Lead Software Engineer - Contract to Hire - Remote (Southern CA)

• You will be accountable for working in a fast-paced environment and collaborating with engineers across multiple teams.
• You will architect and build highly scalable, modular solutions that solve complex business needs while keeping the user experience front and center — with direct experience owning systems at 1M+ customer scale.
• You will lead, manage, and inspire engineers to deliver projects with high quality standards.
• You will collaborate with Product, Design, PMO, and Business stakeholders to translate business needs into working software.
• This position may require occasional work outside standard business hours and participation in an on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support.

• Lead a team of full-stack engineers of mixed levels and skill sets
• Own application architecture decisions with a proven lens for high-volume, high-availability systems serving large customer bases
• Drive development work across globally distributed software teams
• Provide technical guidance including architecture and design decisions, code reviews, and hands-on problem-solving — particularly around scalability bottlenecks, load patterns, and system resilience
• Own the full development and deployment cycle for your team's software and products
• Define and enforce infrastructure scaling strategies, including horizontal/vertical scaling, caching, database optimization, and traffic management
• Mentor and grow developers through technical leadership and coaching
• Organize, prioritize, and coordinate team efforts, reporting progress to stakeholders and management
• Engage cross-functional stakeholders (UX, Design, Product, PMO) to gather requirements and implement short-to-mid-term product strategies
• Make technical recommendations that extend beyond your immediate team
• Debug and triage production application issues, often across systems you didn't build
• Automate testing, deployments, performance monitoring, and recovery processes
• Organize and oversee production releases

• 6+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer with a strong backend focus, including at least 2 years in a lead or principal engineering role
• Demonstrated experience designing and leading application architecture for systems serving a minimum of 1 million customers — candidates must be able to speak to specific systems, scale metrics, and architectural decisions made
• Proven experience scaling applications from an infrastructure standpoint, including auto-scaling, load balancing, CDN strategy, caching layers (e.g. Redis/Memcached), and database performance at scale
• Experience operating and owning production systems under high-traffic, high-availability requirements (e.g. 99.9%+ SLA)
• Experience building applications that are gracefully degradable and fault-tolerant under load
• Experience working in a distributed systems environment with micro-frontends and microservices
• Experience with AWS or another major Cloud Provider, including infrastructure-level services (e.g. EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, or equivalents)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or another container orchestration framework
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
• Experience working with React, Next.js, GraphQL, and CSS
• Backend engineering experience, preferably in Java
• Expert-level knowledge of frontend design patterns
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with legacy application modernization and migrations is a plus
• Experience working with remote or globally distributed teams is a plus
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring engineers and delegating effectively across mixed-skill teams

Our benefits package includes: 

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• …and much more!

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