Lead Software Engineer (Editor)
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JobgetherEcommerce software
Based in NetherlandsFull-TimeLead
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 1–2 years in a technical lead or de facto lead capacity
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerNode.jsPHPTypeScriptRedisGitHub Actions
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- At least 1–2 years in a technical lead or de facto lead capacity, owning technical direction for a team.
- Strong hands-on software engineering background and experience building consumer-facing web products at scale.
- Experience with complex page builders, website or funnel editors, WYSIWYG tools, or similarly sophisticated visual editing products is strongly preferred.
- Proven experience shipping AI-powered product features beyond using AI coding assistants.
- Experience working directly with Product Managers on roadmap development, feature definition, prioritization, and product strategy.
- Comfort serving as the primary escalation point for production incidents and technical issues within a product area.
- Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js, and ability to work with PHP 7.4/8+ and Laravel during an existing-system transition.
- Familiarity with MariaDB, Redis, AWS services including EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, and S3, as well as Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- Strong understanding of testing, code quality, technical risk management, and production reliability.
- Hands-on daily experience with AI coding tools and judgment to distinguish productive AI-assisted workflows from those that create engineering overhead.
- Ability to balance hands-on individual contribution with team leadership, mentoring, prioritization, and delivery ownership.
Responsibilities
- Own the editor’s technical direction and develop AI-powered capabilities such as content generation, layout suggestions, content assistance, and personalization.
- Lead Editor 2.0 delivery through sprint planning, task breakdown, prioritization, progress tracking, and blocker resolution.
- Take on critical-path engineering work and ensure important features reach production.
- Maintain standards for code reviews, technical decisions, testing, maintainability, and engineering quality.
- Own incident response and production health for the editor, serving as the primary escalation point for product-area issues.
- Partner with Product to define roadmap priorities and feature opportunities.
- Evaluate AI product ideas against user workflows and conversion objectives, and define what the system should generate, suggest, automate, or leave under user control.
- Use AI coding tools and establish team practices that keep AI-assisted work understood, reviewed, tested, and maintainable.
- Write unit and integration tests and identify edge cases and risks during planning.
- Mentor engineers and support their technical growth.
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