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Vice President / Principal Software Engineer leading backend architecture and development for Home Solutions to support high-growth home services marketplace. Overseeing engineering excellence and guiding a high-performing team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and define the architecture of our backend systems, ensuring they scale with the needs of the business.
- Architect and guide the build of marketing technologies, predictive systems, and intelligent decisioning engines supporting the home-services consumer journey.
- Own and evolve core backend systems, including: Lead Management Platform, Ad Targeting & Conversion Upload Systems.
- Oversee infrastructure, codebases, and data flows across lead management, conversion upload systems, and backend integrations.
- Drive technical strategy and roadmap creation across backend engineering and integrations. Collaborate with data engineering and front-end teams.
- Partner with business, product, and data leaders to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and scalability goals.
- Demonstrate deep technical expertise by designing and building high-scale, high-reliability systems.
- Implement scalable services using modern languages and frameworks.
- Build cloud-native systems leveraging modern DevOps and AWS practices.
- Integrate predictive models, decisioning frameworks, and real-time data pipelines into mission-critical workflows.
- Mentor a team of software and data engineers, supporting their technical growth and delivery.
- Establish and uphold best practices for testing, code quality, automation, security, and system reliability.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of engineering experience with increasing architectural and technical leadership responsibility.
- Significant experience designing and owning enterprise tech stacks for high-growth or complex digital businesses.
- Deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and modern API protocols.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure design in AWS.
- Programming expertise in languages such as Elixir, Python, PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Strong communicator able to partner effectively with Product, Data Science, and business stakeholders.
- Comfortable owning ambiguous, high-impact problems and driving them to completion.
- Proactive risk mitigation mindset with high urgency when critical issues arise.
- Motivated by autonomy, craftsmanship, and leveraging automation or AI to deliver better, faster outcomes.
Benefits:
- flexible time off
- health/dental/vision
- 401k match
- an annual Relax & Recharge Bonus
- an annual Learning & Development stipend to enroll in class(es) of your choosing
- up to $75 mobile reimbursement
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