Lead Software Development Engineer

NextGenEnergyJobs; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% healthcare coverage

Transportation subsidies

Snacks and comfortable workspace

Self-managed PTO

In-person and remote events

Job summary

Amperity is seeking a senior engineering leader to join Loom, the largest team at Amperity, responsible for shaping and delivering on complex, high-scale systems. The role emphasizes migrating platforms, driving architectural transitions, and delivering fast, evidence-based value.

You will work closely with Product to translate engineering realities into clear options and plans, while guiding teams to responsibly manage technical debt and explore AI-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

• Must thrive in complex, high-ownership environments.
• Experience building/evolving high-scale software systems.
• Experience leading platform migrations or architectural transitions.
• Able to distinguish common solutions from unique problems and apply the right approach.

Skills

High-scale systems

Platform migrations

AI tooling

Ambiguity decision-making

Distributed systems

Roadmap collaboration

Technical debt reading

Customer-first mindset

Value delivery speed

Cloud-native

Job description

You'll join Loom, the largest team at Amperity and the one at the heart of the platform.

Requirements

• You know how to operate in a complex, high-ownership environment. You don't need everything to be greenfield. You excel when you can assess a system honestly, identify what's holding the team back, and build a credible path forward.
• 9+ years building and evolving complex, high-scale software systems.
• Experience leading platform migrations or major architectural transitions (streaming experience a strong plus).
• You can distinguish between problems that have well-trodden solutions from those that are genuinely unique, and the discipline to apply the former quickly so the team can focus on the latter.
• Fluent in the capabilities of AI tooling, while balancing its limitations. You also help raise the AI fluency of the engineers around you through different means, including pairing, design reviews, and setting a high bar for where and how it gets applied.
• A track record of fast value delivery: shipping high-quality work, iterating based on evidence, and making confident decisions through ambiguity.
• Comfortable inheriting large, imperfect codebases. You can read technical debt, communicate it with partners, and make principled calls about when to sustain it and when to address it.
• Customer-first thinking where you start with the value you deliver, not the implementation, and that shapes how you scope and sequence work.
• Technical depth in distributed systems, data-intensive architectures, or cloud-native infrastructure.
• A genuine partner to Product in roadmap planning which translates engineering realities into clear options. This partner also advocates for the right technical investments and helps shape a forward-looking plan. The plan maps what we build to where the business is going.

We offer all the benefits you'd expect from a great place to work: 100% employee healthcare coverage, transportation subsidies, a comfortable work environment with plenty of snacks, and other employee experience perks like events and activities, both in-person and remote. We also offer self-managed PTO and the flexibility to do your best work in the way that works for you. We provide an inclusive environment where you'll be challenged to find and unlock your full potential, surrounded by a team of world-class people driving for excellence. For more details on our benefits, please see our US Benefits & Perks Guide .