Engineering Development Lead - Full Stack

Worldscape; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldscape is a cutting-edge platform that unifies distributed data, sensors, and intelligent agents across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments. You will lead design and delivery of scalable, high-performance systems with a clear focus on architecture and value delivery.

You will mentor engineers, drive DevOps culture, and help shape the product roadmap. The ideal candidate has 15+ years in technology leadership, hands-on full‑stack experience, and a proven ability to navigate ambiguity across

Qualifications

• Required Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years delivering technology solutions and architecture.
• 5+ years coordinating multiple projects or portfolio teams.
• 3+ years in agile, fast-paced environments with ambiguity.
• Hands-on full-stack development experience (C#, Java, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js).

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of scalable, high-performance systems.
• Document solution architecture and communicate value propositions clearly.
• Own delivery of team deliverables through sprint planning.
• Provide technical leadership during code reviews to ensure quality.
• Mentor and grow a team of engineers and foster collaboration.
• Drive DevOps culture and ownership of platform health.
• Spend at least 50% of time coding and contributing to development.

Skills

Full-stack development

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

nsjail

Firecracker

MS Orleans

Vector databases

Semantic search

Prompt engineering

Job description

Worldscape is a cutting-edge platform designed to unify distributed data, sensors, and intelligent agents across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments. By combining geospatial intelligence, physics-based 3D simulation, and reward-driven AI, Worldscape enables organizations to build immersive digital twins for predictive modeling, scenario planning, and adaptive decision-making. With a zero-trust security framework, seamless integration with legacy systems, and robust developer tools, Worldscape empowers rapid deployment of agentic applications that drive resilience and efficiency in sectors like logistics, telecom, defense, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of scalable and high-performance systems
• Lead and document solution architecture, ensuring clear communication of value propositions and technical approach
• Own delivery of team deliverables through sprint planning and managing complex, ambiguous scenarios with innovative solutions.
• Provides technical leadership during code reviews for a solution/product area to ensure it meets the team's and Worldscape’s quality standards
• Lead mentor and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning
• Grow and develop a teamof engineers, sharing best practices, resolving blockers, and making Worldscape the best place to work
• Innovate and optimize features for performance and reliability.
• Ensure seamless collaboration between internal and external teams.
• Contribute to the long-term vision and roadmap for the product and features.
• Triage, mitigate, and semantically resolve customer issues as well as instantiate a strong on-call culture.
• Drive a DevOps culture of supporting our customers, ownership of the platform and accountability to the service up time and health metrics.
• Hands-on technical lead, spending at least 50% of time actively coding and contributing to development

Professional Qualifications

• Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• 15+ years of experience in delivering technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Distributed Systems)
• Experience with shipping distributed cloud experiences across large scale software solutions
• 5+ years managing multiple projects or portfolio teams
• 3+ years of experience working in agile, fast-paced environments, navigating ambiguity, and facilitating impactful outcomes
• Hands-on experience developing full-stack solutions (C#, Java, Typescript ,React, Next.js, Typescript, Node.js)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in full stack development, from portal to all layers of the offerings.
• Master’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Experience with nsjail, Firecracker and MS Orleans preferred
• Experience with vector databases, semantic search, and prompt engineering
• Knowledge of reinforcement learning, planning algorithms, or multi-agent coordination
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse teams
• Experience in hiring full stack engineers, mentoring, setting up team culture, and collaboration.

Why Worldscape?

There is nothing more important to Worldscape than our culture. It is the fundamental means by which we will succeed as an organization. Talent, ability, drive, experience, knowledge cannot be maximized without first embracing the culture we espouse and will live every single day. Worldscape offers great benefits, opportunities for continued growth, and the ability to directly affect change in our organization and be part of a high-growth startup at a pivotal stage.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Attractive benefits package
• Flexible time off policy
• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• HSA health insurance options
• 401k plan
• Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance
• Fast paced environment with flexibility and ownership

Worldscape is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for performance-based bonuses and equity awards.