Senior Software Engineer (Dev Lead)
Company: Applause
Location: Location not specified (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-02-20
About this role
The Senior Back-end Engineer will have the opportunity to work directly with our Lead Developer & Co-Founder, building many new features and architecting new back-end tools and conventions for other engineers to use. They will also be responsible for overseeing a Pod structure that eventually will include a designated PM and support engineers.
Responsibilities:
- You should spend 80% of your time shipping a lot of back-end code, owning, building, and releasing a lot of new features and feature updates. Do this quickly, with high quality, and by the due date of an aggressive product roadmap (e.g., 90% + released on time).
- Ensure code meets Applause’s high engineering standards, and that it still works with 10x more usage.
- Working closely with the product team, you will lead out and own the design and architecture of new features/sub-systems on a per-project basis.
- You will take ownership of the development side of a release from start to finish. This includes presenting and proposing multiple solutions for a given problem, determining the optimal solution based on requirements and constraints, delegating tasks to other developers on the project, assisting other developers during feature development, and building out and delivering on your own code tasks.
### Requirements
- 7-12 years of experience as a back-end engineer
- 3-5 years of experience serving in a dev lead or similar role
- 5-10 years experience w/ Node as your primary environment
- Aptitude and willingness to quickly learn established conventions
- Very high standards for code quality
- Passionate about programming with a strong history of shipping a lot of features in a short timeline
- Very effective in a remote-work environment
### Benefits
100% remote w/ no office mandate | Unlimited PTO | 20 official company holidays | Health care | Life insurance | Stock options | Amazing colleagues | Energetic culture that is positive and celebrates together | Inspiring mission & software product |...