Senior Software Engineer - Team Lead

Summary

Join Brevity, a venture-backed startup, as a Sr. Software Engineer - Team Lead. Initially, you will contribute individually to learn the architecture and stack, ship features, and familiarize yourself with the product and team. Gradually, you will take on more architectural and delivery responsibilities and lead the team. You will design, implement, test, and deploy product features, evolve system architecture, and drive engineering best practices. You will also mentor and manage the engineering team, estimate and communicate timelines, and resolve production issues. The role also involves providing technical support and contributing to hiring and defining the engineering culture.

Requirements

• Recent experience (last 2 yrs) as a Lead Software Engineer in an early-stage, high-growth, fast-paced Startup team
• In the last 6mos: Shipped your own PRs Back-End and Front-End microservices, integrated with Cloud Services
• Ideally: Python/Django, React, AWS, Kubernetes, RDS/Postgres, Redis or Elasticache, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB NOTE: This will be a core discussion point during interviews
• 3+ years leading Enterprise SaaS application development
• Excellent communication: Can run an Architectural Design Review or a Product Roadmap Update with business stakeholders
• Authorized to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and deploy product features across our stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres (RDS), Redis, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB Python/Django, React, Tailwind / Material-UI
• Integrations with our subprocessors (see https://trust.brevitypitch.com )
• Evolve system architecture for performance, reliability, security, and economy, as usage grows 10x over the next 12mos
• Drive engineering best practices, e.g. code review, automated testing, observability, CI/CD
• Gradually – mentor and manage the engineering team: run daily standups, resolve blockers, run architectural design reviews, manage delivery dates, identify areas for improvement, deliver feedback
• Estimate and communicate delivery timelines to Product, CS, Sales
• Monitor and resolve production outages & incidents, security vulnerabilities, and SOC 2 compliance requirements
• Provide technical support to CS & Sales as needed
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and defining our engineering culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading development of conversational AI products
• Experience scaling an engineering team from seed through Series-B
• Familiar with SOC 2 requirements