Senior Software Engineer

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🕒 June 10

🏄 California, Illinois, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $124.8k - $183.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Billy Goat Group

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1 - 10 employees

Advertising • Marketing

Billy Goat Group is a company specializing in targeted advertising services. They offer solutions to place advertisements on the mobile phones of potential customers who visit competitors or other strategic locations. Billy Goat Group boasts quick and cost-effective advertising solutions compared to traditional PPC or SEO methods, focusing on direct access to desired clients and efficient tracking from ad view to business entry. Their expertise spans various industries, including automotive repair, home builders, pet food stores, gyms, and more, ensuring exclusive campaigns for top businesses without conflicts of interest.

📋 Description

• Lead backend architecture and system design, proactively proposing and driving new systems that support critical customer facing features • Take point on initiatives, owning the backend roadmap, driving technical decisions, and coordinating cross-functional delivery • Optimize existing systems for performance, reliability, and cost. You treat production health as a first-class priority, not an afterthought • Serve as the team's technical anchor: set engineering standards, lead design reviews, unblock teammates • Manage technical roadmap and problems of significantly larger scope, from formulating an efficient game plan to delivering stable, well-tested features on time • Make technical recommendations that improve the codebase while minimizing risk; identify and fix (or ideally prevent) bugs and performance bottlenecks • Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across engineering, product, and design teams • Leverage AI coding tools (Claude, Codex, etc.) to accelerate development velocity for yourself and the team

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend / distributed systems • Proven track record of leading a team to execute and ship features, you've been the tech lead others rely on • Strong proficiency in Go, Python, Ruby, or similar backend languages/frameworks • Hands-on experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems that handle real-world traffic at scale • Proficient with AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Codex, Copilot, etc.) and a believer in using them to multiply team output • A T-shaped engineer / generalist mindset with deep expertise in at least one domain (e.g., API design, data pipelines, event-driven architectures, infrastructure) • A proactive ownership mentality, you don't wait for permission to improve things; you identify problems, propose solutions, and execute • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, handling conflict constructively, and building consensus across teams with competing priorities • Familiarity with the technologies, tradeoffs, and design patterns emerging in modern web services and cloud-native architectures • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401K • paid time off • dental • medical • vision • disability • life insurance options