[Hiring] Lead Software Engineer @AAPC

Role Description

This is a remote position.

AAPC seeks a hands-on lead software engineer to help build and evolve the customer-facing digital products, e-commerce experiences, and marketing technology that take people from discovery through membership, certification, and renewal. Our Marketing team relies on capable platforms, including HubSpot, Contentful, RudderStack, and our CRM. The opportunity now is to connect them with a clear integration strategy, so data flows reliably into a holistic view of our members and customers, and Marketing has the insight it needs to do its best work.

This role is for someone who can see the whole forest and still build what is needed. We default to buying proven platforms and integrating them well, and you know how to work inside those systems as designed. But purchased tools are only part of the picture. Some needs call for custom software:

• Customer-facing applications
• E-commerce and member experiences
• Services, APIs, and event pipelines that fill gaps between platforms

When building is the right call, you design, deliver, and support that software to the same standard as any production system: well-tested, secure, observable, and maintainable.

You will not do this alone. You will work closely with our platform engineering team, understanding and contributing to the cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and observability that everything you build runs on. You will also partner with our data platform team to ensure member and customer data arrives complete, consistent, and ready to use.

Modern tooling has fundamentally changed what an exceptional engineer can accomplish. In this role, you will treat AI as an extension of your engineering team. By leveraging:

• Agentic coding tools
• Reusable skills
• Agentic engineering practices
• Established components
• Internal frameworks

You will orchestrate work that historically required a much larger team. You will bring the same thinking to Marketing itself, building AI-enabled tools and workflows that make marketers more self-sufficient.

This is primarily a hands-on engineering role. You will serve as the technical lead for our Marketing Technology team, helping set standards and supporting a team with strong front-end and CMS skills as they grow into well-rounded engineers across:

• Integration and data work
• Automated testing and observability
• Agentic engineering practices

From time to time, you will also step into interim team leadership to keep work moving.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience designing, building, and operating production customer-facing web applications and digital products
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• A track record of designing loosely coupled, distributed systems
• Hands-on experience integrating marketing and customer platforms
• Experience building customer data foundations alongside data and platform teams
• Strong judgment about when to configure, integrate, or build
• Practical experience deploying and running software on cloud infrastructure
• Experience using agentic coding tools
• Fluency in marketing concepts
• Experience leading technically
• Working knowledge of privacy and consent requirements
• Clear, concise communication
• The initiative to improve systems and processes

Requirements

• Help define the integration strategy and target architecture for AAPC’s marketing technology ecosystem
• Design, build, and operate custom services, APIs, and customer-facing applications
• Build and maintain the integrations, adapters, and CMS components
• Partner with our data platform and platform engineering teams
• Translate our search and AI-visibility strategy into technical capabilities
• Recommend when to build, buy, integrate, or retire
• Partner with our platform engineering team to meet infrastructure standards
• Go beyond system health to behavioral observability
• Contribute to our shared engineering lifecycle
• Own delivery of the software you build
• Work directly with Marketing to understand business questions
• Serve as technical lead for the Marketing Technology team
• Build AI-enabled capabilities for Marketing
• Treat consent, privacy, and responsible handling of personal data as design requirements
• Create and improve reusable skills, components, frameworks, workflows, and automation
• Measure success by marketing and business outcomes

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Generous PTO and Holiday Pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Remote/virtual-office consideration