Lead Software Engineer

Egreenservices; Loveland (CO); On-site; USD 133,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Career growth

Job summary

Retail Excellence Corp in Loveland, CO is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to keep our data platform fast and resilient. You will mentor teammates, own backend services in Ruby, and guide features from whiteboard to production in Loveland, CO.

You will collaborate with product, QA, and design to ship end-to-end, design observability, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across CO teams. A strong balance of technical excellence and pragmatic judgment is expected.

Qualifications

• Mentor or support lead teammates.
• Manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.
• Working knowledge of Kafka and transferable decision making.
• The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire.

Responsibilities

• Stand up observability so stakeholders see failures before customers.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Ruby.
• Carry features from whiteboard sketches to Loveland production.
• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions.
• Collaborate with product and design to ship features end-to-end.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across Colorado teams.
• Sketch Kafka sequence diagrams to clarify data flows.

Skills

Mentor teammates

Prioritization

Kafka knowledge

Decision making

Tools

Ruby

Kafka

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Our platform processes enormous volumes of data, and we need a Lead Software Engineer who can keep it fast and resilient. The bargain is plain — your 8 years and Linux for $133,000 - $199,000, plus a technology team that hands over the reins.

Key Responsibilities

• Stand up observability so Retail Excellence Corp sees failures before customers in CO do
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Ruby and Organization
• Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Loveland, CO production without dropping the baton
• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early
• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across CO engineering teams
• Sketch Kafka sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support lead teammates
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines
• Working knowledge of Kafka alongside transferable Decision Making chops
• The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire

Retail Excellence Corp is a joyfully-rigorous company in Loveland, CO that turns complex technology problems into simple, elegant solutions. We keep the part-time workload sustainable so your best Ruby work isn't your last gasp.

We offer a competitive salary of $133,000 - $199,000, comprehensive health coverage, and a clear path to grow into senior technology work.

Re-confirmed open this morning, the lead seat at Retail Excellence Corp stays available.