Lead Software Engineer

gmrmarketing; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation

Personal days

Holidays

Disability insurance

Life insurance

FSA

HSA

Job summary

gmrmarketing is seeking a senior engineering leader to set technical direction and deliver AI-powered software products and internal tools. You will combine hands-on engineering leadership with architectural decisions and collaborate across teams to identify practical problems worth solving.

You will mentor engineers, shape AI system design with foundation models and retrieval-augmented generation, and establish reusable workflows and coding standards.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping end-to-end software products and translating ambiguous goals into delivered systems.
• Ability to set architecture direction, make trade-offs, and guide a team through implementation.
• Strong technical judgment around AI tools and features, including evaluation, cost, and risk considerations.
• Experience raising engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and reusable standards.
• Ability to communicate technical constraints and risks in terms of business impact, timing, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Take initiatives from loosely defined business needs through architecture, implementation, and production release.
• Shape AI system design with engineering leadership, including work involving managed foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent patterns, evaluation, and production safeguards.
• Establish effective practices for AI-assisted development, including reusable workflows, coding standards, and review controls for generated code.
• Mentor engineers through pairing and code review, and turn lessons into standards the team can apply consistently.
• Lead system design and code reviews, assess technical risks and costs, and contribute to build-versus-buy decisions.
• Work with product and operational teams to understand their workflows and deliver software or automations tied to measurable outcomes.

Job description

Role overview

Set technical direction and lead delivery for software products and internal tools, with a strong focus on applying AI to customer-facing products and business operations. The role combines hands-on engineering leadership, architecture decisions, and close work with teams across the organization to identify practical problems worth solving.

Responsibilities

• Take initiatives from loosely defined business needs through architecture, implementation, and production release.
• Shape AI system design with engineering leadership, including work involving managed foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent patterns, evaluation, and production safeguards.
• Establish effective practices for AI-assisted development, including reusable workflows, coding standards, and review controls for generated code.
• Mentor engineers through pairing and code review, and turn lessons into standards the team can apply consistently.
• Lead system design and code reviews, assess technical risks and costs, and contribute to build-versus-buy decisions.
• Work with product and operational teams to understand their workflows and deliver software or automations tied to measurable outcomes.

Requirements

• Experience shipping end-to-end software products and translating ambiguous goals into delivered systems.
• Ability to set architecture direction, make trade-offs, and guide a team through implementation.
• Strong technical judgment around AI tools and features, including evaluation, cost, and risk considerations.
• Experience raising engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and reusable standards.
• Ability to communicate technical constraints and risks in terms of business impact, timing, and cost.
• Collaborative approach to working with engineering, product, and operational stakeholders.

Benefits and work setup

• Listed annual salary range is $140,000–$160,000, depending on experience.
• Benefits include health, vision, and dental insurance; a 401(k); employee stock purchase plan; paid vacation, personal days, and holidays; and disability, life, FSA, and HSA plans, subject to plan terms.