Offer summary

Qualifications:

6+ years of relevant industry experience, including 2-3 years in management., Mastery in the main programming language and fluency in multiple languages., Strong project leadership skills and ability to break down complex projects., Flexible leadership style with the ability to work across departments..

Key responsibilities:

Own large and complex projects, ensuring team collaboration and delivery.

Lead requirements gathering, design thinking sessions, and team roadmap discussions.

Mentor team members and ensure knowledge sharing within the team.

Manage team agile processes and ensure effective collaboration and progress.

Job description

Who We Are

Goodway Group is one of AdAge's 2025's BEST PLACES TO WORK! As an independent and remote-first media and marketing services firm with a 90+ year history, Goodway Group has the security of an established company combined with a start-up feel. With leading data-driven and technology-enabled digital media and marketing services firm with teams in the U.S. and the UK, our diverse team of digital strategists, media practitioners, technologists and data scientists have won the most prestigious awards for innovative marketing technology, impactful work and inclusive remote-first places to work including being honored as a multiyear winner in Ad Age Best Places to Work, Ad Exchanger's Best Use of Technology by an Agency Award and two MarTech Breakthrough Awards and a certified service partner to The Trade Desk.

The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for owning large and complex projects, ensuring team collaboration and delivery with minimal risk. This role requires strong project leadership skills and the ability to break down projects into deliverable units.

While this is a fully remote role based anywhere in the United States, travel will be required based on business needs.

What You Will Do

Demonstrate mastery in the main language of choice and fluency in multiple languages and implementation strategies.
Lead requirements gathering and design thinking sessions, focusing on user value.
Lead team roadmap discussions and ensures the team delivers differentiated products.
Demonstrate fluency in team and organizational infrastructure.
Lead team projects, clearing technical hurdles and prioritizing tasks.
Lead pull request culture, making impactful suggestions for code improvement.
Extend mentorship beyond the team and ensures tribal knowledge is democratized.
Lead team design reviews, ensuring sound design decisions.
Lead team architecture discussions and contributes to organizational projects.
Participates in organizational interviewing culture and contributes to improving processes.
Leads the team’s relationship with support, using metrics to identify areas for improvement.
Ensures team project delivery, external communication, and team motivation.
Leads team growth culture and identifies gaps in technical expertise.
Ensures testability and leads team testing culture.
Leads team agile processes, ensuring effective collaboration and progress.
Leads guilds and task force projects, ensuring technical excellence and vision alignment.

What You Bring

6+ years of relevant industry experience with 2-3 of those years being in management.
Flexible leadership style, with the ability to work with team members across different departments.
Ability to allocate tasks to team members based on their skills and expertise.
Identifying potential risks in projects and taking proactive measures to mitigate them.

Check us out at www.goodwaygroup.com to learn more!

If you identify as a female candidate, and feel you can do this role even if there are a few things perhaps you've not done, please apply anyway! Goodway Group is 70% Female! We realize that men tend to apply for jobs when they can meet around 60% of the requirements for the role, where women tend to only apply when they know they meet 100% of the requirements.

Goodway Group is human-first, constantly working to become more inclusive and to make sure our employee population reflects our desire to constantly add to our diversity in all ways. We want applications from everyone, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizen status, age, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected status. #usremote

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