Social News Desk is looking for a Lead / Senior Software Engineer to guide the next phase of their platform's evolution, ensuring their SaaS infrastructure remains scalable, secure, and performant, while also managing and mentoring a team and overseeing code quality and release processes.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience (Node.js + AWS)
- Significant experience with AI-assisted software development (tools, methods, and research)
- Strong background designing and scaling backend services and APIs
- Experience managing production infrastructure in a serverless or distributed environment
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs (especially social media platforms)
- Familiarity with real-time messaging (socket.io, WebSockets, or other techniques)
- Exposure to cost-optimization and infrastructure budgeting
Responsibilities
- Drive technical design discussions, architecture decisions, and implementation strategies
- Own/lead code reviews and source code standards across multiple repositories
- Plan, coordinate, and oversee production releases and deployment pipelines
- Own uptime, reliability, and observability of production systems
- Monitor and optimize cloud vendor cost and utilization
- Champion DevOps best practices, CI/CD automation, and internal developer productivity tools
- Contribute to overall engineering hiring, onboarding, and process improvements as we scale
Other
- 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams (as tech lead, manager, or equivalent)
- Proven track record delivering reliable, customer-facing SaaS products
- Strong communication skills and the ability to align technical execution with business goals
- Previous work in a SaaS, public sector and/or B2B software
- Fully remote work environment within approved states
