[Remote] Lead Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SteelSeries is a global gaming peripherals brand focused on delivering high-performance experiences for gamers. The Lead Software Engineer will develop scalable cloud platforms, web applications, and APIs while collaborating with hardware and software teams, leading engineers, and improving engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Come up to speed with our tech stack. Our new web application is written in React and deployed in AWS using containers
- Ship a new feature in our cloud platform
- Evaluate the architecture of our cloud platform, suggest potential areas for refactoring, and work with product management and engineering to plan any desired changes
- Assist product in defining the quarterly roadmap of work for the cloud platform team
- Continue to innovate and add features to our web-based experiences for gamers
- Play with and give feedback on unannounced hardware products coming out next year
- Work very closely with our hardware and software product teams to align on the vision for our upcoming products. Help define hardware and web APIs to ensure our apps can seamlessly interact with our hardware and cloud services to provide an amazing user experience for our customers
- Proactively refactor code to achieve a perpetually clean design that has adequate test coverage
- Evaluate new programming languages, frameworks, and tools and propose when they should be integrated and/or migrated to
- Work across software teams to educate others on best practices for code, test, and documentation quality
Skills
- * 7+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering
- * Experience building scalable cloud solutions including container orchestration, database design, and network infrastructure, and distributed systems design
- * Experience designing and building web back ends and web user interfaces
- * Demonstrated ability to build and operate reliable, high-availability cloud platforms with hands-on experience in observability (logging, tracing, monitoring) and resilience engineering
- * Proven experience leading a platform engineering team to deliver well documented and well tested cloud solutions
- * Proficiency leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and drive engineering efficiency
- * A desire to mentor and elevate fellow engineers
- * Eagerness to continuously learn and excel in the craft of software engineering
- * Experience leading a team of software engineers to produce tested and well-documented software
Benefits
- 10% time (slack day) policy. Spend 1 day every two weeks learning a new skill, spiking out a new feature, taking a training course, or putting together a Lunch & Learn presentation for your colleagues.
- Continuous education stipend to support ongoing training.
- Early access to SteelSeries gear such as headsets, keyboards, mice, and controllers, including the opportunity to test and provide feedback on devices before they are released.
- Employee discount on all SteelSeries hardware.
- All the hardware you need.
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