Lead Software Engineer, Opportunity Insights

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

📋 Description

• Define and enhance the architecture of scalable, distributed systems deployed on AWS.

• Design and manage microservices and data-intensive workloads operating in Kubernetes (EKS).

• Lead the technical design for systems that process and analyze large-scale datasets (high-volume, high-velocity, and high-variety data).

• Establish patterns and best practices for creating resilient, observable, and high-performance services.

• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Engineering leaders to convert business strategies into comprehensive technical roadmaps.

• Drive cross-team technical projects and shape architectural decisions beyond your immediate team.

• Optimize strategies for data storage, retrieval, and processing across both relational and NoSQL systems.

• Mentor engineers, elevate the standards for design and code quality, and lead by technical example.

• Assume full ownership of critical platform components, ensuring their long-term scalability and maintainability.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in building and scaling production-grade distributed systems.

• Strong foundation in computer science, distributed systems, and large-scale system design.

• Proven track record in architecting systems that handle large datasets (event streams, batch + real-time pipelines, high-throughput services).

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, including EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• In-depth expertise in Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized microservices architectures.

• Experience with streaming and data infrastructure technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch, and NoSQL databases (e.g., Aerospike).

• Strong proficiency in Java, Python, Ruby, or other similar object-oriented languages.

• Experience in designing APIs and service communication layers (REST, gRPC, Thrift).

• Demonstrated capability to lead technical design reviews and influence engineering direction.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities and the capacity to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience utilizing AI-powered development tools to enhance engineering productivity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Employee Equity

• Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance

• And more!!