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# Lead Software Engineer - Factory Platform

- **Company:** Relativity Space, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $157,000.0 - $235,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, BigQuery, Software Quality, Computer Programming, Software Design Documents, Memory Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Test Data, TypeScript, Google Cloud, ReactJS, Backend, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Front End Software Development, Terraform, Multiplatform, Golang
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/119de52c-7016-4a6a-bd16-5aed7b28093c

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or higher in CS or a related engineering field
 * 5+ years of software engineering experience across multiple production systems
 * Proven track record hiring, retaining, and developing engineers
 * Expert in React and modern frontend tooling
 * Fluent in at least one backend language (Go, Python) and willing to range across the stack
 * Comfortable driving architectural decisions and building buy-in across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
 * Strong written and verbal communication - you can write a crisp design doc and also give useful, timely feedback to a struggling engineer

Nice to haves but not required:

 * 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead-manager role, with direct reports
 * Experience designing and scaling service architectures for high-performance frontend operations
 * Background in systems-level programming (synchronization, memory management)
 * Experience with low-latency or safety-critical software
 * History of shipping software across large, multi-platform codebases

## Description

As a Lead Software Engineer on the Factory Platform team, you'll combine hands-on technical leadership with direct people management. You'll own the full software development lifecycle for your squad - from concept and trade study through implementation, deployment, and iteration - while also being accountable for the growth, performance, and hiring of the engineers on your team.

 * Manage a team of software engineers: conduct 1:1s, write and deliver performance reviews, support career development, and drive hiring
 * Set and uphold engineering standards for your team: code quality, testing, deployment practices, incident response, and on-call culture
 * Lead architectural design and trade studies for new features and systems across planning, scheduling, purchasing, manufacturing operations, and test data tooling
 * Maintain meaningful individual contribution - you are expected to stay technically sharp and ship code, not just review it
 * Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (manufacturing, operations, propulsion, test & launch) to translate domain requirements into software
 * Mentor and grow engineers at all levels; identify gaps in the team and close them through coaching or hiring

Technologies we use:

 * Python, React, Typescript, Go
 * Iceberg, BigQuery, Duckdb, DBT, Postgres
 * AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes (both cloud and on-prem), Terraform, Helm


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