Best Egg

Lead Software Engineer

Best Egg

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $115,000 - $140,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
  • Take ownership of key components and services—from hands-on coding to deployment and monitoring.
  • Participate in technical design discussions and contribute architectural insights, working with senior leaders to shape solutions.
  • Ensure software follows modern engineering practices, including clean code, testing, automation, and cloud-native patterns.
  • Support continuous improvement in code quality, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
  • Translate business requirements into clear technical tasks and help validate assumptions and approaches.
  • Build and enhance distributed, event-driven, and cloud-native solutions in AWS.
  • Apply cloud best practices—security, cost awareness, performance, and operational efficiency—under guidance of senior engineers.
  • Contribute to observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Assist in performance tuning, resiliency improvements, and troubleshooting production issues to ensure system stability.
  • Mentor and support junior engineers through pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
  • Collaborate effectively with Product, Architecture, InfoSec, and DevOps to deliver well-aligned solutions.
  • Build strong working relationships within the engineering and product teams.

Requirements

  • 5–7 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong backend development experience with Java and Python.
  • Solid understanding of SQL, data modeling, and query optimization.
  • Working knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, services, and best practices.
  • Experience with modern databases (relational and NoSQL) such as DynamoDB, RDS, PostgreSQL, DocumentDB.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and container orchestration systems (ECS/EKS preferred).
  • Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog.
  • Ability to produce clear technical documentation and participate in design discussions.
  • Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.
  • Comfort working in Agile environments with iterative delivery and shared ownership.
  • Ability to bring clarity to complex situations and drive work forward with teammates.
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaPythonSQLdata modelingquery optimizationAWSDynamoDBRDSPostgreSQLDocumentDB
Soft Skills
mentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingclarity in complex situationsownershipcontinuous improvementtechnical documentationdesign discussionsteamwork