Lead Full-Stack Engineer (US)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Lead Full-Stack Engineer to provide technical leadership for a small team building a knowledge graph and ontology related to quantum computing and design, along with an interactive web application that enables users to explore and engage with the underlying information.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for a small engineering team, setting technical direction and supporting the team’s execution and delivery.
• Design, architect, build, and continuously improve a modern, interactive web application, including selecting appropriate frameworks, system architecture, and technical approaches.
• Lead architectural and product-related technical decisions, exercising independent judgment when evaluating tools, technologies, tradeoffs, and design patterns.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for software design, code quality, testing, documentation, security, and maintainability.
• Mentor and support other engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, collaborative problem-solving, and constructive feedback.
• Break complex initiatives into clear technical plans, coordinate engineering priorities, and help ensure projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.
• Independently analyze complex technical problems and develop scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Design and implement backend systems, data models, APIs, and integrations that support complex application functionality.
• Design and develop clean, intuitive user experiences for navigating and interacting with complex technical content.
• Integrate AI-enabled features such as intelligent search, recommendations, contextual assistance, and other emerging application capabilities.
• Collaborate with product, design, domain experts, and company leadership to translate business and user needs into practical technical solutions.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development tools, when they can meaningfully improve productivity, quality, or application performance.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience serving in a technical lead, engineering lead, or comparable software leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical direction, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and supporting the delivery of complex software projects.
• Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals, with particular depth in backend architecture, data modeling, APIs, and scalable system design.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining production-quality, user-facing web applications.
• Experience making architectural decisions and evaluating technical tradeoffs across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and application integrations.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled application workflows, tools, or integrations.
• Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and product usability, with the ability to translate complex information into intuitive user experiences.
• Absolute ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities, and deliver results with minimal oversight.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• An efficiency-focused mindset and willingness to adopt new tools, including AI-assisted development tools, to improve engineering productivity.
• Ability and enthusiasm to learn unfamiliar technical domains as needed; prior quantum computing experience is not required.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with data-intensive, graph-based, or visualization-heavy applications.
• Evidence of shipped products, professional work, or substantial personal projects.
• Strong communication skills and comfort articulating technical and design decisions.