Lead Software Engineer

Renaissance Technologies, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid family leave

Mentors invested in your success

Clear promotion ladder

Job summary

Renaissance Technologies in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own technology outcomes and guide a skilled team. You will drive architecture, partner across engineering and product, and ship reliable systems in a hands-on leadership role.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in Spring Boot, experience with Laravel and Kubernetes, and a proven ability to negotiate tradeoffs with executive stakeholders. You’ll mentor peers, improve code quality, and own critical platforms end-to-end.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Spring Boot experience.
• Strong negotiation and relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency with Laravel and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication and ability to discuss tech with execs.
• Curiosity and continuous drive to improve craft.
• Hands-on software engineering with ability to handle follow-up questions.
• Ability to pair-program and work across teams in Santa Clara, CA.

Responsibilities

• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable acceptance criteria.
• Explain negotiation tradeoffs to executives in relatable terms.
• Pair-program challenging edge cases with engineers across Santa Clara, CA.
• Maintain dependencies and patch CVEs in production pipelines.
• Evaluate and improve Laravel patterns for cleaner architectures.
• Ensure code quality via linting, tests, and static analysis.
• Bridge Laravel and Spring Boot in pipelines for scalable deployments.

Skills

Spring Boot

Negotiation

Relationship Building

Laravel

Kubernetes

Communication

Curiosity

Tools

Spring Boot

Laravel

Kubernetes

Job description

Code that ships to millions starts as a pull request on someone's screen, and at Renaissance Technologies we want that someone to be our next Lead Software Engineer. The pitch is honest — $175,000 - $267,000, real ownership of technology outcomes, and a Renaissance Technologies crew in Santa Clara that has your back.

Key Responsibilities

• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Relationship Building acceptance criteria
• Walk technology stakeholders through Negotiation tradeoffs in language Renaissance Technologies execs grasp
• Pair-program tricky Negotiation edge cases with engineers across Santa Clara, CA
• Keep Renaissance Technologies's Negotiation dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Question the boldly-pragmatic Laravel pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis
• Pair Laravel and Spring Boot in a pipeline Renaissance Technologies can extend without your help later

What You'll Bring

• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
• 8+ years of Spring Boot reps, not just Spring Boot exposure
• A knack for Negotiation that colleagues quietly come to rely on
• Solid Relationship Building grounding, plus Laravel you can pick up on the fly
• Curiosity and a continuous drive to sharpen your technology craft
• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal

What began as two engineers and a whiteboard in Santa Clara is now Renaissance Technologies, an empathy-led team obsessed with getting Kubernetes right. Trust is the default setting at Renaissance Technologies; you have to actively spend it to lose it.

Joining us means $175,000 - $267,000, a clear promotion ladder, paid family leave, and mentors invested in your success.

Live in Santa Clara, CA as of this hour, with reviews ongoing.