Lead Software Engineer

• Lead architecture and engineering direction for scalable, resilient microservice platforms supporting delivery and order-awareness capabilities.
• Design, build, and maintain backend services using modern Java and Spring Boot.
• Guide API design, asynchronous workflows, event-driven integrations, and real-time processing solutions.
• Promote engineering best practices for code quality, testing, observability, resiliency, security, and performance.
• Design and operate cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, QA/QE, Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and engineering teams to turn business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across onshore and offshore teams.
• Mentor engineers, facilitate design discussions, and help teams make sound technical decisions.
• Review designs and pull requests to improve quality and consistency across codebases.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production issues across applications, cloud infrastructure, networking, messaging systems, and third-party integrations.
• Design reliable vendor and partner integrations with strong failure recovery, observability, security, and supportability.
• Reduce technical debt while balancing long-term architecture goals with delivery commitments.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture decisions, system diagrams, and operational guidance.
• Support production deployments, large-scale rollouts, and launch readiness for business-critical initiatives.

• Extensive software engineering experience, including Staff, Principal, Lead, or equivalent technical leadership experience.
• Advanced Java skills, preferably Java 21 or newer.
• Strong hands-on experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem.
• Deep understanding of microservices and distributed-system design, including service boundaries, domain-driven design, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, idempotency, resiliency, security, observability, high availability, and scalability.
• Strong experience designing cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Run or similar container platforms, Pub/Sub or similar messaging technologies, cloud networking, IAM, secret management, monitoring, logging, observability, and NoSQL or distributed data stores.
• Strong Terraform experience, including designing, reviewing, troubleshooting, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience operating production systems with high availability, scalability, latency, and resiliency requirements.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, containerization, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across distributed and offshore teams.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction without relying solely on authority.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with multiple initiatives and dependencies.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in QSR, restaurant technology, e-commerce fulfillment, logistics, last-mile delivery, or order-awareness platforms.
• Experience integrating with third-party delivery providers, logistics platforms, mapping or routing providers, or external SaaS platforms.
• Experience with real-time location tracking, dispatch, order lifecycle, driver workflows, or delivery-status processing.
• Experience with high-throughput event-driven architectures using Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar technologies.
• Experience with multi-region or active-active cloud architectures.
• Experience applying distributed-system resiliency patterns such as graceful degradation, retries, circuit breakers, idempotency, and dead-letter handling.
• Experience with device telemetry, IoT platforms, real-time tracking systems, embedded systems, firmware, or C/C++ is a plus.
• Experience integrating cloud services with IoT or embedded devices, including telemetry, device provisioning, OTA firmware updates, or cellular-connected devices, is a plus.