Lead Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

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

• Guide architectural decisions and safeguard the long-term coherence, security, reliability, observability, and maintainability of squad solutions.

• Accept user stories and story-point estimates, facilitate delivery decisions, eliminate obstacles, and coordinate dependencies.

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

• Define API and service contracts, versioning, integration tests, and ownership of dependencies across domain boundaries.

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

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

• Contribute to squad OKRs and quarterly assessments focusing on product value, delivery health, and quality.

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

• Work closely with Business Analysts, 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.

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

• Strong comprehension of architecture, domain boundaries, API design, data integrity, security, and observability.

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

• Experience working within Agile product teams, translating business needs into actionable technical solutions.

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

• Professional proficiency in English and the ability to collaborate with internationally distributed colleagues.

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

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

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

• Preferred: Knowledge 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.

• An open and supportive culture centered on teamwork, trust, and accountability.

• Work with a globally recognized and stable organization.

• Contribute to digital products utilized across international supply chains and regulatory contexts.