Atmosphere is seeking an Engineering Lead to drive critical engineering initiatives and provide technical vision and execution for their out-of-home content delivery technology stack, serving over 65,000 businesses and 150 million monthly viewers.
Requirements
- Proven track record of architecting and implementing complex distributed systems in ambiguous environments
- Strong coding skills with ability to contribute significantly to production codebases and figure out existing systems quickly
- Experience mentoring and technically leading other engineers without formal management
- Deep understanding of full-stack development and system interactions
- Demonstrated ability to work across departments, tools, and codebases to own outcomes
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and containerized applications
- AWS experience, particularly ECS, Lambda, and related services
Responsibilities
- Hands-on technical leadership: Write significant production code while architecting and driving implementation of major system components across our full technology stack
- Executive collaboration: Work directly with CTO and Chief Product Officer to translate strategic vision into technical execution and provide technical input on company-wide initiatives
- Complex problem solving: Tackle ambiguous technical challenges, reverse-engineer existing systems, and figure out solutions when requirements are unclear or evolving
- Team coordination and mentoring: Guide and develop other engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical decision-making without formal people management responsibilities
- System architecture: Design scalable, reliable solutions using our AWS-native infrastructure and data pipeline
- Cross-functional ownership: Partner with product, design, data, sales, and business teams to understand needs, translate requirements into technical solutions, and own delivery end-to-end
- Technical strategy: Drive technical roadmap decisions, technology choices, and engineering best practices across the organization
Other
- Availability to be in-office 4-5 days a week is required.
- Computer Science degree or equivalent demonstrated expertise
- 6+ years delivering world-class, customer-facing software products with increasing technical leadership responsibilities
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical decisions across teams and interface with senior leadership
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.
