Lead Software Engineer, Backend

About Found
Found is a modern weight care platform pioneering integrated support through personalized coaching, online community, and if indicated, prescription medication. We believe that weight care is complex and goes beyond having the willpower to eat less and move more. We believe in the power of biology, genetics, sleep, stress, mental health and daily habits and we work with each factor to achieve long-lasting results. Our goals are to address the long-term risks associated with ineffective weight management, to reimagine the narrow and outdated cultural narrative around weight, and to empower our community with tools that will help them find self-acceptance and add years to their lives. We believe it’s not just what you’ve lost, it’s what you’ve Found.
About The Role
We are looking for a software engineering leader for the Consumer Experience team here at Found. The Consumer Experience team is tasked with developing and maintaining all aspects of the surfaces our customers interact with every day. This is an IC full stack role which will be in charge of making sure our systems and architectures are built with a bias for velocity and iteration. That means knowing the balance between delivering value quickly while keeping an eye on the horizon of where our systems eventually need to end up.
What you'll do

• Work with the product team to design, implement, track, and scale our consumer experience
• Work with the product, operations, behavioral health and marketing teams to influence and shape our product strategy and roadmap
• Write the code! This role is primarily hands on and will be in the code the vast majority of their day
• Work with the Consumer Experience engineering manager and product manager to build architecture plans that are iterative in nature and keep the balance between delivering delivering delightful experiences quickly while planning for long term scale
• Help build and contribute to a high-performance engineering culture

What you bring

• Previous experience working as an engineering lead or senior engineer with expertise in owning large scale systems
• Strong knowledge of how to design distributed systems and break apart architectures into iterative blocks instead of large waterfall projects
• An instinctive desire to write quality code, the humility to understand and improve existing code, and the judgment to make tradeoffs between elegance and efficiency
• Passion for working in a rapidly growing business with curiosity, humility, humor, and professionalism
• Experience working cross-functionally with other engineers, product managers, and designers
• Previous experience working as a technical mentor to other engineers
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience working fullstack across web and mobile applications with an emphasis on backend systems