Lead Software Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Santa Ana (CA); Hybrid; USD 178,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Santa Ana office

Generous PTO

Job summary

StartupPlus Inc in Santa Ana, CA seeks a Lead Software Engineer to elevate Selenium-based systems from fragile to bulletproof. The role offers a competitive salary of $178,000–$262,000, a hybrid Santa Ana office, generous PTO, and leaders who prioritize your development.

You will scale GitLab CI services across CA, refactor critical modules, tune queries, and drive resilient, data-informed decisions while mentoring teams and shipping high-impact software.

Qualifications

• Ownership mindset for company finances.
• Ability to translate data into clear recommendations.
• Collaborative, share credit and absorb blame.
• Curiosity and drive to sharpen your technology craft.
• A point of view held loosely but well-defended.
• Outcome-focused problem-solving without waiting for permission.

Responsibilities

• Scale GitLab CI services from Santa Ana pilot to CA-wide rollout.
• Refactor the technology module to improve stability.
• Tune Empathy queries to reduce CA database timeouts under load.
• Pull resilience telemetry into dashboards leaders actually use.
• Pair leadership and unit testing in a pipeline that can be extended later.
• Push PostgreSQL changes safely behind flags for quick Santa Ana rollbacks.

Skills

Ownership mindset

Data interpretation

Collaboration

Curiosity

Communication

Problem-solving

Tools

GitLab CI

PostgreSQL

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Trade your current backlog for ours: StartupPlus Inc needs a Lead Software Engineer in Santa Ana, CA to take Selenium systems from fragile to bulletproof. Step into a Lead Software Engineer position at StartupPlus Inc where $178,000 - $262,000, team support, and career growth come standard.

Key Responsibilities

• Scale StartupPlus Inc's GitLab CI services from Santa Ana pilot to CA-wide rollout
• Refactor the technology module StartupPlus Inc has been afraid to touch
• Tune Empathy queries until the CA database stops timing out under load
• Pull Resilience telemetry into dashboards StartupPlus Inc leaders actually open
• Pair Leadership and Unit Testing in a pipeline StartupPlus Inc can extend without your help later
• Push PostgreSQL changes safely behind flags so Santa Ana, CA rollbacks take seconds

What You'll Bring

• The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
• Comfort interpreting data and translating findings into clear recommendations
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• Curiosity and a continuous drive to sharpen your technology craft
• A point of view, held loosely and defended well
• Outcome-focused problem-solving that doesn't wait for permission

StartupPlus Inc builds the unglamorous technology plumbing that Santa Ana, CA relies on, and it does so with thoughtfully-bold pride. We look out for one another, and burnout is treated as a problem to solve, not a badge to wear.

Expect $178,000 - $262,000, a hybrid Santa Ana office, generous PTO, and leaders who treat your development as a real priority.