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Lead Software Development Engineer

Seattle💼 Full-time💰 $190,000–$190,000🗓 2026-07-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and own systems ingesting, correlating, enriching, and surfacing billions of records for customer-facing products.

Role type

Senior IC technical lead (backend engineering)

Builds

Data ingestion pipelines, entity resolution workflows, search indexing strategies, and scalable backend services

Domain

Financial data intelligence, distributed systems, data engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Java, distributed data pipelines, streaming systems (Kafka), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, system design, object-oriented design, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure

Preferred skills

Large-scale data ingestion, entity resolution, deduplication, GCP, AI tools for productivity

Technologies

Java, Kafka, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS

Responsibilities

Manage and mentor a small team of software engineers; Write production-grade backend code daily; Lead system design for new platform capabilities; Own technical quality (code review, architecture, performance); Collaborate with EM, product, and partner teams; Drive down technical debt; Allocate engineering resources and estimate releases

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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