Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Meta

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

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of coding experience in C, C++, Java, and/or C#
  • Extensive experience in building server applications
  • Proven track record of planning and executing long-term technical roadmaps
  • Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering projects
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • Experience mentoring and influencing engineers across different organizations
  • Strong communication skills for effective cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the team's goals and technical direction toward organizational efficiency
  • Communicate complex features and systems to various stakeholders
  • Understand and assess industry trends to develop new technologies
  • Collaborate with organizational leaders to enhance team performance
  • Identify and influence staffing and prioritization of new opportunities
  • Lead the long-term technical vision and roadmap for cross-company projects
  • Collect and synthesize requirements to create an effective feature roadmap.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead significant cross-functional projects
  • Access to a collaborative work environment with leadership involvement
  • Possibility to influence the technical direction of the organization
  • Focus on developing cutting-edge technologies, especially AI tools
  • Chance to mentor and shape the next generation of engineers
  • Participation in a large organization with industry-wide impact potential.
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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