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Brooklyn Robot Foundry · 1 day ago

Lead Software Engineer

Brooklyn, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$125K/yr - $180K/yr

5+ years exp

Brooklyn Robot Foundry is a female-owned STEM company focused on hands-on robot building classes and has been in business for 15 years. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to take ownership of their custom internal software, combining development work with collaboration across teams, particularly with external WordPress developers.

Education Management

Hiring Manager

K Young

Responsibilities

Extend, architect, and maintain our custom internal system built on Django (Python)

Maintain the speed, security, and uptime of the systems in Production through monitoring and automated testing

Design and integrate APIs for third-party systems

Deploy and manage infrastructure on AWS using Docker, nginx, PostgreSQL

Close collaboration with R&D team to implement feature updates

Help evaluate technical considerations for technical roadmap, contribute to “build vs buy” analysis, and evaluate potential integration options

Support and implement a data analytic tool that leverages all our company data for realtime analysis

Collaborate closely with our WordPress development team, which manages our consumer-facing website, franchise website, and WooCommerce backend

Act as the main technical point of contact for internal staff and franchise owners who have questions or issues

Triage and resolve questions or issues directly where possible

Help inform the UI & roadmap for the enhancements to the Wordpress site, including a running list of future feature updates

Ensure seamless integration and data flows between Django and WordPress

Work closely with the WordPress development team to ensure they have quick answers about, and support for, their integration with the ERP system

Co-develop with our Head of Curriculum an intro to coding class using the Hummingbird platform. This intro class will need to have aspects of how to teach students the benefits of using AI for coding (e.g. commenting code, getting starting points for logic, QA, code reviews, debugging, code refactoring, explaining in plain language what code is doing, etc)

Creation and maintenance of multiple chatbots- 1.) for managing trade-secreted data for internal use, 2.) franchise development data for franchise recruitment and 3.) customer-facing AI for answering questions

Secure all the software you develop and maintain

Liaise with IP lawyer to ensure IP is secured

Maintain best practices, technical documentation, and internal tooling. For now, you’ll be the only person working on our internal software, so your software and services must be well documented and clear

Qualification

DjangoAWSDockerSQLAPI designSecurity best practicesCustomer service skillsInterpersonal skillsCommunication skills

Required

5+ years of professional software development experience

Solving software problems with curiosity and efficiency

Able to work with multiple, simultaneous coding agents

Deep experience with web development, including SQL

Hands-on experience with AWS, containers, and container orchestration

Understanding of security best practices

Experience working with cross-functional or external development teams

Strong interpersonal and communication skills — able to explain technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Excellent communication skills/customer service skills with the knowledge that as a corporate entity, our role is always to fully support our franchise owners across the brand

Excitement about growing a cutting edge franchise system and bringing robotics to kids throughout the world!

Understanding of the importance of IP and protecting trade secrets including custom code bases

Alignment with our Company Values