[Hiring] Staff Software Developer @Leap Tools

Role Description

At Leap Tools, we are building the world's most advanced solutions for the interior décor industry. Our technology lets you preview products in your own room before you buy them. You have a passion for solving complex problems and working on products used by millions of people. You enjoy setting the bar high and clearing it.

You are comfortable working deep in complex data and distributed systems. You want to build on your experience and are interested in making a big impact.

What you'll do:

• Drive the architecture and evolution of the ETL and data processing systems that ingest customer product catalogs into Leap Tools' internal product catalog platform.
• Design systems capable of reliably processing large and highly variable datasets from thousands of customers.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across data ingestion, transformation, persistence, indexing, and retrieval.
• Design distributed processing systems that scale horizontally while maintaining strong guarantees around correctness, idempotency, fault tolerance, retries, and recovery.
• Help evolve the architecture of one of the most complex and foundational areas of the Leap Tools platform.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to define technical direction and plan for scale and performance.
• Serve as a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers and enabling high-quality, high-velocity development across teams.
• Champion engineering excellence and set the technical bar for backend systems.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives that span multiple teams and stakeholders across the business.
• Help shape the long-term technical vision and culture of the engineering organization.
• Influence hiring, onboarding, and growth strategies to ensure a strong and healthy team over time.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience building and operating scalable, reliable systems in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and operating complex ETL pipelines, data processing platforms, or other high-throughput data-intensive systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts.
• Experience with performance engineering: profiling complex systems and improving throughput and latency.
• Experience working with large datasets and designing efficient approaches to transformation, persistence, indexing, and retrieval.
• Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems.
• Strong architectural instincts and the ability to make high-leverage technical decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and mentor senior engineers.
• Exceptional ownership mindset.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-autonomy, product-driven environment.
• Experience with data engineering, data ingestion platforms, product catalogs, e-commerce data, search systems, or similar domains is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with our stack (Python, Django, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, AWS) is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Remote-first company that encourages employees to work from where they're most productive.
• Tight-knit teams to cultivate an ownership mentality.
• Work anywhere in the world for up to 3 months.
• Parental leave program.
• Work-from-home stipend.
• Your birthday (and our company's birthday) is a day off!

Company Description

Leap Tools is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the interview process.