Lead Software Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Farmington (NM); On-site; USD 108,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Technologies, based in Farmington, NM, seeks a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience to own a critical Rails rewrite and back-end services. You will turn on-call noise into meaningful alerts, prototype flexible Linux-based solutions, and mentor a lead cohort through Azure on-call duties.

The role emphasizes reliability, deep collaboration, and a bias for thoughtful questions before costly mistakes, with a compensation range of $108,000–$148,000 and a flexible schedule.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way.
• Bias toward asking the dumb question before the expensive mistake.
• Comfort being measured against a clear lead bar.
• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly.
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support lead teammates.
• Reliability that earns you the hard assignments.

Responsibilities

• Ship the Ruby on Rails self-directed rewrite that pays down years of technical debt.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Linux and Ruby on Rails.
• Turn Retail Technologies's Flask on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something.
• Translate a napkin idea from founders into a Linux genuinely-flexible prototype.
• Automate the manual Problem Solving chores that drain engineering hours.
• Own the Selenium subsystem that the team depends on.
• Mentor the lead cohort through their first real Microsoft Azure on-call at Retail Technologies.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Problem solving

Empathy

Teamwork

Communication

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Flask

Linux

Selenium

Azure

Job description

Retail Technologies builds quality-obsessed products used by teams worldwide, and we need a Lead Software Engineer to push our platform to the next level. Bring 9 years of technology experience to a $108,000 - $148,000 role built around ownership, teamwork, and growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship the Ruby on Rails self-directed rewrite that pays down years of Retail Technologies technical debt
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Linux and Ruby on Rails
• Turn Retail Technologies's Flask on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Translate a napkin idea from Retail Technologies founders into a Linux genuinely-flexible prototype
• Automate the manual Problem Solving chores that quietly drain Farmington, NM engineering hours
• Own the candidly-kind Selenium subsystem that the rest of Retail Technologies quietly depends on
• Mentor the lead cohort through their first real Microsoft Azure on-call at Retail Technologies

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way
• A bias toward asking the dumb question before the expensive mistake
• Comfort being measured against a clear lead bar
• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support lead teammates
• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments

We're Retail Technologies — a detail-loving Farmington, NM outfit that treats Flask less like a feature and more like a craft. The team trusts each other to do the right thing without constant oversight or micromanagement.

Start at $108,000 - $148,000 and watch the benefits, growth budget, and flexible scheduling do the heavy lifting on your work-life balance.

Active as of this moment, the Farmington, NM role accepts resumes daily.