Lead Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the backend accounting engineering team, driving the technical direction and delivery to manage, support, and expand integrations into external accounting software.
• Collaborate with the front-end team, QA, and product team through the entire software development process: conception, requirements gathering, estimation, development, testing, and deployment.
• Be the technical face of the team, responsible for project investigation, system design, documentation, and stakeholder presentations.
• Work closely with product managers, architects, and engineers to deliver accounting features, improve system performance, and contribute to strategic direction.
• Generate technical diagrams and documentation to communicate design options and trade-offs.
• Drive daily sessions with the backend team to review tasks, prioritize, break down work, plan deliverables, track progress, and remove roadblocks.
• Write well-tested, readable, and maintainable backend code with attention to performance, scalability, and security.
• Perform root cause failure analysis, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements.
• Conduct code reviews, promote code quality, and ensure adherence to coding standards.
• Guide and coach other engineers to maximize their technical potential.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Six to eight years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading projects as a lead backend engineer with 12+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to grasp new product features early in their development cycle.
• Expertise in creating schemas and writing efficient SQL queries on relational databases.
• Experience with software monitoring tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.
• Experience working in an agile development (Scrum) environment.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with remote teams, technical leadership, and architects.
• Strong business understanding to bridge technical and business priorities.

Nice to Have

• Domain knowledge of accounting software such as Intuit QuickBooks, Xero, Sage Intacct, etc., and experience with their APIs.
• Experience leading software architecture design for complex distributed systems and applications.
• Skilled in designing modern event-driven architecture.
• Expertise in design patterns, software architecture principles, object-oriented programming, Java, Spring Framework, and persistence frameworks.
• Experience with Docker, RESTful web services, and asynchronous programming in microservices.
• Experience with building enterprise software using cloud-based products/services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Six to eight years of relevant experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision).
• Basic term and optional term life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave.
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan.
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure).
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities.
• Adoption assistance.
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per year.