Description:

LawnStarter is a marketplace that simplifies outdoor home services for homeowners while supporting small businesses.
The company has raised $25 million in venture funding and is experiencing rapid growth.
The Lead Software Engineer will report to an Engineering Manager and lead technical initiatives from inception to user delivery.
The role involves hands-on development and technical leadership, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the LawnStarter platform.
Responsibilities include architecting solutions, writing quality code, leading engineers by example, and solving technical challenges.
The engineer will contribute to the codebase and work with various technologies, including JavaScript, PHP, and Terraform.
The position requires identifying and addressing challenges to ensure timely and predictable software delivery.
Additional tasks include leading development efforts, resolving complex system problems, sharing knowledge across teams, delegating tasks, prioritizing technical debt, ensuring automated testing, and documenting solutions.

Requirements:

Candidates must be experienced full-stack engineers with a strong background in both server- and client-side web software.
Familiarity with cloud development, Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTful APIs, React, XSS attacks, and MVC web frameworks is essential.
A solid understanding of fundamental computer science concepts is required, including pointers, Big O notation, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures like arrays, linked lists, and sets.
A firm grasp of SQL and databases, including CRUD operations, indexes, and join types, is necessary.
All team members are expected to embody core values such as being data-driven, getting things done, valuing people, challenging the status quo, being scrappy, and building a great environment.

LawnStarter has been recognized as one of the top places to work in Austin for multiple years, emphasizing a strong team culture.
Employees can work from the comfort of their own homes.
There are ample opportunities for growth within a small, tight-knit engineering team that encourages responsibility and ownership of technical direction.