Lead Software Engineer

We're on a mission to help every family leave their legacy with a fast, easy, and secure way to create, manage, and distribute their estate plan online. Since 2017, we've helped hundreds of thousands of families plan for their future with a streamlined and intuitive approach that makes estate planning simple, affordable, and accessible. We're backed by leading names in venture capital, including Jackson Square Ventures, Link Ventures, Revolution's Rise of the Rest, Halogen Ventures, and more.

If you are passionate about contributing to a high-impact mission and want to work in a collaborative environment where your skills and expertise will be valued, we would love to hear from you!

About You:

• You are a technical leader, excelling in TypeScript, Node.js, and backend system design.
• You have a problem-solving mindset, approaching challenges with strategic thinking, prioritizing high-impact solutions, and driving innovation in systems and processes.
• You see AI not as a tool but as a fundamental shift in engineering, and you actively seek opportunities to harness its potential.
• You thrive in complex, fast-moving environments, navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and delivering results with a data-driven approach.
• You are a mentor and collaborator, fostering team growth, influencing cross-functional decisions, and communicating technical solutions with clarity.
• You are passionate about building secure, scalable systems, and leveraging best practices in performance optimization, observability, and compliance to ensure high-quality software.

About the Role:

Technical Leadership & Impact

• Design, architect, and deliver robust, scalable, and high-performance backend services and distributed systems.
• Lead system-level design, ensuring robust, secure, and maintainable solutions aligned with organizational standards.
• Consider AI from a strategic, holistic perspective, architecting solutions with it, integrating it into product ecosystems, and harnessing its potential to drive transformative innovation.
• Own and drive technical decisions across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term strategic goals.
• Implement and champion best practices for system reliability, performance optimization, and code quality, including test automation and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Address organization-wide technical challenges, such as scaling systems, improving performance, and enhancing reliability.
• Implement AI tooling and paradigms to improve developer efficiency, automate workflows, and enhance system reliability.

Quality & Impact

• Deliver high-quality, production-ready code that adheres to best practices, is well-documented, and prioritizes scalability and maintainability.
• Identify and champion efforts to reduce technical debt and improve system performance through continuous refactoring and optimization.
• Proactively identify and resolve system bottlenecks and issues using observability and monitoring tools.
• Drive impactful improvements in system reliability, ensuring seamless user experiences and alignment with business priorities.

Collaboration, Innovation & Mentorship

• Partner with product managers, designers, and stakeholders across the organization to align technical solutions at a strategic level with customer needs and evolving business goals.
• Develop a deep understanding of product-market fit, business metrics, and customer empathy to inform analysis and data-driven decision-making.
• Mentor and guide engineers across varying experience levels, fostering technical growth and knowledge sharing through outcome-based sponsorship.
• Communicate complex technical topics to diverse audiences, ensuring clarity and alignment on technical decisions.
• Foster a psychologically safe environment through knowledge-sharing initiatives, peer collaboration, conflict-reduction tactics, and emotional intelligence.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and tools to enhance engineering capabilities and product innovation to foster a culture of continuous learning and experimentation.

Qualifications

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