Lead Product Engineer

Lakeview Loan Servicing•Coral Gables, FL

11h•Remote

About The Position

The Lead Product Engineer on the Horizon team is responsible for driving the overall effectiveness, quality, and technical direction of product engineering execution across the platform. This role serves as a player-coach, combining hands-on development with ownership of how the team translates complex operational workflows into scalable, reliable, and production-ready systems. This role is accountable for ensuring consistency in system design, engineering standards, and delivery quality across the team. The Lead Product Engineer operates across multiple workstreams, guiding solution design, shaping architectural decisions, and ensuring alignment between product intent and technical execution. Working closely with Product, Engineering leadership, and domain SMEs, this individual ensures that complex problem spaces are broken down effectively, solutions are designed with strong domain and operational awareness, and teams are executing with speed, clarity, and high standards in a regulated, high-stakes environment. Success in this role requires strong technical depth, excellent product judgment, and the ability to lead through influence and direct engagement, raising the bar for execution while enabling the team to move quickly from ambiguity to production.

Requirements

4-6+ years of experience building and shipping high-quality production software
Proven experience leading or guiding teams in complex, ambiguous environments
Demonstrated ability to operate as both an individual contributor and team leader
Good judgment in ambiguous environments where the problem is not fully defined yet, where we need to go from zero to one
The ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical teammates
A bias toward action: you thrive in an environment where you are learning quickly, shipping thoughtfully, and improving through iteration
Strong experience with a modern frontend stack, including TypeScript, React, and/or Next.js, styling systems/libraries, and modern build tooling
Strong product instincts, great design taste, and a clear sense for building products that feel natural and intuitive to end users
Experience with rapid prototyping and tools/workflows that enable fast iteration cycles
Experience building modern backend systems using Python, Go, Rust, or similar languages, including APIs, middleware, ORMs, authentication, authorization, and security-minded application design
Experience building and shipping software on major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Experience working in a modern software development environment and shipping quickly with high ownership
Comfort navigating and iteratively improving on shared CI/CD, Observability, Reporting, Analytics, and Data-heavy Systems

Nice To Haves

Experience leading engineering efforts in regulated industries (fintech, mortgage, lending, etc.)
Experience building workflow-heavy systems or internal operational tools
Experience scaling teams, processes, and systems in a high-growth environment
Experience improving engineering velocity, system performance, and reliability at scale
Experience working closely with product and domain SMEs in complex environments

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day technical and product guidance to Product Engineers and Senior Product Engineers
Ensure consistent, high-quality execution across multiple concurrent workstreams
Act as the primary escalation point for complex technical or product challenges
Balance hands-on contribution with oversight to ensure delivery velocity and quality
Oversee the design and delivery of complex, cross-cutting product capabilities
Ensure solutions are cohesive across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers
Maintain accountability for system quality, reliability, scalability, and maintainability across the team’s outputs
Ensure consistent and accurate translation of domain workflows into product capabilities across engineers
Partner with SMEs and Product to validate that solutions reflect real-world operational complexity and constraints
Identify gaps, edge cases, and inconsistencies across implementations and drive alignment
Guide architectural direction across key areas of the platform in partnership with engineering leadership
Establish and enforce patterns, standards, and best practices across the team
Ensure appropriate tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and long-term system health
Define and continuously improve how Product Engineering work is executed (e.g., scoping, breakdown, handoffs, iteration)
Ensure strong alignment between Product, Engineering, and SMEs throughout the development lifecycle
Improve clarity in execution by driving better definition, estimation, and sequencing of work
Serve as a key interface between Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders
Provide clear communication on technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and progress
Help align stakeholders on priorities, scope, and execution strategy
Contribute directly to critical areas of the codebase, particularly in complex or high-risk areas
Set the standard for engineering quality, maintainability, and performance through direct contribution
Support troubleshooting, debugging, and resolution of complex production issues
Actively mentor and develop Product Engineers and Senior Product Engineers
Raise the bar on system design thinking, product judgment, and engineering quality
Help identify skill gaps and support growth across the team
Drive continuous improvement across both product capabilities and engineering processes
Identify opportunities to improve developer velocity, system reliability, and overall team effectiveness
Ensure feedback loops (customer, SME, internal) are incorporated into ongoing development