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# Lead Software Engineer

- **Company:** Faros AI, Inc.
- **Location:** Redwood City, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Github, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Node.Js, NoSQL, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Web Services, Circleci, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Graphql, Data Pipelines, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/lead-software-engineer-backend-faros-8131098

## About the Role

* 5-8+ years with ownership of critical components or services

Technical Stack

 * Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript + Node.js and/or Python
 * Experience designing/consuming/implementing REST/GraphQL APIs
 * Experience with building & productionizing web services, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, orchestration frameworks
 * Strong database fundamentals (SQL/NoSQL)
 * CI/CD familiarity (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
 * Experience running production workloads including monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, traces, oncall
 * Security fundamentals

Cloud

 * Hands-on experience with one of more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP (certifications are a plus)

Collaboration & Communication

 * Comfortable working with distributed international teams
 * Strong ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders

English

 * English C1: able to participate in technical calls and write clear communication., * Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering, or equivalent real-world experience.

Nice-to-Haves

 * Experience with building & integrating with SaaS platforms
 * Experience with engineering analytics or developer-productivity tooling
 * Experience with IaC, containers, serverless, queues/event-driven architectures
 * Experience with security practices (authN/authZ, secrets management)
 * Familiarity with engineering metrics (DORA, code quality, delivery metrics)
 * Hands-on experience using coding agents (AI-assisted development)

## Description

We're looking for software engineers who want to build the future of engineering operations with us. This is a hands-on role. While you will drive architectural vision and mentor senior engineers, you will spend a significant portion of your time writing code, building core systems, and solving our most complex technical challenges., * Architect, build, and scale our highly scalable data infrastructure and core engineering platforms, owning the hardest technical problems from whiteboard design all the way through to production deployment.

 * Lead from the front by writing high-quality, resilient code, establishing architectural standards, and building best practices for backend services/APIs to ensure system-wide reliability, security, and scalability.
 * Act as a technical partner to product and engineering leadership, translating business strategy into technical roadmaps and mentoring other engineers.