Job Description
Oteemo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer who is a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building, and evolving high-quality applications and services centered on GraphQL APIs and TypeScript-based runtimes. This person sets the technical standard for the team, drives architectural decisions, and mentors engineers toward engineering excellence — all while remaining deeply engaged in the codebase.
Core Responsibilities
* Architect and implement scalable GraphQL APIs (schema design, resolvers, subscriptions, federation) across multiple services or domains.
* Lead the design of TypeScript-first codebases, enforcing strong typing discipline, clean module boundaries, and maintainable patterns.
* Own end-to-end service design: from data modeling and API contracts to performance, security, and observability.
* Establish and evolve engineering standards — code review culture, testing strategy, CI/CD practices, and documentation norms.
* Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
* Identify and mitigate technical debt proactively; champion refactoring efforts without sacrificing delivery velocity.
* Mentor and grow junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code reviews, and structured feedback.
Qualifications
* 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years in a lead or principal capacity.
* 3+ years of production GraphQL experience at meaningful scale (high query volume, federated graphs, or multi-team graph ownership).
* Experience contributing to or owning a platform or shared service consumed by multiple product teams.
* Open source contributions or demonstrated technical community engagement are a plus.
* Familiarity with developer experience tooling: monorepo management (Turborepo, Nx), code generation (GraphQL Codegen), and linting (ESLint with TypeScript plugins).
Additional Information
We Value:
* Drive: Passion and energy to implement quality technical solutions. Self-motivation and intellectual curiosity
* Commitment to Quality: Passion to conceive and produce world-class solutions that drive real-world value for the customer
* Customer Focus: Consultative approach to solving problems for customers. Expectations management.
* Communication: Superior communication skills. Ability to clearly articulate problems, solutions, risks, rewards etc. (written and verbal)
* Technical Skills: Love for technology. You have to be inherently passionate about technology.
* Business Acumen: Technology ultimately is used to enable the business. We look for people who understand how the businesses can be enabled through their technical solutions
What we offer:
* Ability to make a noticeable difference for the organization and our customers.
* Tremendous growth opportunity by becoming part of a rapidly growing organization. It’s not your tenure but what you can bring to the table that defines how your career will be shaped. You control your growth.
* Complex but interesting challenges to improve the depth and breadth of your technical and business skills. Our consultants are business technologists and understand how technology drives business.
* Competitive pay and benefits.
Work authorization requirement: US Citizenship or Permanent Residence.
Oteemo is an equal employment and affirmative action employer. We evaluate qualified applicants on merit and business needs and not on race, color, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other factor protected by law. Oteemo complies with the law regarding reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled employees.
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