Lead Software Engineer - #7353

Your opportunity

If you are driven by innovation, passionate about technical excellence, and ready to lead a team of exceptional engineers, apply now for the position of Lead Software Engineer at New Relic. Let's embark on an exciting journey of innovation and technical advancements together!

At New Relic, we provide businesses with a state-of-the-art observability platform, leveraging advanced technologies to deliver real-time insights into the performance of software applications and infrastructure. As a company at the forefront of the industry, we enable organizations to monitor, analyze, and optimize their systems to achieve enhanced reliability, performance, and user experience. Join us in our mission to revolutionize observability and empower businesses in today's dynamic digital landscape

The team is focused on building products that bring the power of observability to industry verticals such as Videos, Advertisements, Gaming , Healthcare and ECommerce. This role requires experience in a broad range of technological areas with a strong aptitude to learn new technologies and design systems using those on the fly. The ideal candidate for this position is not constrained by technological boundaries and definitions such as front-end, back-end. They are driven to solve problems using new technologies and lead the team in doing so.

What You'll Do

• Drive the design, development, and enhancement of core features and functionalities of our observability platform, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver scalable and reliable solutions
• Act as a subject matter expert, guiding and mentoring a team of talented software engineers to achieve technical excellence and deliver high-quality code
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement robust, scalable, and efficient systems that meet the demands of our growing customer base
• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, constantly researching and experimenting with innovative solutions to enhance our observability platform
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, advocating for best practices and promoting a collaborative work environment
• Be proactive in identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, applying optimizations, and maintaining the stability and availability of our platform
• Encourage a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and innovation within the engineering team, sharing knowledge and promoting professional growth
  
  

This role requires

• Bachelor’s degree, software development, engineering, or a related technical field
• Passion for exploring new technologies and finding creative solutions to complex problems, keeping up with industry trends and advancements in observability and related domains
• Experience working as a software engineer in both front end and back end technologies and ability to switch stacks as per project requirements.
• Experience working in technologies such as Node, Javascript, Java, React Native. Experience working with Android , iOS, BrightScript is a bonus.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale software systems, utilizing modern programming languages and frameworks
• Proven ability to lead and mentor a team of software engineers, guiding them towards technical excellence, and ensuring timely delivery of projects amidst ambiguity with the highest quality across different technologies and stacks.
• Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems and microservices architecture, with the ability to design and implement solutions that meet performance and scalability requirements
• Excellent collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, present ideas, and communicate technical concepts clearly
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to represent the work of the team to stakeholders. Ability to write crisp design documents.
• Keep up to date with technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, among others
  
  

Bonus points if you have

• Work experience working in technologies such as Video, Advertisements, Streaming and Gaming
• Exposure to building and developing systems using AI
  
  

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to resume@newrelic.com.

We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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