Lead Software Engineer – Editor

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Lead software engineer building ThriveCart’s AI-powered ecommerce conversion editor. Guiding Editor 2.0 delivery, production health, and AI features that improve merchant conversions.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead technical direction for the ecommerce editor, including AI generation, layout suggestions, content assistance, and personalization
  • Own the Editor 2.0 team's sprint output, unblocking, code review quality, and critical-path implementation
  • Plan sprints, break down tasks, and prioritize work
  • Unblock engineers on technical blockers, ambiguous requirements, and cross-team dependencies
  • Make technical decisions and maintain code review standards
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for production incidents and editor production health
  • Ramp and mentor team members, including their AI tool usage
  • Propose and build AI-powered product features for visual page and funnel building
  • Evaluate AI features based on real workflows and conversion impact
  • Write unit and integration tests
  • Identify edge cases and risks during planning
  • Use AI coding tools daily and establish effective AI-assisted development workflows
  • Collaborate directly with the product manager on roadmap and feature definition
  • Ship meaningful features to production and measure conversion impact

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • At least 1–2 years in a lead or de facto lead capacity
  • Owned technical direction for a team, not just senior individual-contributor work
  • Hands-on experience in PHY
  • Hands-on experience building consumer-facing web products at scale
  • Experience with page builders, website/funnel editors, or similarly complex WYSIWYG/visual editing tools strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated track record shipping AI-powered product features
  • Experience working directly with a product manager on roadmap and feature definition
  • Comfortable being the primary escalation point for production issues
  • TypeScript and Node.js experience
  • PHP 7.4/8+ and Laravel experience
  • MariaDB, Redis, AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, S3), Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD experience

Benefits:

  • Remote work in Europe / Latin America
  • Growth-oriented environment
  • Open communication and clear goal setting
  • Diverse team
  • Opportunities to mentor and develop team members