Lead Software Engineer

Role overview

Set technical direction and lead delivery for software products and internal tools, with a strong focus on applying AI to customer-facing products and business operations. The role combines hands-on engineering leadership, architecture decisions, and close work with teams across the organization to identify practical problems worth solving.

Responsibilities

- Take initiatives from loosely defined business needs through architecture, implementation, and production release. - Shape AI system design with engineering leadership, including work involving managed foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent patterns, evaluation, and production safeguards. - Establish effective practices for AI-assisted development, including reusable workflows, coding standards, and review controls for generated code. - Mentor engineers through pairing and code review, and turn lessons into standards the team can apply consistently. - Lead system design and code reviews, assess technical risks and costs, and contribute to build-versus-buy decisions. - Work with product and operational teams to understand their workflows and deliver software or automations tied to measurable outcomes.

Requirements

- Experience shipping end-to-end software products and translating ambiguous goals into delivered systems. - Ability to set architecture direction, make trade-offs, and guide a team through implementation. - Strong technical judgment around AI tools and features, including evaluation, cost, and risk considerations. - Experience raising engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and reusable standards. - Ability to communicate technical constraints and risks in terms of business impact, timing, and cost. - Collaborative approach to working with engineering, product, and operational stakeholders.

Benefits and work setup

- Listed annual salary range is $140,000–$160,000, depending on experience. - Benefits include health, vision, and dental insurance; a 401(k); employee stock purchase plan; paid vacation, personal days, and holidays; and disability, life, FSA, and HSA plans, subject to plan terms.