Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Meta

• $175K — $210K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years coding experience in C, C++, Java, and/or C#
  • 12+ years experience in building server applications and systems
  • Proven experience driving large cross-functional engineering efforts
  • Track record in planning multi-year roadmaps that align short-term projects with long-term vision
  • Experience leading projects with significant industry-wide impact
  • Extensive experience in mentoring and influencing engineers across different teams

Responsibilities

  • Drive the team's goals and technical direction for organizational efficiency
  • Communicate complex systems and features clearly and effectively
  • Analyze industry and company trends to develop new technologies
  • Collaborate with leaders to enhance team and organizational performance
  • Identify and advocate for new opportunities to prioritize and staff innovative ideas
  • Lead the technical vision and roadmap for extensive cross-company projects
  • Gather and synthesize requirements to create an effective feature roadmap

Benefits

  • Opportunities for mentoring and career development
  • Collaboration with leaders across the organization
  • Involvement in high-impact, industry-wide projects
  • Exposure to emerging AI technologies and practices
  • Potential for influencing organizational direction and priorities
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
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years coding experience in C, C++, Java and/or C#
• 12+ years experience building server applications and systems
• 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
• Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
• Significant experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations
• Vast experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions

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)
• 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
• 5+ years experience building AI / ML applications, experience in ML system development

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