Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and run real-time, event driven systems that ingest and process data from edge devices
• Build backend services and streaming pipelines with Java and Apache Flink to shape data into reliable events, handling guest media and identity reconciliation
• Architect and operate production systems on AWS with emphasis on scalability, cost efficiency, observability, and fault tolerance
• Lead end to end delivery across multiple systems, balancing domain goals with technical constraints to deliver impactful features
• Drive architectural decisions and own critical components of the platform
• Create clean, versioned event schemas and APIs for downstream consumers and external integrations
• Act as an autonomous technical liaison and team representative
• Mentor junior engineers and present to executive stakeholders
• Contribute to estimation and planning of sophisticated scalable projects
• Occasional travel may be required, estimated at 10 to 15 percent

Requirements

• Seven or more years of professional software engineering experience, including distributed, production systems
• At least three years of cross team technical leadership with end to end ownership of multi service initiatives and architecture decisions implemented at scale
• Lead through technical influence rather than people management
• Expertise in building real time or streaming data pipelines, including ingestion, aggregation, windowing, and emission
• Experience with AWS IoT Core, Kinesis, Kafka, and MQTT
• Expert-level proficiency in Java
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as ECS/EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, and timeseries databases like Timestream or InfluxDB
• Strong understanding of event driven architecture, schema evolution, and downstream integration
• Proven ability to design and deliver observable, resilient, and scalable systems
• Ability to stay current with emerging technologies to inform recommendations

Technologies

• Java
• Apache Flink
• AWS
• AWS IoT Core
• Amazon Kinesis
• Apache Kafka
• MQTT
• Amazon ECS
• Amazon EKS
• AWS Lambda
• DynamoDB
• S3
• CloudWatch
• Timestream
• InfluxDB

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Bonus and/or long term incentive units