We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer who leads through technical depth and sound judgment. Someone who owns team-level architecture, provides system-wide design guidance, and brings perspective on both current and future technology choices. You take on customer problems where the technological strategy is not yet defined, and you drive productive discussions to align teams on the best path forward. You dont just deliver high-quality software yourself – you set the standard that others follow. You actively mentor multiple engineers, drive adoption of engineering best practices, and ensure your team has strong operational foundations. You make the team permanently stronger, not dependent on your presence. When the right solution isnt technical – when its a process change, a culture shift, or a staffing decision – you recognize that and act accordingly.
Key job responsibilities
– Own team architecture of personalized recommendation system operating in our scale.
– Lead the design and delivery of cross-teams projects end-to-end, with focus on maintainability, scalability, performance, and reliability.
– Collaborate with Product and Science to define technical roadmap and experiences based on data.
– Build AI-powered experiences including personalized recommendations, relevance explanations, and knowledge-driven features using LLMs and generative AI.
– Define and drive measurement strategies including analytics events and experiment configurations to track business and technical metrics.
– Create clarity from ambiguity and make sound technical decisions in a problem space where established patterns don't apply.
– Drive adoption of engineering best practices through exemplary personal coding practices.
– Proactively simplify existing systems and resolve endemic, root-cause problems.
Basic Qualifications
– Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
– 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
– 3+ years of experience leading the design and architecture of large-scale distributed systems.
– Experience owning and driving technical strategy and architecture decisions for a team or system.
– Experience leading multi-engineer projects from design through delivery, including decomposing complex problems and coordinating across teams.
– Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, deployment, and operations.
– Experience mentoring and coaching other software engineers.
Preferred Qualifications
– Masters degree or equivalent.
– Experience with experimentation platforms (A/B testing), analytics instrumentation, and metrics-driven iteration at large scale.
– Experience with AI/ML system integration, model serving infrastructure, or generative AI applications in production.
– Experience with end-to-end SDLC ownership including establishing operational excellence practices: monitoring/metrics, alarming, runbooks, incident response, and COE/retrospective processes.
– Track record of simplifying complex systems, resolving systemic technical debt, and improving engineering processes.
– Experience influencing technical decisions across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
