Lead Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Lead Software Engineer (technical leadership, hands-on coding)

• Work model: US Remote (preferred: Oregon Remote)

Description

Lead and improve an established software product as a hands-on engineer. You will own architectural decisions, design direction, and a medium-term technical roadmap for defined areas while writing and reviewing code. The role emphasizes technical leadership through engineering execution, stakeholder communication, quality/reliability, operational readiness for a major launch, and establishing agentic engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve application code using C# and .NET, plus TypeScript and React

• Review code and provide constructive feedback to support maintainable implementations and consistent patterns

• Own architecture and design direction for product areas; translate direction into implementation tickets and organize dependencies, sequencing, and execution work

• Make final technical recommendations within your ownership area and build consensus on implementation choices

• Own and evolve the medium-term technical roadmap, sequencing architectural improvements to balance current needs with long-term maintainability, reliability, and performance

• Anticipate technical dependencies and delivery risks; raise them early and lead practical responses with stakeholders and technical leadership

• Communicate engineering progress, technical needs, limitations, and implementation tradeoffs proactively

• Own production readiness and operational health for a 2027 launch and ongoing operations (reliability, performance, observability, deployment pipelines, operational documentation, issue resolution, long-term support outcomes)

• Define and lead agentic engineering practices—standards and decision criteria for how AI tools support design, implementation, code review, testing, and maintainable delivery

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience including architecture ownership, technical leadership responsibilities, and continued hands-on contribution to a production codebase

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain frontend application code using TypeScript and React

• Experience leading day-to-day engineering execution while remaining an active contributor (organizing implementation work, managing technical dependencies, code review)

• Experience owning architecture, design direction, and technical strategy for a defined solution area, including making final technical recommendations and translating direction into actionable implementation plans and tickets

• Demonstrated experience using agentic coding tools in day-to-day development, including sound judgment about where they add value and ability to prompt/direct them toward maintainable results

• Experience owning quality without a dedicated QA team—writing automated tests, defining test strategy, and verifying your and others’ work before release

• Clear, proactive communication with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders

• Collaborative mindset to build shared understanding and timely technical decisions, including when consensus cannot be fully reached

Benefits

Pay range (full-time): $119,323.00 - $202,850.00