Lead Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to shape the platforms, tools, and services that enable teams to build and deliver software more effectively. This full-stack role combines backend and frontend development with DevOps, automation, and internal platform engineering. You will improve developer experience, streamline software delivery, and strengthen the reliability, security, and maintainability of production systems. Working closely with product, platform, and application engineering teams, you will influence technical direction and champion scalable engineering practices. You will also mentor colleagues, guide platform evolution, and turn operational insights into continuous improvements. This is an opportunity to make a broad technical impact in a collaborative, distributed environment supporting access to knowledge and education.

• At least 8 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer delivering large-scale, distributed web applications.

• Strong product thinking and the ability to build engineering communities, influence technical direction, and support shared goals.

• Proven experience designing and developing scalable backend services and RESTful APIs.

• Hands-on experience building internal or user-facing web applications with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue, applying UI/UX and accessibility best practices.

• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts, automation, and software delivery pipelines, using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent technologies.

• Practical experience contributing to or operating internal developer platforms, engineering enablement tools, or shared services.

• Strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and EKS.

• Experience deploying applications with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Hands-on knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application and infrastructure performance across the stack.

• Comfort working in Agile, cross-functional, distributed, or self-directed teams.

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, architectural decisions, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A commitment to continuous improvement and building clear, reliable, maintainable systems. Deep expertise in every listed technology is not expected, and onboarding, mentorship, and ongoing learning support are available.

• Ability to work and reside within the continental United States.