Lead Software Development Engineer

About the position

At Amperity, engineers work in small, collaborative feature teams. As an SDE IV, you'll contribute across teams that move quickly, embracing rapid, iterative development to solve meaningful customer problems and improve the platform. Engineers are involved in shaping what we build and how we build it, working with Product, Support, Customer Success, and Go-to-Market teams to create high-impact features and seamless customer experiences. We keep our processes lightweight, our communication clear, and our focus on delivering value.

Responsibilities

• Process and understand large volumes of structured and unstructured customer, product, and event data.
• Build full-stack experiences and intuitive toolsets that help users visualize their data, understand their customers, and surface impactful insights.
• Apply the latest data science and AI advancements to accelerate time-to-value for data developers and marketers.
• Integrate our platform into the operating core of the businesses we serve.
• Rethink how marketers and customer teams activate and use data to accomplish measurable outcomes.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience building and evolving complex, high-scale software systems.
• Technical leadership experience driving major features or platform evolution across multiple teams.
• Expertise in designing distributed systems, data-intensive applications, or cloud-native architectures.
• Elegant coding skills with well thought out system design capabilities.
• Comfortable working in functional languages like Clojure.
• Experience aligning technical strategy with our priorities and customer needs.
• Desire to mentor engineers, improving teams, and improving how we build.

Benefits

• 100% employee healthcare coverage
• Transportation subsidies
• Comfortable work environment with plenty of snacks
• Self-managed PTO
• Flexibility to do your best work
• Inclusive environment with opportunities for personal growth