Lead Software Development Engineer

At Amperity, we're an AI-first company helping the world's leading brands create personalized customer experiences. We're seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to join our Loom team, leading the effort to unify batch and real-time event processing across core platform services, and manage a large, mature codebase. The role requires experience in complex, high-scale software systems, AI tooling, and distributed systems, and a track record of fast value delivery.

Requirements

• 9+ years building and evolving complex, high-scale software systems
• Experience leading platform migrations or major architectural transitions (streaming experience a strong plus)
• Fluent in the capabilities of AI tooling, while balancing its limitations
• Comfortable inheriting large, imperfect codebases
• Customer-first thinking where you start with the value you deliver, not the implementation
• Technical depth in distributed systems, data-intensive architectures, or cloud-native infrastructure

Benefits

• 100% employee healthcare coverage
• Transportation subsidies
• Comfortable work environment with plenty of snacks
• Self-managed PTO
• Flexibility to do your best work in the way that works for you