CriticalRiver Inc.
Senior Full Stack Engineering Lead
CriticalRiver Inc., Pleasanton, California, United States, 94566
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Location:
Pleasanton, California (hybrid work, 2-3 days per week onsite)
Role Overview:
This is a senior individual contributor role requiring 12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 10+ years building enterprise‑grade, B2B SaaS applications. As a Senior Engineering Lead, you will own end‑to‑end architecture, design, and implementation of complex systems across frontend, backend, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines.
You’ll drive technical execution through hands‑on contributions, applying AI‑assisted developer workflows to accelerate delivery and quality. You will serve as a technical authority, collaborating closely with peers and stakeholders, while ensuring that our platform is scalable, performant, secure, and reliable.
Core Responsibilities:
Architect and scale enterprise systems: Design across frontend, backend, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines, aligned to SaaS reliability and security standards.
Hands‑on development: Write production‑quality code, conduct architecture reviews, lead complex refactors, and contribute to critical development cycles.
Rapid feature delivery: Ship robust features at speed using modern development practices and AI‑assisted workflows.
AI‑accelerated engineering: Leverage tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Replit, Claude/other agents, PromptPex for coding, refactoring, and testing.
Spike‑first prototyping: Validate new feature ideas through quick prototypes and experiments before full implementation.
Cloud‑native integration: Build services and infrastructure for LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and AI agent workflows.
Technical documentation: Produce high‑quality design docs, specs, and internal technical narratives.
Cross‑functional collaboration: Work with Product, UX, Analytics, and Security to align technical solutions with business needs.
System reliability: Define SLOs/SLIs, enhance observability, and ensure services meet performance and availability targets.
Required Qualifications:
12+ years in software engineering, with a focus on enterprise B2B SaaS systems.
10+ years of hands‑on development building scalable, reliable, modular SaaS products.
Proficiency in frontend and backend engineering (React/TypeScript, Node.js/Python, SQL/NoSQL).
Strong experience with system design, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Familiarity with microservices, containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
Demonstrated ability to ship complex features under tight deadlines in high‑growth or startup environments.
Experience integrating AI‑assisted developer tools into workflows.
Seniority Level Mid‑Senior Level
Employment Type Full‑time
Job Function Information Technology
Industries: Software Development
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Location:
Pleasanton, California (hybrid work, 2-3 days per week onsite)
Role Overview:
This is a senior individual contributor role requiring 12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 10+ years building enterprise‑grade, B2B SaaS applications. As a Senior Engineering Lead, you will own end‑to‑end architecture, design, and implementation of complex systems across frontend, backend, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines.
You’ll drive technical execution through hands‑on contributions, applying AI‑assisted developer workflows to accelerate delivery and quality. You will serve as a technical authority, collaborating closely with peers and stakeholders, while ensuring that our platform is scalable, performant, secure, and reliable.
Core Responsibilities:
Architect and scale enterprise systems: Design across frontend, backend, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines, aligned to SaaS reliability and security standards.
Hands‑on development: Write production‑quality code, conduct architecture reviews, lead complex refactors, and contribute to critical development cycles.
Rapid feature delivery: Ship robust features at speed using modern development practices and AI‑assisted workflows.
AI‑accelerated engineering: Leverage tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Replit, Claude/other agents, PromptPex for coding, refactoring, and testing.
Spike‑first prototyping: Validate new feature ideas through quick prototypes and experiments before full implementation.
Cloud‑native integration: Build services and infrastructure for LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and AI agent workflows.
Technical documentation: Produce high‑quality design docs, specs, and internal technical narratives.
Cross‑functional collaboration: Work with Product, UX, Analytics, and Security to align technical solutions with business needs.
System reliability: Define SLOs/SLIs, enhance observability, and ensure services meet performance and availability targets.
Required Qualifications:
12+ years in software engineering, with a focus on enterprise B2B SaaS systems.
10+ years of hands‑on development building scalable, reliable, modular SaaS products.
Proficiency in frontend and backend engineering (React/TypeScript, Node.js/Python, SQL/NoSQL).
Strong experience with system design, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Familiarity with microservices, containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
Demonstrated ability to ship complex features under tight deadlines in high‑growth or startup environments.
Experience integrating AI‑assisted developer tools into workflows.
Seniority Level Mid‑Senior Level
Employment Type Full‑time
Job Function Information Technology
Industries: Software Development
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