PactFi
Lead Software Engineer
$210K–$225K
New York, NY · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of professional software development experience shipping and operating production web applications.
About the job
Leads a product squad while building and shipping full-stack features for PactFi’s private credit transaction platform.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and support full-stack features from architecture through production.
- Set technical standards, make architecture and delivery decisions, and improve reliability and developer experience.
- Mentor engineers, coordinate squad delivery, and partner with engineering, product, and QA.
What they ask for
- Depth in at least one modern server-side language and framework and one front-end framework; the posting lists PHP/Laravel, Python, Node/TypeScript, Ruby, Go, or similar.
- Demonstrated experience leading projects and mentoring engineers as a technical lead, staff engineer, or equivalent.
- Strong knowledge of API design, scalable application architecture, relational databases, and authentication and authorization.
- Experience integrating multiple data sources and third-party APIs; strong communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS or another cloud platform, including CI/CD pipelines.
- Exposure to PHP/Laravel or Vue.js; fintech or regulated-environment experience; production AI/LLM feature experience; or experience growing a team or defining engineering process.
Pay
$210K – $225K USD base salary
Tools
PHP/Laravel, Python, Node/TypeScript, Ruby, Go, AWS, Vue.js
AI focus
Building AI or LLM-powered features into a production application is listed as a nice-to-have; no specific AI work is stated as a core responsibility.
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