Staff Software Developer, Backend

September 4

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Leap Tools

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AR/VR • eCommerce • Retail

Leap Tools is a company specializing in augmented reality (AR) technology, offering innovative tools designed to enhance sales and consumer experiences. Their mission is to beautify spaces by making it faster and easier for consumers to realize their vision through their room visualizer, Roomvo. Leap Tools partners with both local retailers and global brands to bring unprecedented realism to room visualization, striving to impact the home decor industry significantly.

51 - 200 employees

🥽 AR/VR

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

📋 Description

• Drive the design, architecture, and delivery of complex backend systems that enable 3D and computer vision experiences at scale. • Lead the development of mission-critical APIs, data pipelines, and services that support high-traffic applications used globally. • Partner with product and engineering leadership to define technical direction, identify foundational investments, and plan for scale and performance. • Serve as a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers, conducting architecture reviews, and enabling high-quality, high-velocity development across teams. • Champion engineering excellence and set the technical bar for backend systems in terms of scalability, resiliency, observability, and maintainability. • Lead cross-functional initiatives that span multiple teams and stakeholders across the business. • Help shape the long-term technical vision and culture of the engineering organization. • Influence hiring, onboarding, and growth strategies to ensure a strong and healthy team over time.

🎯 Requirements

• Passion for solving complex problems and working on products used by millions of people. • 8+ years of software development experience building and operating scalable, reliable systems in production environments. • Strong experience with complex ETL flows and high-throughput systems is highly preferred. • Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, networking, databases). • Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems focusing on performance, observability, and fault tolerance. • Strong architectural instincts and the ability to make high-leverage technical decisions that impact multiple teams and systems. • Demonstrated ability to influence and mentor senior engineers, guide teams through ambiguity, and elevate engineering practices across the board. • Exceptional ownership mindset — you drive initiatives forward, raise the bar, and deliver lasting impact. • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-autonomy, product-driven environment. • Experience with e-commerce and catalog management is preferred. • Familiarity with our stack (Python, Django, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, AWS) is strongly preferred, but deep expertise in analogous systems and a willingness to learn are welcome.

🏖️ Benefits

• We're a remote-first company that encourages our employees to work from where they're most productive. • We value work-life balance by offering generous time off • Work anywhere in the world for up to 3 months! • We value families, by offering a parental leave program • We offer a work-from-home stipend • Your birthday (and our company's birthday) is a day off!