Head of Software Engineering

Search Atlas

full-time

Posted on: 10/15/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $150,000 - $220,000 per year

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DjangoDockerGrafanaKubernetesPostgresPython

About the role

Define and maintain long-term platform architecture and establish coding standards across engineering teams
Lead large-scale refactoring projects to improve maintainability, scalability, and performance
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across API, database, and infrastructure layers
Optimize task queues, background processing, caching, and deployment pipelines
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to senior engineers, ensuring high-quality, maintainable code
Collaborate with infrastructure teams on observability, reliability, security, and cost-efficient scaling
Lead incident postmortems with root-cause analysis and long-term fixes
Stay hands-on with coding, prototyping, debugging, and adapting to changing priorities with high-leverage solutions

7+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 years of backend Python/Django experience
3+ years in a technical leadership role (Head of Engineering, Principal Engineer, or Tech Lead)
Proven experience leading large-scale refactoring and optimization projects
Deep PostgreSQL expertise, including indexing, query optimization, and schema design
Proficiency in Celery or similar distributed task processing systems
Strong infrastructure foundation, containerization (Docker), CI/CD, Kubernetes familiarity, monitoring, and alerting
Experience with observability tools like Sentry, Datadog, and Grafana
Startup experience and exposure to larger organizations, with the ability to blend agility with engineering best practices
Excellent communication and mentorship skills in distributed teams

Benefits

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PythonDjangoPostgreSQLCeleryDockerKubernetesCI/CDquery optimizationschema designcoding standards

technical guidancementorshipcommunicationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityroot-cause analysisperformance optimizationagility