Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Meta

$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; equivalent experience considered
  • 12+ years of experience building large-scale applications
  • 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies
  • Proven ability to plan long-term roadmaps aligning short-term projects to a larger vision
  • Experience leading industry-wide impactful projects
  • 12+ years of programming experience
  • Proven experience mentoring and influencing engineers across organizations

Responsibilities

  • Drive the team's goals and technical direction for organizational efficiency
  • Communicate complex features and systems in detail to stakeholders
  • Analyze industry trends to assess and develop new technologies
  • Collaborate with leaders to enhance team and organizational performance
  • Identify and influence opportunities for organizational growth
  • Create large-scale consumer products and features
  • Lead the technical vision and roadmap for cross-company initiatives
  • Work closely with infrastructure teams to build and scale back-end services

Benefits

  • Opportunities for collaborative partner engagement
  • Exposure to industry-wide impactful projects
  • Support for continuous AI skill development
  • Involvement in long-term technical vision and planning
  • Access to emerging technologies and methodologies
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

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
• Create consumer products and features on a large scale
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Partner closely with infrastructure and operations teams to build and scale back-end services

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

Preferred Qualifications
• 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)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

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