Staff Software Engineer, Lead

Summary

Join Boulevard as a Staff Software Engineer, Lead and lead initiatives and architecture across your domain, partnering with Product and Design. You will play a crucial role in building exceptional payment products for seamless booking experiences. Lead and manage a 3-5 person squad while contributing hands-on. Own the technical architecture and implementation of payment products, establishing and monitoring system health metrics. Champion codebase maintenance and participate in incident commander on-call rotation. This role requires 8+ years of full-stack experience, payment systems expertise, and strong communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• Experience 8+ years of fullstack experience building well-architected, large-scale, and mission-critical systems
• Experience with payment systems, and PCI compliance
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go)
• CS Foundations : Ability to make sound decisions and tradeoffs in design and implementation, appropriately anticipating scale, maintenance, and overall operational feasibility of solutions
• Strong Communicator : Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. You know your audience and can communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborative : Deep partnership with your product, design, and marketing counterparts, constantly collaborating to ensure we progress towards the desired outcomes, maintaining healthy engagement with peers and stakeholders across R&D for cross-functional initiatives
• Ownership : Able to lead large initiatives and roadmaps by partnering with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to define and scope smaller deliverables that yield incremental value to the business and customers
• Autonomy : Ability to move things forward in the face of ambiguity, operating effectively in decision-making while clearly articulating risks, trade-offs, and ensuring proper visibility to key stakeholders and the squad
• Technical & Leadership Skills : You have a balance of both technical and leadership strengths. You guide sound technical decisions within the squad, as well as empower your team to autonomously create significant impact
• Forward Thinker : Demonstrated ability to set strategy for evolving systems to best support long-term objectives while still delivering incremental value in the now

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the 3-5 person squad (~40%) while contributing hands-on as a Staff SWE (~60%)
• Strategic planning and execution, ensuring alignment with the company’s vision and objectives
• Own and lead the technical architecture and implementation of Boulevard’s payment products
• Establish and monitor system health metrics, implementing strategies to exceed targets
• Champion the maintenance of an observable, secure, and efficient codebase, addressing technical debt proactively to ensure the platform’s reliability and performance
• Participate in Incident Commander on-call rotation, where you will lead incident response by guiding the response towards resolution, communicating to stakeholders, and identifying post-incident improvements

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Elixir is a plus

Benefits

• Your total budgeted cash compensation for this role is between $190,000 and $220,000 USD, depending on your current skills, experience, training, and overall market demands. This range is subject to change, and there is always room for growth and advancement
• We’ve got you covered with a 401(k) match plus dental, medical, vision, and life insurance
• Take a break whenever you need with our flexible vacation day policy
• Fully remote so you can choose where you want to work. You’ll receive a work from home stipend every month
• Family planning resources and specialized support programs
• Equity: get ahead on the ground floor and grow with Boulevard
• Boulevard Bucks Learning and Development program allows employees to explore businesses in the market we serve