Remote Principal Engineer, Web

Summary

Join us at LTK as a Principal Engineer, Web, where you will lead the technical direction and strategy for our web platforms, ensuring they deliver on business requirements and drive innovation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development in web development
• Experience with architecting and designing highly available/fault-tolerant, transaction processing systems and operating complex services running in the cloud
• Strong leadership experience. Leading meetings, presenting, and serving as the technical go-to person and cross-functional leader
• A mindset focused on seizing opportunities and moving with urgency
• Dedication to fierce prioritization and operational excellence
• Adaptability to a dynamic, fast-moving environment
• A growth mindset and openness to feedback
• Deep understanding of web and network stack with experience optimizing every part of the application
• Deep experience in monitoring and improving performance and functionality of end-to-end customer and web experiences
• Experience integrating 3rd party APIs (REST, OAuth, JSONP)
• Experience with developing and deploying AWS tools and systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Highly quantitative, have great judgment, and passion for delivering tremendous business value in an uncharted domain through a scalable system that anticipates significant growth across multiple dimensions
• Inventive, and have a pragmatic and iterative approach to delivering high-quality software. You’ll simplify and get things done, working effectively with engineering teams across the company
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• You'll be responsible for the technical direction, strategy and health of our web platforms
• Ensure that our technology can deliver on the business/product requirements necessary to make LTK successful at a rapid pace and scale
• Develop strong partnerships with product teams to understand, and proactively address, future technology needs and current developer pain points
• Champion and drive large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that improve the web platform
• Act as the ultimate “customer representative” for web engineers, including representing needs to leadership and prioritizing projects on the platform teams that ensure high-quality features and a world-class developer experience
• Scale your leadership through both direct mentorship and via best practices, processes, training, and tools
• Ensure solid technical plans are in place for projects within web via direct review or delegation
• Be the technical point of contact for decisions that impact the whole web platform and for cross-functional partners like product, marketing, and recruiting

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package to meet the needs of you and your family
• 401(k) with LTK company matching
• Medical Insurance, Vision Insurance, Dental Insurance
• Paid Maternity Leave and Paid Paternity Leave
• Summer Fridays and Flexible PTO