, and business stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership of products or delivery teams.

• Strong full-stack capabilities, with expertise in modern frontend development and backend service or API development.

• Hands-on experience in designing and operating cloud-based, distributed applications.

• In-depth understanding of architecture, domain boundaries, API design, data integrity, security, and observability.

• Proficient in automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, as well as CI/CD delivery practices.

• Experience working within Agile product teams and translating business requirements into actionable technical solutions.

• Ability to make pragmatic trade-offs, communicate decisions effectively, and lead through influence.

• Professional fluency in English with confidence in collaborating with internationally distributed colleagues.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native deployment patterns.

• Preferred: Experience with TypeScript, VueJS, Node.js, .NET, SQL, REST and/or GraphQL, or similar modern technologies.

• Preferred: Knowledge of infrastructure as code, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, containers, and application monitoring.

• Preferred: Understanding of B2B SaaS, sustainability, supply chains, chemical data, assessment, or compliance platforms.

• Preferred: Experience utilizing governed AI-assisted development tools to enhance engineering productivity and quality.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the option to work remotely.

• Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development are readily available.

• Collaborate within a multinational, distributed technology organization.

• Experience an open, supportive culture founded on teamwork, trust, and accountability.