Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LifeLoop is an AI-native engineering organization seeking a Lead Software Engineer to serve as its most senior individual contributor. The role leads development of complex platform products, advances AI-driven development workflows, sets engineering quality and technical standards, coaches engineers, and shapes the platform’s technical direction.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of the most complex products and features on the LifeLoop platform
- Identify and drive adoption of emerging AI tools and workflows that improve how the team builds software
- Serve as a technical coach to both engineering leads and junior engineers — helping the team level up technically and in their use of AI-assisted development
- Contribute to the engineering playbook and continuously evolve how the team works
- Operate with a pragmatic coaching style — hands-on, not just advisory
- Set and uphold engineering quality standards across the codebase
- Collaborate with product and leadership to shape the technical direction of the platform
- Drive spec-driven development practices and ensure technical specifications are clear, complete, and actionable
Skills
- Deep expertise across modern full-stack environments, including MERN, Java Spring Boot, cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure, and distributed systems
- Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from design through delivery
- Advanced proficiency in coding, unit testing, and technical design at scale — code should be trusted to scale, with known tipping points at time of authorship
- Expert-level functional and technical design skills — ability to define technical specifications for work of high complexity and lead the architectural direction of the most complex strategic initiatives
- Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated leadership in coaching and mentoring engineering teams without direct management authority
- Experience pioneering new engineering standards based on modern best practices and communicating them to the broader team
- Ability to lead change and champion new ways of working, including AI-driven development practices
- Results-oriented mindset — leads across projects, lending expertise, guidance, and picking up work to ensure broad team objectives are met
- Strong collaboration skills — able to form teams and organize efforts ensuring project assignments are equitable and efficient
- Deep commitment to spec-driven development, pragmatic execution, and continuous improvement
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