Lead Software Engineer

🔥 17 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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SteelSeries

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51 - 200 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

💰 Venture Round on 2012-08

Manufacturing • Logistics • Consulting

SteelSeries is a global leader in the gaming and esports industry, known for producing award-winning, cutting-edge products that assist gamers in their pursuit of excellence. The company specializes in computer gaming peripherals, including gaming audio, hardware for consoles, PCs, and mobile devices, as well as other gaming accessories. SteelSeries has a rich history in esports and gaming, having been the pioneer of various gaming innovations, such as the first mechanical gaming keyboard and dedicated gaming headsets, and continues to support top esports teams.

📋 Description

• Work closely with our hardware and software product teams to ensure our products are designed and engineered to deliver a best-in-class web experience for our gamers. • Get up to speed with our tech stack. Our new web application is written in React and deployed in AWS using containers. • Ship a new feature in our cloud platform. • Evaluate the architecture of our cloud platform, suggest potential areas for refactoring, and work with product management and engineering to plan any desired changes. • Assist product in defining the quarterly roadmap of work for the cloud platform team. • Continue to innovate and add features to our web-based experiences for gamers. • Play with and give feedback on unannounced hardware products coming out next year. • Work closely with our hardware and software product teams to align on the vision for our upcoming products. • Help define hardware and web APIs to ensure our apps can seamlessly interact with our hardware and cloud services to provide an amazing user experience for our customers. • Proactively refactor code to achieve a perpetually clean design that has adequate test coverage. • Evaluate new programming languages, frameworks, and tools and propose when they should be integrated and/or migrated to. • Work across software teams to educate others on best practices for code, test, and documentation quality.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering • Experience building scalable cloud solutions including container orchestration, database design, and network infrastructure, and distributed systems design • Experience designing and building web back ends and web user interfaces • Demonstrated ability to build and operate reliable, high-availability cloud platforms with hands-on experience in observability (logging, tracing, monitoring) and resilience engineering • Proven experience leading a platform engineering team to deliver well documented and well tested cloud solutions. • Proficiency leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and drive engineering efficiency • A desire to mentor and elevate fellow engineers • Eagerness to continuously learn and excel in the craft of software engineering • Experience leading a team of software engineers to produce tested and well-documented software.

🏖️ Benefits

• 10% time (slack day) policy. Spend 1 day every two weeks learning a new skill, spiking out a new feature, taking a training course, or putting together a Lunch & Learn presentation for your colleagues. • Continuous education stipend. We are looking for engineers who continually want to learn and grow, and we will support them in their ongoing training. • Early access to SteelSeries gear such as headsets, keyboards, mice, and controllers. Test out and provide feedback on tons of SteelSeries devices before they hit the street. • Employee discount on all SteelSeries hardware. We’ll provide you with all the hardware you need, but the employee discount is nice for friends and family.