Lead Software Engineer - Universal Search

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer - Universal Search to lead the next phase of our 3rd party search and data integration platform at Mark43. The ideal candidate will own some of the most complex and impactful technical initiatives within the Universal Search domain.

Responsibilities

• Led the technical design and execution of a major expansion of the universal search platform across RMS, CAD, analytics, and adjacent product surfaces, aligning multiple teams on architecture, sequencing, and long-term scalability.
• Defined extensibility patterns and integration approaches for onboarding new internal and third-party data sources, balancing speed of delivery with maintainability, security, and operational excellence.
• Reviewed and elevated designs and pull requests across authorization, index mappings, query paths, and service contracts, giving clear, high-leverage feedback that improved performance, resilience, and developer productivity.
• Caordinated a complex release across multiple services and stakeholders, proactively managing risks, dependencies, and rollout strategy to deliver safely with minimal customer impact.
• Owned the end-to-end delivery of a permission-aware global search capability, driving decisions from discovery and technical design through implementation, launch, observability, and iterative improvement.
• Mentored engineers across the team, coached teammates through ambiguous technical decisions, and actively raised the technical bar on system design, testing strategy, and maintainable code.
• Participated in on-call and support escalation, diagnosed a spike in failed search queries, led Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and drove follow-up improvements to instrumentation, alerting, support readiness, and operational playbooks.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Java with deep backend engineering experience, along with full-stack skills in React and TypeScript, and a proven track record of writing production-ready, well-tested, maintainable code.
• Experience designing and integrating with third-party and internal systems to support search and data access across multiple product domains.
• Experience with event-driven architectures using tools such as Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis, including designing for resilience, observability, and iterative evolution.
• Strong experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, ECS/EKS, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Demonstrated ability to use modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted development workflows where appropriate, to improve delivery velocity while preserving quality, security, and maintainability.
• Strong understanding of indexing strategies, document and schema design, query optimization, and search relevance tradeoffs at scale.
• Comfort leading delivery in CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code environments within a serverless-first, microservices-based architecture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders across a division.
• Track record of leading large projects involving multiple engineers, proactively identifying dependencies, managing ambiguity, and delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Proven mentorship and technical leadership; recognized as a go-to engineer for complex debugging, design reviews, and raising engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
• Must not require sponsorship or assistance with obtaining an employment visa.

Skills

• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of security best practices around authorization, data access, auditability, and query governance.
• Ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Health insurance coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Employee resource groups.

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Fully remote position.

Contact

To apply, please email recruiting@Mark43.com.

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