{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"abad3f1c8aeee633e4d53cc2","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/abad3f1c8aeee633e4d53cc2","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/abad3f1c8aeee633e4d53cc2","title":"Lead Software Engineer","description":"Lead Software Engineer (Core Platform)Below, you will find a complete breakdown of everything required of potential candidates, as well as how to apply Good luck.ABOUT THE ROLEWe are partnering with a leading enterprise software company to place a Lead Software Engineer on their core platform engineering team. In this role, your mission will be to ensure a high-scale, enterprise-grade platform is always fast, scalable, and up to whatever tasks customers configure it to do. You will be solving problems of scale and flexibility that most engineers never encounter, building a product capable of serving customers in ways that push the limits of modern software engineering.Your scope extends from the high-performance data layer to the cross-platform user interface to the design tools used to build on top of the platform, a rare opportunity to have deep, full-stack impact on a product used by enterprise customers worldwide.This position is based on-site in McLean, VA (5 days per week). 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