Lead Software Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead to drive technical direction and execution in a fast-paced startup environment, focusing on rapidly shipping valuable software.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction, prioritization, and decision-making for a team across multiple products and codebases.
• Drive the delivery of high-quality, performant solutions, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals.
• Own technical standards, promoting automated testing, observability, and operational excellence through code reviews and best practices.
• Address urgent customer needs by triaging and resolving support tickets, balancing immediate fixes with root cause analysis.
• Partner with Product and Design to translate customer needs into pragmatic, iterative solutions.
• Identify and manage technical risks, debt, and architectural concerns, making pragmatic trade-offs.
• Communicate scope, tradeoffs, timelines, and expectations clearly to stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with Go or Ruby on Rails, plus strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience.
• Proven ability to lead technical work across multiple systems in a startup or fast-changing environment.
• Strong product and customer intuition, with the ability to translate business needs into technical decisions.
• Track record of shipping production software that customers actively use.
• Comfortable making trade-offs to balance speed, quality, and scalability.
• Clear communicator capable of aligning engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (e.g., Bachelor/Graduate degree in Science/Computer Science/Software Engineering, IT certification) or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with PostgreSQL and GraphQL.
• Familiarity with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in a SaaS or property technology environment.