Lead Software Developer

Role Description

At RMS, our people build scalable technology for the hospitality industry worldwide. We are in a high-growth, high-impact phase, applying data and AI to how we design, build, and evolve our SaaS platform. We are building for scale, speed, and long-term innovation. At RMS, every person is empowered to own their space, challenge the status quo, and make a meaningful impact.

Your Impact:

• Set technical direction while staying close to the code.
• Lead architectural decisions, drive engineering excellence, and help shape AI-augmented development.
• Partner with product and design to balance user experience, business goals, and technical feasibility.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for quality, performance, and scalability across teams.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead architectural decisions for major features and initiatives.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the full stack, from React-driven front ends to robust back-end systems built in C# / .NET and PostgreSQL.
• Collaborate with AI agents as part of day-to-day development.
• Help evolve internal AI patterns, playbooks, and guardrails.
• Mentor and support senior and mid-level developers.
• Partner closely with product and design teams to shape solutions.
• Set and enforce high standards for code quality, testing, performance, and security.
• Lead the adoption and evolution of testing, observability, and CI/CD practices.
• Take ownership of core systems, ensuring they meet uptime, observability, and supportability standards.
• Drive continuous improvement in application and system performance.
• Evaluate and champion new technologies, frameworks, and development practices.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with C# / .NET in production environments.
• Strong experience with modern front-end frameworks, particularly React.
• Advanced proficiency in PostgreSQL.
• Comfort working with AI-assisted development workflows.
• Ability to think and communicate clearly at the level of intent, specifications, and trade-offs.
• Strong engineering judgement, including validating, testing, and taking ownership of AI-generated outputs.
• Proven ability to design, evolve, and document APIs.
• Strong experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with asynchronous messaging and distributed systems patterns.
• Familiarity with observability tools (e.g. Datadog) and practices.
• Experience influencing system architecture and engineering standards.
• A track record of mentorship, technical leadership, and lifting capability across engineering teams.

Benefits

• Remote-First, Collaboration-Ready: Support for remote-first working with occasional in-office time.
• Growth and Progression: Opportunities to expand your scope, develop new skills, and progress your career.
• Ownership and Autonomy: Trusted to own your work and make decisions.
• Work That Matters: Contribute to meaningful initiatives that shape how our platform evolves.
• AI as a First-Class Capability: Work in teams where AI is embedded into everyday engineering workflows.
• Modern Engineering Evolution: Actively evolving how software is built.
• Space to Learn and Lead: Time, support, and air cover to experiment and influence best practices.