Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mark43 is on a mission to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve safety and quality of life. They are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer - Universal Search to lead the next phase of their 3rd party search and data integration platform, focusing on building and scaling systems for fast and secure access to critical data.
Responsibilities
- Led the technical design and execution of a major expansion of the universal search platform across RMS, CAD, analytics, and adjacent product surfaces, aligning multiple teams on architecture, sequencing, and long-term scalability
- Defined extensibility patterns and integration approaches for onboarding new internal and third-party data sources, balancing speed of delivery with maintainability, security, and operational excellence
- Reviewed and elevated designs and pull requests across authorization, index mappings, query paths, and service contracts, giving clear, high-leverage feedback that improved performance, resilience, and developer productivity
- Coordinated a complex release across multiple services and stakeholders, proactively managing risks, dependencies, and rollout strategy to deliver safely with minimal customer impact
- Owned the end-to-end delivery of a permission-aware global search capability, driving decisions from discovery and technical design through implementation, launch, observability, and iterative improvement
- Mentored engineers across the team, coached teammates through ambiguous technical decisions, and actively raised the quality bar on system design, testing strategy, and maintainable code
- Participated in on-call and support escalation, diagnosed a spike in failed search queries, led Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and drove follow-up improvements to instrumentation, alerting, support readiness, and operational playbooks
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proficiency in Java with deep backend engineering experience
- Full-stack skills in React and TypeScript
- Proven track record of writing production-ready, well-tested, maintainable code
- Experience designing and integrating with third-party and internal systems to support search and data access across multiple product domains
- Experience with event-driven architectures using tools such as Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis
- Strong experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, ECS/EKS, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS, IAM, and CloudWatch
- Demonstrated ability to use modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted development workflows
- Strong understanding of indexing strategies, document and schema design, query optimization, and search relevance tradeoffs at scale
- Comfort leading delivery in CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code environments within a serverless-first, microservices-based architecture
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated strength in system design: architectures services and APIs for scale, iterative delivery, and lower long-term cost of change
- Track record of leading large projects involving multiple engineers
- Ability to drive testing strategy, observability, and operational readiness across multiple areas of the product
- Proven mentorship and technical leadership
- Experience owning platform or product capabilities that span multiple teams, tenants, or domains
- Familiarity with public safety, regulated domains, or other mission-critical software environments
- Knowledge of security best practices around authorization, data access, auditability, and query governance
Benefits
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the country in which the role is being hired. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
- Mark43 is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
- As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please email [email protected] requesting the accommodation.
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