Lead Software Engineer - Core Product

About Us

We are a recently Series A funded technology and lifestyle startup headquartered in Irvine, California with a fashion/design office in Seoul, South Korea. Our brand spans multiple touchpoints including digital art, social media, fashion merchandise, music events, community meetups, and digital applets. We blend social media technology with authentic community building both online and offline.

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Lead Engineer to help us build a next generation social networking platform. Strong candidates should have experience or familiarity with building real-time communications infrastructure, enterprise-scale social media applications, and knowledge management systems (e.g. Obsidian). This role requires a deep understanding of contemporary social networking technologies and the ability to solve complex technical problems in the web development space.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architectural design of an enterprise-scale social networking application with an emphasis on modularity and extensibility

• Develop fast and reliable real-time communications and knowledge management software

• Design scalable APIs and communication protocols between the core platform and integrated applications

• Establish architectural guidelines and patterns for both the core platform and integrated applications

• Document architectural specifications and development procedures

• Integrate both first party and third party systems with a native single-sign on service system

• Engineer data solutions that accommodate high-density information interfaces

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development

• 5+ years of experience with architectural decision making

• Established track record of delivering on complex technical requirements

• Experience building real-time communication systems

• Experience with enterprise scale social networking architecture

• Demonstrated track record bringing software projects from 0-to-1

• Experience managing technical teams and developers

Technical Requirements

Knowledge of:

• Real-time communication architectures

• Social graph data modeling

• Content delivery networks

• Push notification systems

• Activity feed implementations

• Content moderation strategies

• User and platform security schemes

• Distributed caching strategies

• Connection pooling and management

Experience or familiarity with:

• RTC languages (Erlang, Elixir, Go, WebSocket)

• High-performance languages (WebAssembly, Rust, C++)

• React and modern frontend architecture (TypeScript, Next.js)

• Backend development (Node.js, Python, or similar)

• Graph databases (Neo4j or similar)

• Redis or similar in-memory databases

• Message queuing systems

• WebSocket/WebRTC implementations

• Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)

• System monitoring and debugging

Location

• On-site in Irvine, California.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package

• Comprehensive health benefits

• Flexible PTO policy

• Professional development opportunities

• Opportunity to shape the future of a fast-growing brand