Lead Software Engineer

About the Role

You’ll be a technical leader on the Client Experience team https://karbonhq.com/clients/. Someone who can hold the big picture while staying hands-on in the code. You’re frontend-anchored with deep React expertise, comfortable driving mobile architecture decisions, and able to contribute confidently to our .NET Core backend services. You know how to guide a team toward great outcomes without over-engineering.

You thrive in a collaborative, autonomous environment, take genuine ownership of the product and its impact on customers, and are energised by both shipping new features and improving the systems that already exist.

Key responsibilities include:

• Shipping new features and iteratively enhancing existing systems across web, mobile, and backend surfaces, prioritizing reliability and exceptional user experience.
• Drive architectural decisions for new services, balancing long-term scalability and maintainability with the need for rapid delivery in a multi-stack environment.
• Partner closely with product managers and designers from the earliest stages of solution design: shaping problems, challenging assumptions, and defining the right approach before implementation and help break work for your team.
• Own the technical backlog by ideating, prioritizing, and delivering on technical initiatives while communicating trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.
• Champion observability and reliability by defining meaningful dashboards, alerts, and SLOs to ensure our services remain healthy in production.
• Set the standard for pragmatic engineering, demonstrating the judgment to know when to move fast and when to invest in robustness.
• Leverage AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate delivery while always applying human oversight to what ships.
• Mentor and grow engineers through code reviews, pairing, and coaching, fostering a collaborative culture where the whole team improves.
• Work with autonomy, taking ownership of problems and bringing clear recommendations rather than waiting for predefined answers.

What Sets You Apart!

• Proven track record of technical leadership in both new feature development and maintaining existing systems.
• Deep React expertise with a frontend-anchored focus, setting the standard for frontend craft on the team.
• Strong TypeScript proficiency and a solid understanding of modern JavaScript and browser standards (HTML/CSS, DOM API, ES modules).
• Ability to drive mobile architecture decisions across React Native. You’ve designed systems across both web and mobile surfaces and can guide the team’s mobile direction, not just review mobile code.
• .NET Core (C#, Web API). Demonstrated senior-level depth in backend systems and container-based architecture, comfortable taking full ownership of a service without requiring dedicated backend leadership.
• Experience owning a technical backlog: ideating, scoping, prioritising, and delivering with the team.
• Proven track record of delivering features end-to-end - from technical scoping and design through to production