Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. One Kings Lane is a company that celebrates craftsmanship, design, and inspired living. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Team Lead) to own a service area end-to-end, set technical direction, write production code, and mentor engineers while driving the roadmap from legacy replacement through new feature delivery.
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical owner for your area or service within the retail service cloud, setting architecture direction and maintaining quality standards
- Design, build, and ship features — reading and writing code daily alongside the team
- Identify and resolve technical challenges across the stack, from profiling and refactoring to scaling the platform
- Replace legacy code and services with modern, maintainable solutions and optimize the overall stack
- Build frameworks and reusable patterns for upcoming projects across the portfolio
- Plan and communicate product roadmaps, triage sprint tickets, and push back on requests when technical tradeoffs demand it
- Mentor junior engineers through code review, pairing, and hands-on problem solving
- Help build the team by driving developer productivity and contributing to hiring decisions
Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js
- Proficiency / production experience with API Gateway, AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB
- Comfortable with IAM and CloudWatch for debugging + least-privilege design
- Experience with Python and Django or comparable server-side frameworks
- Track record of owning a product or service area technically — architecture decisions, code quality, and delivery outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate other engineers while remaining a significant individual contributor
- Experience replacing or modernizing legacy systems in a production environment
- Comfort triaging competing priorities, planning sprints, and communicating technical details to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong opinions on code quality and engineering best practices, held loosely enough to find the best solution collaboratively
- Experience with retail, e-commerce, or multi-brand platform environments
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and microservices patterns
- Prior experience in a technical lead role on a small, high-output team
Benefits
- Paid time off policies
- 401(k) match
- Medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies
- Employee discounts across our portfolio of brands
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