Lead Software Engineer

Karbon is seeking software engineering leads skilled in balancing efficiency and excellence. Ideal candidates thrive in teamwork, innovate, and maintain products while valuing autonomy and creativity. We prioritize ownership and impact, welcoming diversity, passion, and authenticity in a collaborative, sincere environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Balance Speed and Quality—As a lead engineer, you adeptly balance the need for speed with a commitment to quality. You know when to accelerate to meet deadlines and when to focus on detail for perfect outcomes. Your keen judgment allows you to navigate these priorities effectively, while guiding your team to maintain a high standard of both efficiency and excellence.
• Foster Effective Team Collaboration—As a lead engineer, you understand that software development is a team sport, where solo victories are rare. Your strong collaboration skills and dedication to supporting your colleagues are crucial. You contribute to a harmonious blend of focused work and engaging discussions, both in home and office settings, ensuring everyone can contribute to the team's success. You lead by example, fostering an environment where every team member feels valued and motivated to invest their efforts towards collective achievements.
• Build and Maintain—As a lead engineer, your role involves developing innovative products and ensuring the continuous operation of existing ones. You appreciate not only the allure of new technologies but also the importance of iterative improvements on established systems. Your commitment to both pioneering advancements and preserving stability is crucial. You lead by example, fostering a culture that values both innovation and reliability, ensuring that your team excels in both creating and maintaining high-quality software solutions.
• Autonomy—You are inherently curious, finding joy in learning and exploration. Faced with challenges and direction rather than predefined solutions, you engage fully and creatively with problems.
• Own Your Work—As a lead engineer, you take pride in your creations and feel responsible for their impact on customers. You inspire your team to share this commitment, ensuring everyone delivers high-quality, impactful solutions.
• Bring your passion and personality—Your creativity, curiosity, and authentic self make the team stronger. If you've worked in highly political environments, you'll find our culture, free from office politics and valuing openness and authenticity, a refreshing change.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in both new development and maintaining legacy systems.
• Ability to guide and mentor team members, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Experience owning a technical backlog, including ideating, prioritizing, pruning, and delivering on tasks and projects.
• We are primarily a .NET-focused team, seeking candidates proficient in C#, SQL Server, and .NET technologies (MVC, Web API, .NET Core)
• Comprehensive understanding of the latest browser standards (HTML/CSS, Javascript, DOM API)
• Experience and knowledge of the following:
  • One or more Javascript frameworks including React.js, Angular.js, Vue.js, Ember.js, Lit.js or equivalent.
  • Typescript
  • I18N and accessibility standards for web applications
• Experience with one or more persistence frameworks and good understanding of RESTful protocols
• Candidates with demonstrated ability to repeatedly and successfully adapt to new technologies over several years will also be considered as team versatility is important.
• Candidates should have a deep understanding of scalable systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms and have experience driving the adoption and delivery of these systems.
• Strong knowledge of the full software development life cycle and can speak to examples where they have helped implement engineering best practices including testing, delivery, and deployment processes.
• Strong communication skills are essential for our international, multi-locational team dynamics and working closely with product and design representatives.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is needed.