Lead Engineer/Manager
$160,000–$190,000 year
On-siteBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$160,000–$190,000 yearSenior Level
Full TimeSenior Level
Job Summary
Own core platform areas including frontend experience optimization, scalable 3rd party integrations, and real-time analytics pipelines processing billions of events. Lead technical architecture and code quality through reviews, mentorship, and hands-on development across Python, React, and AWS infrastructure. Drive feature ownership for customers reaching 100 million users while advancing team skills and breaking technical obstacles. Contribute as a subject matter expert in distributed systems, data pipelines, and machine learning to enable real-time segmentation and advanced analytics.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building products
- Experience building & scaling complex distributed systems
- Experience solving problems in sustainable ways
- Experience balancing pragmatic development with ideal architecture
- Experience breaking through technical obstacles
- Experience leading teams through crises
- Experience working side by side with teams in the trenches
- Strong and opinionated experience with various technologies
- Ability to pick the right tool for any job
- Experience digging into performance and scalability issues
- Experience driving breakthrough solutions for slow loading UIs
- Experience solving database query timeouts
- Experience solving queue draining issues
- Experience shipping code early & often in an agile fashion
- Experience pairing with product management
- Experience soliciting feedback from end users
- Experience working on small, autonomous agile teams
- Ownership of features
- Collaboration with everyone to produce the right solution
- Proficiency in Python
- Proficiency in Django
- Proficiency in Celery
- Proficiency in MySQL
- Proficiency in Cassandra
- Proficiency in RabbitMQ
- Proficiency in Redis
- Proficiency in HTML
- Proficiency in JavaScript
- Proficiency in LESS
- Proficiency in Backbone.js
- Proficiency in React
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Aurora, etc.)
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with Ansible
- Experience with Packer
- Experience with other DevOps tools
Desired Qualifications
- Experience managing team members
- People management skills and responsibilities
- Progress on a technical leadership track
- Experience with frontend web development
- Experience with user experience
- Experience with machine learning
- Experience with massively parallelized data pipelines
- Expertise in multiple stack areas
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