Lead Software Engineer

The role

The Lead Software Engineer will act as a technical lead for a product squad. You will design, build, and ship full-stack features while mentoring engineers and setting technical direction.

What you will do

• Design, build, and ship full-stack features end to end.
• Set and enforce technical standards for your area.
• Lead design discussions and make pragmatic trade-off calls.
• Identify and pay down technical debt.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through pairing, code review, and structured feedback.
• Break large initiatives into well-scoped work and keep the squad unblocked.
• Run architecture and code reviews.
• Help interview and onboard new engineers.
• Own the delivery and health of your squad's work.
• Partner with Product Managers and the Head of Engineering to align technical roadmap with company strategy.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience shipping and operating production web applications.
• Depth in at least one modern server-side language and framework and one front-end framework — PHP/Laravel, Python, Node/TypeScript, Ruby, Go, or similar.
• Demonstrated ability to move into unfamiliar languages, frameworks, and problem domains quickly and ship in them.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects and mentoring engineers as a technical lead, staff engineer, or equivalent.
• Strong grasp of API design, scalable application architecture, and the common patterns behind them.
• Advanced relational database skills, including schema design, query optimization, and caching strategy.
• Experience with authentication and authorization across multiple systems and environments.
• Track record of integrating multiple data sources and third-party APIs into coherent systems.
• Excellent communication skills and the credibility to influence technical direction without formal authority.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS or another cloud platform, including CI/CD pipelines.
• A strong automated testing practice, in whatever stack you've worked in.
• Exposure to PHP/Laravel or Vue.js — our current stack.
• Background in fintech, financial services, or another regulated environment.
• Experience building AI or LLM-powered features into a production application.
• Prior experience growing a team or defining engineering process.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + equity
• Healthcare coverage
• 401k

About the company

PactFi provides secure, end-to-end, operational infrastructure for managing complex private credit transactions. The platform is secured to a bank-grade standard and has received SOC 2 Type 2 attestation.