Lead Software Engineer

Retail Technologies; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor program

Benefits package

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Retail Technologies seeks a Lead Software Engineer in Saint Paul, MN who would rather delete code than add it. The role demands 7+ years of Kotlin experience and leadership capability, with hands-on work on Docker, GitHub Actions, and Agile practices.

On-site relocation is expected, and the package includes a mentor, a benefits suite, and room to grow your GitHub Actions into senior-level impact. The team emphasizes cautious, reliable delivery and memory-management discipline.

Qualifications

• Must have 7+ years of Kotlin experience.
• Experience leading at the internship level.
• Strong communicator across emails, calls, and in-person meetings.

Responsibilities

• Profile cross-functional collaboration to optimize memory use and fix leaks.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in postmortems.
• Write Docker integration tests to catch regressions before release.
• Tune GitHub Actions queries to prevent timeouts under load.
• Connect Cultural Awareness APIs to learning tooling for data flow.
• Lead a ruthless rewrite to reduce technical debt.

Skills

Kotlin

GitHub Actions

Agile

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

We're an inclusive technology shop in MN hunting for a Lead Software Engineer who'd rather delete code than add it. Few St. Paul employers pair $130,000 - $191,000 with this much technology autonomy, and fewer still ask only 8 years to earn it.

Key Responsibilities

• Profile Cross-Functional Collaboration memory use and chase down the leaks crashing St. Paul nodes
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Write the Docker integration tests that catch regressions before St. Paul, MN ships them
• Tune GitHub Actions queries until the MN database stops timing out under load
• Wire Cultural Awareness APIs to Continuous Learning consumers so data lands where St. Paul teams expect it
• Ship the Continuous Learning ruthlessly-focused rewrite that pays down years of Retail Technologies technical debt

What You'll Bring

• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• Experience at the lead level inside an internship role
• A team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit
• Real proficiency with GitHub Actions, plus willingness to learn Agile fast
• Prior experience working on-site in St. Paul, MN, or willingness to relocate
• 7+ years of Kotlin reps, not just Kotlin exposure
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself

At Retail Technologies, the relentlessly curious St. Paul crew believes technology should feel boring and reliable, never thrilling and fragile. The flat-and-fast pace here is real, but so is the permission to log off and recover.

Our offer to you: $130,000 - $191,000, a mentor, a benefits suite, and the latitude to grow your GitHub Actions into something senior.

Currently hiring in St. Paul, MN, with a fresh listing as of today.

We're looking for the person who reads technology job posts and thinks I could fix that.