Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be designing, developing, maintaining, and deploying mission critical systems for the Nexus platform. You will work closely with a small, fast-paced product and engineering team as well as stakeholders across all disciplines and departments to ensure our platform can meet the needs of game publishers and content creators at scale. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work across, and significantly impact, many different backend and frontend systems both existing and greenfield.


As the engineering lead on our small team, we are looking for a team member with the ability and interest to contribute directly to the Nexus codebase and to the overall strategic direction of the team’s efforts. In your lead capacity you will work with the leadership team to shape and understand the vision and goals for Nexus and, in turn, translate that clearly into our engineering effort and decisions. 


Key Responsibilities

 
Design, develop, test, and deploy systems, applications, APIs, toolkits, and utilities with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and usability


 
Work closely with stakeholders across the company to define technical requirements


 
Provide technical leadership on a small, nimble, and talented engineering team


 
Drive technical prioritization, planning rituals, and engineering processes 


 
Collaborate and communicate directly with company leadership on engineering priorities, needs, and accomplishments


 
Contribute to and improve coding best practices, documentation, and standards


 
Interface with customers as a subject matter expert on platform integrations


 
Build user-facing tools for both rich web applications and command-line interfaces


 
Design data systems and automation pipelines to increase efficiency


 
Collaborate effectively in a remote-first environment



Skills you’ll develop and experience you’ll gain

 
Interface directly with company leadership to shape a growing platform


 
Implement technical leadership processes and rituals on a small product and engineering team


 
Design and build products from the ground up without bureaucracy


 
Flex your communication, organization, and management skills in order to effectively prioritize and lead by example



Ideal person for this role

 
7+ years of professional experience in software engineering and releasing scaled web products


 
Hands-on experience building end-to-end systems and services from the backend to the frontend


 
Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional startup environment where you will have the chance to take initiative and help shape the future of Nexus


 
Proficiency w/ SQL databases (MySQL, Redis, etc)


 
Proficiency in modern web development technologies and frameworks (ReactJS, NodeJS, Javascript ES6, HTML, CSS, SASS, etc)


 
Experience building RESTful APIs in languages such as C#, Node, Java, Go, etc


 
Experience using cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform


 
Experience w/ application containerization like Docker, Kubernetes, or Docker Swarm


 
Experience working on and analyzing high-traffic, responsive web sites, applications, and APIs


 
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to clearly articulate difficult and complex subjects with both technical and non-technical teammates


 
Comfortable with customer-facing communication


 
Ability to effectively prioritize inputs from many stakeholders


 
Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional startup environment where you will have the chance to take initiative and help shape the future of Nexus



Bonus points

 
Technical leadership and mentorship experience


 
Experience working in a SaaS and/or startup environment


 
Experience w/ e-commerce, payments, and fraud detection


 
Professional experience with game backends or middleware


 
Passion for games and content creators