Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

This role offers the opportunity to help build and accelerate a modern cloud platform from an early stage. You will work across full-stack engineering, scalable cloud architecture, web applications, APIs, and distributed systems. The position has a direct impact on creating seamless digital experiences that connect software, cloud services, and gaming hardware. You will collaborate closely with engineers, designers, product managers, and hardware teams in a highly innovative environment. As a technical leader, you will shape architecture, promote engineering best practices, and mentor other developers. The role combines hands-on development with strategic technical decision-making and platform evolution. It is an ideal opportunity for a technology-driven engineer who enjoys solving complex problems and building high-quality products at scale.

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.