Lead Software Engineer

Accountabilities

• • Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable full-stack cloud solutions supporting high-traffic web experiences and open APIs.
  • Work closely with hardware and software product teams to ensure products deliver seamless and high-quality web and cloud experiences.
  • Design and operate reliable, highly available cloud platforms, including containerized infrastructure, databases, networking, and distributed systems.
  • Develop and maintain web back ends and user interfaces while contributing directly to feature delivery.
  • Establish strong practices around testing, documentation, observability, resilience, and maintainable software architecture.
  • Evaluate the existing cloud platform architecture, identify opportunities for refactoring, and partner with product and engineering teams to plan improvements.
  • Contribute to quarterly cloud-platform roadmaps and help translate product objectives into actionable technical plans.
  • Define and evolve APIs that enable applications to interact effectively with hardware and cloud services.
  • Proactively improve code quality and test coverage while maintaining a clean, sustainable technical architecture.
  • Evaluate emerging programming languages, frameworks, development tools, and technologies and recommend adoption or migration where appropriate.
  • Lead and mentor software engineers, encouraging knowledge sharing and consistent engineering standards across teams.
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and increase engineering efficiency.
  • Help establish and promote best practices for software development, testing, documentation, and platform engineering.

  Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional experience in full-stack software engineering.
  • Strong experience designing and building scalable cloud solutions, including container orchestration, database architecture, network infrastructure, and distributed systems.
  • Proven experience developing both web back ends and web user interfaces.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and operate reliable, highly available cloud platforms.
  • Hands-on knowledge of observability practices, including logging, tracing, monitoring, and resilience engineering.
  • Experience leading a software or platform engineering team in delivering well-tested, well-documented cloud solutions.
  • Strong technical leadership skills, with the ability to guide architecture and engineering decisions while remaining hands-on.
  • Experience mentoring and developing other software engineers.
  • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT.
  • Strong commitment to continuous learning and improving software engineering practices.
  • Collaborative communication skills and the ability to work effectively with engineering, product, design, and hardware teams.
  • Familiarity with React and AWS-based, containerized application environments is valuable.

  Benefits

  • Full-time remote position within the United States.
  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
  • 10% time, or “slack day,” policy allowing one day every two weeks for learning, experimentation, training, feature exploration, or knowledge-sharing activities.
  • Continuous education stipend to support ongoing professional development and technical learning.
  • Early access to upcoming gaming hardware, including headsets, keyboards, mice, and controllers, with opportunities to test and provide feedback.
  • Employee discounts on gaming hardware.
  • Opportunity to work with passionate professionals at the intersection of gaming, technology, software, and hardware.
  • Collaborative environment that encourages mentorship, experimentation, innovation, and continuous improvement.