Software Engineering Lead

25Eight LLC

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San Francisco, CA, us on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 20, 2025 Last posted March 20, 2025
Job description

We’ve built a fundamental model for complex financial transactions and powerful workflow tools to help investors, companies, and lawyers complete financing deals. We’re already working with the top law firms in the world and have a set of influential investors backing and supporting us as we bring clarity and efficiency to the financial world.

The company was co-founded and backed by Joe Lonsdale of Palantir, Addepar, and 8VC. We have offices in San Francisco and Asia, staffed with engineers, product leaders, and business people from prestigious US schools and tech companies.

Our client is looking for a Marketing Communications Expert who will work cross-functionally with Business Development, Content Marketing, and Research to accomplish our marketing objectives. These include positioning our products, running product launches, educating the Business Development team, evangelizing the products and onboarding customers.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer who will lead by example, write great code, solve difficult problems, set a high bar for the entire team, and help the team achieve excellence. You will build high quality, architecturally-sound systems that will forever change how people engage with mortgages. You will think globally when designing and building the LendingHome platform, ensuring the architecture is evolving in the right long term direction while bringing value to customers daily.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for making a positive difference, solving complex problems efficiently using technology, constantly learning as well as teaching, and a strong background in building best-in-class large-scale SaaS or consumer applications.

You Will:

  • Design, create and own major pieces of the LendingHome platform and customer-facing features

  • Work across the full stack--from the backend all the way to the presentation layer

  • Lead by example and produce high-quality code that establishes coding standards and best practices for the team

  • Provide technical mentorship to engineers across our organization

  • Be responsible for software architecture, including determination of current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, selection of new concepts and methodology, and development of major components

  • Create technical requirements, software design specifications, and other forms of architectural documentation

  • Participate in code reviews

  • Investigate and resolve application issues, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies

  • Be a strong partner to Product Managers, UX Designers, and other functions

  • Effectively communicate technical and business risks to stakeholders

  • Deliver high-quality work on tight schedules

Requirements

  • BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of leading large-scale, high availability, and fault tolerant SaaS or consumer applications

  • 2+ years of experience as a software development lead, including optimizing short-term execution while planning for long-term technical capabilities

  • Extensive experience with service-oriented architectures, design patterns, web services, and web applications development

  • Demonstrated experience with database design, queueing, caching, containers, APIs, security and the operational aspects of running large systems

  • Strong experience in agile and test-driven methodologies

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Points:

  • Professional experience with Ruby on Rails

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines

About this role

Summary

Lead software development, design architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver high-quality SaaS applications.

Job title

Software Engineering Lead

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

San Francisco, CA, remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

software engineeringarchitectureweb servicesdatabase designagile

Preferred skills

ruby on rails

Specializations

large-scale systemssaasweb applicationsservice-oriented architecturescloud
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Francisco, CA, USA

On-site City