Lead Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

About The Company RoboMQ is a fast-growing SaaS company delivering disruptive Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions to mid-market enterprise customers.

Our flagship product, Hire2Retire, automates the employee identity lifecycle by integrating HR systems with Identity Management and other applications helping organizations achieve seamless onboarding, offboarding, compliance, and security with zero-trust and least-privilege security posture.

Hire2Retire is featured in Gartner Market Guides and has been a consistent high performer on G2 in user provisioning and IAM tools.

About The Role In this leadership capacity, you will join our product engineering team to oversee the development of secure, scalable, and robust SaaS platforms.

This role requires a versatile engineer who can navigate deep backend architectures and modern frontend frameworks with ease.

As a Lead, you will steer architectural discussions, mentor junior developers, and take ultimate ownership of feature delivery from initial concept to global production deployment.

We maintain a rigorous bar for quality and expect you to champion thoughtful, long-term technical solutions over quick fixes.

What You'll Do

• Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and maintenance of mission-critical software components while driving technical design reviews and architectural strategy.
• End-to-End Ownership: Own feature lifecycles from design to production, ensuring the team writes clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, QA, and DevOps teams to align technical output with business goals and global delivery standards.
• System Optimisation: Continuously audit and improve system performance, reliability, security, and scalability.
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to the engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and code excellence.
• Modern Infrastructure: Work within a Linux-based environment utilizing modern CI/CD, containerization, and cloud-native practices.

Core Technical Responsibilities

• Architect and develop microservices and distributed systems, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Oversee the integration of RESTful APIs and messaging-based systems such as AMQP or RabbitMQ.
• Optimize complex data layers using relational databases (MySQL or similar) and advanced caching strategies like Redis.

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