LawnStarter is hiring a
Lead Growth Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Lead Growth Software Engineer at LawnStarter, a fast-growing company specializing in lawn care services. The role involves leading technical initiatives, writing quality code, and driving continuous improvement. The team is small, tight-knit, and distributed, with a focus on high performance and growth.

Requirements

• Experienced, full-stack engineer with a fair amount of experience working on both server- and client-side web software
• Understand fundamental computer science concepts
• Understand technical SEO best practices to increase organic traffic and improve search engine rankings, and know how to optimize content, website structure, and performance to drive higher traffic and improve user experience
• Experience developing and implementing strategies to improve conversion rates at each stage of the funnel, from awareness to retention
• Firm grasp of SQL and databases in general (including non-relational databases)

Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives from inception to the hands of our users
• Drive continuous improvement and constantly evaluate the return on investment on every decision we make when building our products
• Lead the development of LawnStarter platform ensuring that we’re utilizing the best development techniques, architectural patterns, frameworks and libraries for those initiatives
• Own and ensure the resolution of complex problems found in our systems and integrations
• Find opportunities to broadcast knowledge and lessons learned across delivery teams
• Delegate to teammates and work with them to ensure they're successful
• Identify technical debt buydown opportunities and work with the engineering management team and the product management team to prioritize these activities
• Ensure patterns are in place to provide thorough automated testing with tests at each level of the test pyramid
• Communicate patterns and solutions through both thorough written documentation and technical presentations

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with cloud development, Test Driven Development (TDD), understanding what makes an API RESTful, what React is, what an XSS attack is, and how an MVC web framework works