Lead Software Engineer - Fullstack (Java & React) (FY25|R&D|#6823)

Your opportunity

Are you a passionate and experienced fullstack engineer looking for an opportunity to lead and drive innovation in a dynamic team ? Join us on our company’s mission to empower every engineer at every stage of the software lifecycle.

This is your chance to shape the future of our systems, guiding a team of talented developers to build highly responsive, scalable and engaging applications across both frontend and backend technologies. As a lead software engineer specializing in fullstack development, you’ll be responsible for driving key projects and ensuring our systems are performant, secure and maintainable.

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.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable and high-performance web applications across the full stack using Java, Spring, GoLang, GraphQL, React, etc.
• 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 product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to transform business requirements into efficient and scalable technical solutions that meet the demands of our growing customer base
• Guide the development of user-facing features on the frontend, implementing responsive and intuitive UI Components.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, constantly researching and experimenting with innovative solutions to enhance our observability platform
• Ensure the quality of your team’s work through automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
• 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
• 7+ years of experience in full stack development with strong expertise in Java, GraphQL, Spring, Spring Boot, GoLang, React.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams including experience mentoring and coaching engineers.
• Hands on experience with building RESTful APIs microservices
• Strong understanding of backend frameworks, databases and microservices architecture.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor a team of software engineers, guiding them towards technical excellence, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality code
• Passion for exploring new technologies and finding creative solutions to complex problems, keeping up with industry trends and advancements in observability and related domains
• Excellent collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, present ideas, and communicate technical concepts clearly
  
  

Bonus points if you have

• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribution to open source projects
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience working on an Observability product, especially in the SaaS vendor space.
  
  

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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