Lead/Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

Are you passionate about designing and developing scalable systems and mentoring engineering teams to success? We’re looking for Lead and Staff Software Engineers to set the technical direction for a critical product area, influence architectural decisions, and lead through hands-on expertise. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the long-term vision of our platforms while empowering engineers to grow and deliver their best work.

A Day in the Life:

• Every day brings a new opportunity to contribute and/or lead with influence and drive impact across teams.
• You’ll be solving complex architectural challenges, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with senior leaders to guide the direction of our systems.
• Your leadership will help ensure we build sustainable, high-performing systems.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Set or contribute towards architectural direction and evolve systems to support long-term scalability and performance.
• Identify and implement tools, frameworks, and practices that improve team productivity.
• Anticipate product-level technical issues and make proactive design decisions.
• Break down complex projects into maintainable systems for teams to build confidently.
• Lead by example with high-quality, hands-on technical contributions.
• Mentor engineers on leadership, strategy, and collaboration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to resolve technical challenges.
• Influence and drive technical decisions across teams and stakeholders.
• Stay connected with company-wide initiatives to anticipate and remove blockers.
• Contribute to team planning and provide guidance on project prioritization.

The Tech:

• Across our team we work in a mixture of Ruby (with Sorbet), C#, F#, Java, Elm, and React (TypeScript).
• We love curious individuals who believe they can always improve, and we know that good developers are capable of picking up new languages and tools.
• Engineers are provided a top of the line MacBook to do their work, and you’ll have access to all the necessary tooling to do the non-coding parts of your job (Zoom, Slack, etc.).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience - STRONG preference in Ruby on Rails.
• Proven full stack experience with one or more technology stacks.
• Strong background in system design, architecture, and scalable software.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Skilled at identifying customer needs and delivering technical solutions.
• Comfortable reviewing and improving codebases.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
• Excellent collaboration and influence skills across diverse teams.

Requirements

• Bonus points if you have:
• Experience running a consulting company.
• Background in Machine Learning.
• Worked with functional languages like Elm, Haskell, OCaml, Elixir, or F#.
• Logistics industry experience.

Benefits

• We offer Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, 401k and much more.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here may be encountered while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and telephone.
• Regular, predictable attendance is required.

Compensation Range

• Annual Salary: $173,464.00 - $281,010.00
• Location: Dallas, TX or Remote U.S. excluding the following states: AK, DE, RI, VT, WY

Apply now and take the next step in your career. We’re excited to meet you!