Leading Senior Software Engineer for High-Growth Ventures

Senior Software Engineer - High Velocity Environment

We are seeking an experienced senior software engineer who thrives in high-velocity environments, designs complex scalable architectures, ships production-ready code across the full stack, and is eager to lead a team of developers.
The Mission:
• Lead a squad of 2-4 Software Engineers to:
• Architect clean, evolvable systems: from high-level platform topology down to LLD and code patterns.
• Ship production-grade services spanning backend APIs, vector-search RAG pipelines, and polished React experiences.
• Mentor & Multiply: raise engineering standards, run design reviews, pair, coach, and unblock teammates.
• Own Reliability: non-negotiable SLIs/SLOs, observability, on-call rotation design, and post-mortems.
• Drive Roadmaps: partner with Product & Venture leads to translate fuzzy business bets into executable backlogs.
• Elevate DevEx: CI/CD, IaC, test automation, and docs that keep velocity high without chaos.
Core Requirements:
• 5+ yrs building & scaling production systems (startups or Tier-1 tech).
• Demonstrated system-level thinking: can white-board trade-offs across API, DB, cache, infra, and cost.
• Polyglot backend strength: Python (FastAPI, Django, or Flask) and TypeScript/Node; React mastery on the front.
• Cloud-native: Container orchestration, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CDK/Pulumi), observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Ownership mindset: you design it, you ship it, you wake up if it breaks, you iterate until it sings.
What You'll Do (Day-to-Day):
• System Design — Draft high-level and low-level designs for multi-tenant web services that hit tight latency targets; weigh build-vs-buy decisions for data stores; model event-driven workflows with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• End-to-End Development — Write and review production code across backend (Python/TypeScript/Node/Go) and frontend (React); establish coding standards, enforce domain boundaries, and drive automated test coverage.
• Data & Caching — Design relational schemas, optimize queries, implement Redis (or similar) caching layers, and plan sharding/partitioning strategies as traffic grows beyond 100 k DAU..
• Infrastructure & DevOps — Author Docker/K8s artifacts and Terraform/CDK stacks; build CI/CD pipelines; automate blue-green or canary deployments on AWS/GCP; define runbooks and alerting.
• Performance & Reliability — Instrument services, track SLIs/SLOs, run load tests, lead post-mortems, and continually improve latency, throughput, and availability.
• Technical Leadership — Conduct weekly 1-on-1s, run design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and align the squad with OKRs while fostering psychological safety and async excellence.
Bonus Points:
• Prior venture-builder or 0 to 1 startup experience, wearing many hats.
• Real-world LangGraph agent-orchestration or autonomous workflow pipelines.
• Experience with Kafka streams, event-sourcing, or CQRS in production.
• Security by design (OWASP, IaC policy enforcement, secret management).
• Published tech articles, OSS maintainer, or conference talks.
Why Join Us:
• Engineering Excellence: We prioritize robust, maintainable code over glossy demos; real engineering for real business impact
• True Ownership: You won't just be implementing specs; you'll help shape our technical direction and architecture
• Remote-First Culture: Work where and when you're most productive, with async-first communication and results-oriented leadership
• Velocity Without Chaos: We move quickly but deliberately, with proper planning and sustainable pace
Key Benefits:
• Competitive Compensation: USD salary, equity (ESOPs) in our ecosystem, flexible remote work, and a clearly defined growth trajectory

We look forward to hearing from you Please submit your resume, GitHub link, and a short cover letter, along with three sentences describing a system you architected and shipped to production that scaled an order of magnitude without downtime, and one link showcasing your system-design thinking.