Senior Software Engineer

*This is an in-person role at our office in Indianapolis, Indiana. We will not consider remote candidates.*JOB SUMMARYYou lead software development projects end to end scoping, technical design, delivery, and rollout while writing production code across Ruby on Rails, React, and Java. You think in service boundaries, you raise the engineering bar around you, and you have made AI-assisted development a measurable advantage for your whole team, not just for yourself.OUR STACKRuby on Rails Java React PostgreSQL Node.js Microservices Metabase REST/GraphQL APIs GCP Git CI/CD AI-assisted developmentWHAT YOU'LL DOLead software development projects end to end scoping, technical design, execution, rollout, and post-launch measurementOwn the architecture and implementation of features spanning React front ends, Rails and Java services, and PostgreSQLDefine service boundaries, API contracts, and data models across our microservice architectureServe as the team's AI-enablement lead establish the workflows, patterns, and guardrails for AI-assisted development, and teach mid-level and junior engineers to use them wellMentor mid-level and junior engineers through design reviews, pairing, and 1:1 guidanceSet coding standards, review practices, and architectural patterns across the teamDrive PostgreSQL optimization query tuning, indexing, partitioning, connection pooling, replicationOwn technical risk assessment and mitigation for major feature releasesChampion observability logging, alerting, and monitoring best practices in GCPCollaborate with engineering leadership on roadmap planning and capacity estimationEvaluate and introduce new tools, libraries, and approaches with disciplined rigorParticipate in the on-call rotation and lead incident responseWHAT YOU BRING TECHNICAL (ALL REQUIRED)6+ years building and shipping production software, including 2+ years as the technical owner of projects or a teamA proven track record leading software development projects end to end scoping, design, delivery, rollout, and accountability for the outcome. Be ready to walk us through two projects you led.Ruby on Rails in production you have owned Rails services and their data models, not just contributed tickets to themReact in production component architecture, hooks, state management, and front-end testing. TypeScript strongly preferred.Java in production modern Java with Spring or an equivalent framework, plus the build and test tooling around itMicroservice frameworks and distributed systems service decomposition, inter-service communication, caching, queuing, and consistency trade-offs. Strangler Fig migrations a major plus.A proven record of using AI/LLM development tools to increase throughput and of teaching others to do the same. Come prepared to describe your workflow, what you measured, and how your team's output changed, not just your own.Sound judgment about AI-generated code you can tell when it is wrong, when it introduces a security or performance problem, and when to throw it out entirelyStrong PostgreSQL engineering performance tuning, indexing, schema design, and migrations at scale; comfort with analytics and reporting pipelines (Metabase or similar)Strong API design REST and GraphQL, versioning, and backward compatibility; production Node.js experienceHands-on GCP or equivalent cloud experience (IAM, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery), containerized services, and ownership of CI/CD pipelinesAutomated testing discipline and security-conscious engineering OWASP, auth/authz patterns, and PCI DSS or comparable regulated-data experienceWHAT YOU BRING BEYOND THE CODELeads through influence engineers look to you for patterns, not just answersCoaches deliberately you measure your impact partly by how much better the engineers around you getExecutive presence in technical conversations you hold your own with product, design, and business stakeholdersConstructive and direct you give hard feedback kindly and receive it professionallyStrategic thinker who balances long-term architecture with short-term delivery pressureVisible culture carrier you model the engineering values you want the team to haveNICE TO HAVEExperience leading a team through a platform migration or re-architecture, especially monolith to microservicesExperience introducing AI tooling at an organization standards, guardrails, or a formal enablement programExperience in vertical SaaS or sports/fitness techContributions to technical strategy or engineering hiringExperience with payments or other regulated data domainsHOW WE'LL EVALUATEA project-leadership deep dive on something you owned end to end how you scoped it, what went wrong, and what you decidedA practical working session with AI tools allowed and encouraged we care whether the result is correct and whether you can defend every line of itA system design conversation on service boundaries, API contracts, and data modelingA short session on how you would raise this team's AI-assisted throughput in your first 90 days
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