Lead Software Engineer

Description

• Lead technical direction for the ecommerce editor, including AI generation, layout suggestions, content assistance, and personalization • Own the Editor 2.0 team's sprint output, unblocking, code review quality, and critical-path implementation • Plan sprints, break down tasks, and prioritize work • Unblock engineers on technical blockers, ambiguous requirements, and cross-team dependencies • Make technical decisions and maintain code review standards • Serve as the primary escalation point for production incidents and editor production health • Ramp and mentor team members, including their AI tool usage • Propose and build AI-powered product features for visual page and funnel building • Evaluate AI features based on real workflows and conversion impact • Write unit and integration tests • Identify edge cases and risks during planning • Use AI coding tools daily and establish effective AI-assisted development workflows • Collaborate directly with the product manager on roadmap and feature definition • Ship meaningful features to production and measure conversion impact

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience • At least 1–2 years in a lead or de facto lead capacity • Owned technical direction for a team, not just senior individual-contributor work • Hands-on experience in PHY • Hands-on experience building consumer-facing web products at scale • Experience with page builders, website/funnel editors, or similarly complex WYSIWYG/visual editing tools strongly preferred • Demonstrated track record shipping AI-powered product features • Experience working directly with a product manager on roadmap and feature definition • Comfortable being the primary escalation point for production issues • TypeScript and Node.js experience • PHP 7.4/8+ and Laravel experience • MariaDB, Redis, AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, S3), Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD experience

Benefits

• Remote work in Europe / Latin America • Growth-oriented environment • Open communication and clear goal setting • Diverse team • Opportunities to mentor and develop team members

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