Lead Software Engineer

Datasite•New York City, NY

17d

About The Position

As a Lead Software Engineer , you lead projects, drive technical decisions, and manage complex systems while balancing business context, customer impact, and long-term goals. You play a crucial role in shaping the team’s direction and ensuring high-quality execution across multiple phases of development. How We Work Together: Strategic Technical Leadership Technical decision-making is guided with attention to customer needs, business priorities, and long-term sustainability. Roadmaps are created in partnership with product, the team, and leadership, ensuring alignment with broader company strategy while adapting when circumstances shift. Architectural improvements are defined to reduce operational overhead and strengthen scalability and reliability. Technical plans are kept flexible, aligning with product and company goals while maintaining room to iterate in uncertain conditions. Cross-Team Collaboration & Influence Opportunities for cross-team improvements are identified and championed, optimizing workflows and enhancing tools with broad organizational impact. Collaboration within the team is fostered by seeking and sharing feedback that drives continuous growth and technical excellence. Communication is clear and engaging, introducing challenging ideas thoughtfully and translating complex technical concepts into accessible insights. Technical guidance is provided to cross-functional stakeholders, helping clarify complex concepts and maintain alignment across departments. Problem Solving & Overcoming Obstacles Trade-offs are evaluated between business needs, technical constraints, and customer expectations to make data-driven decisions. System simplifications are driven forward, reducing technical debt and ensuring long-term maintainability. Ambiguous or difficult challenges are owned directly, applying diagnostic skills to uncover root causes and proactively resolve issues. Mentorship & Growth Mentorship is provided to engineers through coaching, feedback, and participation in hiring, representing both culture and mission. Personal and team-wide development is supported by actively seeking feedback and addressing areas of growth. Psychological safety and inclusion are emphasized, creating an environment where others can grow and succeed. Ownership & Accountability End-to-end ownership of system design and execution ensures delivery of high-quality, reliable features and services. Monitoring, logging, and failure-domain strategies are built in to safeguard performance and resilience. Project progress is consistently tracked, risks are evaluated, and plans are adapted with a long-term perspective.

Requirements

Backend engineer with a preference toward Java/Kotlin
Deep expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale systems, focusing on clean, scalable, and performant code.
Proven SME in modern programming paradigms and languages, with rapid adaptability to new ones.
Strong mastery of testing practices like unit, integration, end-to-end, and high code quality standards.
Expertise in current dev tools: version control, CI/CD, IaC, containers, cloud architectures.
Eager to adopt best-fit solutions.
Passion for tracking industry trends, evaluating new tech, and driving sustainable adoptions aligned with business goals.
Openness to incorporating AI into the dev workflow

Nice To Haves

Bonus for Marketplace or Apps development
Bonus for exposure to Kong or similar
Bonus for Full Stack capabilities

Responsibilities

Lead projects
Drive technical decisions
Manage complex systems while balancing business context, customer impact, and long-term goals
Shape the team’s direction
Ensuring high-quality execution across multiple phases of development
Technical decision-making is guided with attention to customer needs, business priorities, and long-term sustainability.
Roadmaps are created in partnership with product, the team, and leadership, ensuring alignment with broader company strategy while adapting when circumstances shift.
Architectural improvements are defined to reduce operational overhead and strengthen scalability and reliability.
Technical plans are kept flexible, aligning with product and company goals while maintaining room to iterate in uncertain conditions.
Opportunities for cross-team improvements are identified and championed, optimizing workflows and enhancing tools with broad organizational impact.
Collaboration within the team is fostered by seeking and sharing feedback that drives continuous growth and technical excellence.
Communication is clear and engaging, introducing challenging ideas thoughtfully and translating complex technical concepts into accessible insights.
Technical guidance is provided to cross-functional stakeholders, helping clarify complex concepts and maintain alignment across departments.
Trade-offs are evaluated between business needs, technical constraints, and customer expectations to make data-driven decisions.
System simplifications are driven forward, reducing technical debt and ensuring long-term maintainability.
Ambiguous or difficult challenges are owned directly, applying diagnostic skills to uncover root causes and proactively resolve issues.
Mentorship is provided to engineers through coaching, feedback, and participation in hiring, representing both culture and mission.
Personal and team-wide development is supported by actively seeking feedback and addressing areas of growth.
Psychological safety and inclusion are emphasized, creating an environment where others can grow and succeed.
End-to-end ownership of system design and execution ensures delivery of high-quality, reliable features and services.
Monitoring, logging, and failure-domain strategies are built in to safeguard performance and resilience.
Project progress is consistently tracked, risks are evaluated, and plans are adapted with a long-term perspective.