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About the Role

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for a Lead Software Engineer focused on backend development. You will shape the technical direction for a critical platform capability, design systems, write code, review implementations, mentor engineers, and unblock the team on complex technical problems. You'll work on high-impact coordination with 3rd party vendors, data integration, and creating reliable, observable, and stable services.

Responsibilities

Shape the Architecture: Help define the technical vision, system boundaries, and architecture for services owned by the team.
Lead by Example: Be a hands-on technical leader who contributes directly to high-impact work through design, implementation, code review, debugging, and production support.
Help build new features: Design and implement patterns that make it easy to add new features.
Mentor & Guide Engineers: Provide day-to-day technical guidance, unblock engineers, review designs and code, and help raise the technical bar for the team.
Plan & Deliver: Partner with the Engineering Manager and Product to turn ambiguous goals into clear technical plans, milestones, and incremental delivery paths.
Partner Across the Platform: Collaborate closely with partner engineering teams to ensure clean integration with their work.
Drive Operational Excellence: Ensure integration services operate reliably at scale, using observability, metrics, traces, logs, alerts, and postmortems to continuously improve system quality.
Influence Technical Direction Broadly: Represent the integrations team in architecture discussions and help create alignment around technical patterns, dependencies, and platform interfaces.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and operating backend or platform systems in production.
Significant experience designing and operating distributed services.
Strong architectural judgment around stateful services, asynchronous processing, system reliability, and production operations.
Hands-on technical leadership experience: comfortable being the go-to person for unblocking, reviewing, mentoring, and leading complex technical initiatives end-to-end.
Experience translating ambiguous product goals into pragmatic technical designs and incremental execution plans.
Familiarity with building 3rd party integrations and their complexities.
Strong understanding of retries, idempotency, backoffs, rate limiting, handling partial failures, and external monitoring.
Experience building scalable backend services in cloud environments, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
A strong focus on operational excellence — building reliable systems with monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, incident response, and shared ownership of on-call responsibilities.
Clear communication skills and the ability to translate technical tradeoffs into practical decisions with Product, Design, engineering partners, and business stakeholders.
A collaborative, product-minded approach to platform engineering — balancing technical quality with customer value and delivery momentum.

Skills

Python
distributed services
stateful services
asynchronous processing
system reliability
production operations
3rd party integrations
retries
idempotency
backoffs
rate limiting
partial failures
external monitoring
cloud environments
Google Cloud Platform
monitoring
alerting
logging
tracing
incident response
on-call responsibilities

Location

New York City

Work Type

Backend Developer
Full-time

Experience Level

Lead
7+ years of professional software engineering experience

Salary/Compensations

$147,300-$192,000/year

Benefits

medical benefits
financial benefits
other benefits

About the Company

Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning.
The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility.
Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture where all Inkers can thrive.
Our differences bring a breadth of knowledge and perspectives that makes us collectively stronger.
We welcome and employ people regardless of race, color, gender identity or expression, religion, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ethnicity, family or marital status, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, disability, Veteran status, or other protected characteristics.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.