Lead Engineer (Philippines)
Remote
Job Summary
Design scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure while leading technical design and execution of major products and features. Make architecture decisions that balance speed, scalability, and maintainability, then break ambiguous problems into clear engineering solutions. Stay hands-on through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving to set a high bar for quality, testing, and observability. Mentor engineers, review designs from peers, and identify technical risks before they impact reliability. Own systems beyond release by monitoring production, investigating incidents, and resolving root causes. Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality products quickly while improving tooling and automation.
Required Qualifications
- Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems
- Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure
- Strong system design and architecture skills with experience making technical decisions for complex or high-scale systems
- Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers
- Comfortable reviewing code, debugging complex issues and working directly with production systems
- Able to explain complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams
- Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes
- Able to work fast with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production
- Strong judgment around when to move quickly, when to simplify and when deeper engineering investment is required
- English is our main working language across global teams. Strong English communication is required
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