Software Developer - L5

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

The Software Developer - L5 will provide technical leadership across engineering teams by driving architecture decisions, establishing best practices, and delivering scalable solutions. This role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence teams beyond direct ownership areas.

• Define technical direction, standards, and architectural patterns adopted across multiple engineering teams.
• Design and develop complex distributed systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives and represent engineering in broader technical and business discussions.
• Architect platform-level solutions, including high-availability systems, cloud infrastructure, and service-oriented architectures.
• Create reusable knowledge through documentation, tooling, engineering practices, and technical guidance.
• Mentor senior developers, support technical growth, and help develop future engineering leaders.
• Drive organization-wide improvements by identifying opportunities, evaluating tradeoffs, and delivering strategic technical initiatives.
• Establish effective approaches for leveraging AI-assisted development tools and AI-powered capabilities while maintaining quality and security standards.
• Promote strong engineering practices through thoughtful code reviews, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Research emerging technologies, assess their value, and guide adoption of solutions that improve engineering effectiveness.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience designing and delivering large-scale software systems, along with the ability to influence technical strategy across multiple teams. This position requires advanced engineering knowledge, strong leadership skills, and a passion for building innovative and reliable technology solutions.

• Deep expertise in one or more programming languages and ecosystems such as C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
• Proven experience architecting distributed systems designed for horizontal scalability and resilience.
• Strong cloud architecture experience with platforms such as Azure and/or AWS, including infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging systems, and distributed systems patterns.
• Advanced API design and security expertise, including OAuth and scalable service integrations.
• Strong data modeling skills with expertise in SQL, relational databases, and evaluating alternative data storage solutions.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies such as blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags.
• Knowledge of observability practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, SLIs, and SLOs.
• Experience integrating AI and large language model capabilities into production environments.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and lead technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Strong experience participating in code reviews and providing constructive technical feedback.
• Typical experience includes a Bachelor’s degree with approximately 12 years of experience, a Master’s degree with approximately 8 years, a PhD with approximately 5 years, or equivalent demonstrated technical impact.
• Experience with vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic AI patterns is a plus.
• Experience with multi-region architectures, high availability, disaster recovery, UI design systems, integrations, automation, technical writing, or open-source contributions is beneficial.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary range of $145,000–$225,000, with bonus eligibility.
• Fully remote work environment with flexibility and autonomy.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Mental health benefits and wellness support.
• Company-paid group life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.
• 401(k) plan with company match eligibility from the first day of employment.
• Paid time off plan aligned with applicable leave requirements.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Two paid volunteer time off days.
• Community and social events that encourage connection and engagement.
• Additional voluntary benefits, including critical illness, cancer protection, hospital coverage, and pet insurance.