Lead Software Engineer — AI Editor for Ecommerce

Lever, Inc.; Ireland; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote across Europe

AI-led editor project

Hands-on leadership

Job summary

Lever, Inc. in Ireland is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Editor) to own the editor's AI-powered features and technical direction, while continuing to code critical features yourself. You will guide the Editor 2.0 team, establish AI-native practices, and ensure production health.

You will work with Product on roadmaps and opportunities, mentor engineers, and help shape AI-enabled workflows for content generation and personalization in a fast-moving SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with at least 1–2 years in a lead capacity and ownership of technical direction.
• Hands-on software engineering background building consumer-facing web products at scale.
• Experience with complex page builders, editors, or visual editing tools is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience shipping AI-powered product features beyond AI coding assistants.
• Experience collaborating with Product Managers on roadmap, prioritization, and strategy.
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js experience; familiarity with PHP 7.4+/Laravel during transitions.
• Experience with MariaDB, Redis, AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, S3), Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• Strong testing, code quality, risk management, and production reliability.

Responsibilities

• Own the editor's technical direction and AI-powered capabilities, including content generation, layout suggestions, and personalization.
• Lead the Editor 2.0 delivery: sprint planning, task breakdown, prioritization, tracking, and cross-team blockers.
• Hands-on contribution on critical-path engineering work when the team needs capacity.
• Maintain high standards for code reviews, decisions, testing, maintainability and reliability.
• Own incident response and production health for the editor; act as escalation point.
• Partner with Product to define roadmaps and opportunities, contributing technical and product judgment.
• Evaluate AI ideas based on real user workflows and conversion objectives.

Job description

Lever, Inc. in Ireland is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Editor) to own the editor's AI-powered features and technical direction, while continuing to code critical features yourself. You will guide the Editor 2.0 team, establish AI-native practices, and ensure production health.

You will work with Product on roadmaps and opportunities, mentor engineers, and help shape AI-enabled workflows for content generation and personalization in a fast-moving SaaS environment.