Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Odin Labs, Inc. ("Odin") is the workforce visibility and compliance platform powering the next generation of infrastructure. As demand accelerates for AI data centers, clean energy projects, and large-scale construction, Odin provides the operational backbone for real-time workforce tracking, credential verification, site access, and compliance management. We experienced more than 7x revenue growth from 2024 to 2025, and 2026 has already surpassed 2025 growth. Odin's growth is driven by rapid expansion and adoption of our software platform across complex, high-compliance construction environments. As we continue to see strong market momentum and a growth in complex construction programs, Odin is preparing for its next stage of scale.

We are hiring lead software engineers to anchor an autonomous engineering team at Odin. Each team has 2-3 engineers and takes a scoped project from technical design through development, QA, and release, with the autonomy to decide how, once we've aligned on what. As the lead on one of these teams, you are the technical owner of that project. You make the calls on how things get built, within the patterns and standards the engineering team has set, and you help raise that bar over time. You keep execution on track, and you mentor the 1-2 engineers working alongside you. You are not a people manager. You are the engineer the rest of the team looks to when a technical decision needs to get made and the one most accountable for whether the project ships well. You work as a peer to other engineering leads and partner closely with product, which scopes work and coordinates releases. Together you set the technical bar for product engineering at Odin.

Product defines what the team is building, who it's for, how we'll know it's done, and how long we have to do it. You take it from there. Partner with product during scoping to surface technical risk, push back on what isn't buildable, and make sure the team is set up to deliver. Take a scoped project from product handoff to production. Build the technical plan, slice it into vertical stories that each ship something users can see, and lead delivery within the time budget product has set. Hold the seams together so the pieces ship as a cohesive feature, not a collection of stories that technically met their acceptance criteria. Write production code across the stack. In a given week you might design a Postgres schema, build the API on top of it, wire it into the web app, and add a React Native screen that uses it. You will not be exclusively in any one of these. Make and defend architectural decisions within your team, within the patterns and standards the engineering team has set, and drive changes to those patterns with your peers when you find a better way. Own the output quality of your team and the call on when code is ready to deploy to production. You are accountable for what reaches product for release validation. Your team decides when code reaches production. Product decides when customers see the feature. Use feature flags, incremental rollouts, and other release strategies to keep these two decisions independent. Build the observability, alerting, and operational instincts to know when something's wrong before a customer tells you. Take your turn on call when something goes wrong anyway. Code that runs in production is your team's responsibility, not someone else's. Level up the engineers on your team through code review, technical writeups, and direct feedback. You raise the bar for the people around you and hold yourself to the same standard. Improve how your team works, not just what they ship. Automate what can be automated, catch problems earlier in the cycle, and build the safety nets that let the team move with confidence. Build first-hand knowledge of how Odin's customers actually work. Visit jobsites, sit with workers and security teams, watch the product in use in a guard booth or trailer. Carry that understanding into every technical tradeoff you make.

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time owning production systems end to end. Deep full stack experience in a modern TypeScript ecosystem. You are comfortable in backend services, web frontends, and mobile. You know how to design the contracts between these layers, not just write each one. Experience leading a team of engineers through delivery. You have been the person on the hook for whether a project ships well, not just the person writing the code. Comfort slicing work into vertical user-facing stories rather than horizontal layers of the stack. You have done this before and can teach it to others. Strong product instincts. You can read a project's scope, identify the parts that will be hard, and have a productive conversation about what to build and what to cut. Operational maturity. You have run systems in production, woken up to incidents, and built the observability that prevented the next one. A track record of mentoring other engineers. People who have worked with you have gotten meaningfully better at their craft as a result. Strong written and verbal communication. Your design docs, code reviews, technical write-ups, and architecture discussions bring clarity and alignment. You have depth in multiple areas, not just one, plus the range to pick up something new and ship projects others can build on. AI is part of how you work, used to accelerate your engineering rather than replace your judgment. You review and refine every output, and the code you ship is sharp and correct regardless of which tool helped write it.

Direct experience with construction tech, access control, workforce management, or other software that runs on a jobsite. Time at an early-stage startup where you helped shape engineering practices, not just follow them. Deep React Native experience. You've written native modules and supported deployments to the long tail of aging devices. Integration experience with physical systems, not just APIs, such as hardware, badge readers, access control panels, or IoT devices. Familiarity with modular monolith patterns like CQRS and DDD. Postgres experience with high-volume event data. You've tuned the kind of queries that only break under production scale, and shipped schema changes without taking hot tables offline. Prior experience with Shape Up or a similar model where teams own implementation autonomy within a fixed time budget, and scope flexes to meet the deadline rather than the deadline flexing to meet scope.

You're not expected to have experience with everything listed, but you should bring real depth in several of these and the willingness to keep growing into the rest. Kubernetes hosted on Google Cloud Postgres on Cloud SQL Node and GraphQL on the backend React on the web React Native and Expo on mobile TypeScript end to end Field hardware including badge readers, kiosks, turnstiles, and cameras Datadog for observability Mintlify for docs Figma and Claude Design GitHub, Shortcut, Slack, Notion, Google Workspace, Claude

Competitive salary package Comprehensive health insurance coverage for you and your family Flexible working hours and remote work options Generous vacation and paid time off policy We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. To be eligible for this position, you must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.