Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Meta

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years coding experience in C, C++, Java and/or C#
  • 12+ years experience building server applications
  • Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
  • Vast experience in cross-functional communication and collaboration
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmaps
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience
  • Significant experience mentoring engineers across organizations

Responsibilities

  • Drive team's goals and technical direction for efficiency
  • Communicate complex features and systems effectively
  • Assess and develop new technologies based on industry trends
  • Collaborate with leaders to enhance team performance
  • Identify and prioritize new opportunities for the organization
  • Lead long-term technical vision for cross-company efforts
  • Create an effective feature roadmap by synthesizing requirements

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Collaborative and supportive work environment
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies
  • Focus on responsible AI practices
  • Engagement with industry-leading projects
Full Job Description
Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap

Minimum Qualifications
• Vast experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• 12+ years coding experience in C, C++, Java and/or C#
• 12+ years experience building server applications
• Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long term vision
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
• Significant experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, programming language design, or compilers
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

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