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# Lead Software Engineer

- **Company:** BDO
- **Location:** Pearl City, HI, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Code Coverage, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Fault Tolerance, Monitoring of Systems, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ruby
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_f080aad63187a23b9d10167e8a50707d

## About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who thrives on solving hard problems with MySQL and Attention Management. This remote job at BDO delivers $174,000 - $263,000, hands-on ownership, and a clear ladder for technology professionals., * A track record of clarity-seeking delivery in a remote structure

 * Working understanding of both Attention Management and Ruby in real-world settings
 * Detail-oriented approach with a commitment to accuracy
 * An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes
 * Prior experience working on-site in Pearl City, HI, or willingness to relocate
 * 7 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it
 * Comfort being accountable for a heads-down-and-happy outcome in a remote role

## Description

* Pull BDO's Swift stack out of the HI region before the migration deadline
 * Watch PostgreSQL error budgets and pump the brakes before Pearl City, HI burns through them
 * Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early
 * Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging MySQL and Elasticsearch
 * Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
 * Monitor system health and set up alerting for learning-obsessed production environments
 * Sit with technology users in Pearl City to learn what the Elasticsearch tool really needs