As a Lead Software Engineer, you will manage a Feature Team to integrate AI into user experiences, guide technical direction, and ensure high-quality software development.
Who we are:
Alignable is the largest online network of small business owners, with over 9 million members across North America. Our mission is to empower small businesses by helping them build trusted relationships and grow through referrals, connections, and community.
We don't just connect business owners—we unlock the hidden potential in their existing networks by revealing second- and third-degree relationships that drive real business growth. Think of it like this: when a software engineer realizes their college roommate's older brother is the hiring manager at the startup they want to join, or when a founder discovers their neighbor's former colleague is exactly the technical co-founder they need—that's our platform at work, but for small businesses. We built the technology that makes those invisible connections visible.
Here's the technical challenge we've solved: we're processing relationship data across 30,000+ communities, building recommendation engines that surface the most valuable connections, and creating trust-based networking algorithms that actually work. This isn't just social networking—it's relationship intelligence at scale.
With 20,000+ new freemium members joining each week, we're entering a new phase of scale where product-led growth (PLG) is core to our transformation. As a profitable Series C company, we're not burning cash hoping to find revenue—we're scaling proven technology that millions of real entrepreneurs depend on to build their businesses.
Your work here directly impacts the backbone of the American economy. Small businesses employ nearly half of all American workers, and when your code helps them find customers, suppliers, or services through trusted referrals, you're making a tangible difference in millions of lives.
If you want to empower the small business owner through a networking platform unlike any other, let's talk.
What you will be doing:
Engineering Leadership in the Age of AI.
You're joining Alignable as we're integrating AI throughout our platform—leading a team that builds the user experiences and systems bringing AI-powered features to life for 9+ million small business owners.
Your Leadership Role: As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll lead, manage, and grow one of our dynamic Feature Teams where Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers collaborate on complete product areas. You'll set technical direction for how your team approaches AI-integrated systems—guiding architecture decisions while ensuring your engineers build the frontend interfaces, APIs, and full-stack features that make our AI-enabled Relationship Coach accessible and powerful.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Our Engineering department works in these dynamic Feature Teams, and as a leader, you'll guide both technical strategy and team execution. Picture this: A Product Manager discovers restaurant owners using AI recommendations generate 3x more referrals. The UX Designer sketches how to surface those insights in an intuitive interface. Marketing shares what prospects get excited about in demos. Your job? Lead your team's technical approach—architecting the solution, mentoring engineers as they build the frontend dashboards and APIs that serve AI recommendations, and ensuring the end-to-end system meets both user needs and engineering excellence standards.
Team Development: You'll combine a highly collaborative mindset with a relentless pursuit of shipping software, working closely with product management, design, growth marketing, and business partners to set and accomplish evolving strategic goals. We're looking for someone who can lead technical discussions about how AI should feel to users, champion data-driven decisions across teams, and grow high-performing engineers who understand what's possible when combining solid engineering practices with intelligent systems.
About our tech stack:
- Mobile apps: Kotlin and Swift
- Frontend: Typescript/React/Jest
- Backend: Ruby/Rails/RSpec, Elixir/Phoenix/ExUnit, Go
- Databases: Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, OpenSearch
- Deployment: CI/CD w/ Github, AWS
- Analytics: Kinesis, Lambda, Python, Pandas, Snowflake
- Machine Learning: Pytorch, Tensorflow, Sagemaker
- LLMs: Claude, GPT, plus other AI tools
What success looks like:
- You will partner with product and design to drive the technical and business outcome of the work your team will be doing.
- You will demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, design specifications and architecture diagrams for high performing applications.
- You will break up the work in ways that everyone on the team can be productive and work efficiently.
- You will perform code reviews and level up the code delivered by the team via mentoring and coaching.
- You will develop proficiency in our technology to enable coding more algorithmically/architecturally challenging features.
- You will bring AI experience and best practices to enable the teams to move fast.
What you will bring:
- You have 5-8+ years of experience as a full stack software developer in OOP; Ruby, Elixir, or React proficiency is a plus.
- You have at least 2+ years of mentorship experience; at least one of which was in a true Team Lead/Technical Lead role where you were also responsible for stakeholder management.
- You have experience working very closely with Product teams; experience driving Product requirements independently is a plus.
- You are deeply obsessed with doing what is right for customers.
- You have proficient oral and written communication, analytical, and problem solving skills.
- You have demonstrated the ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic environment.
- You have the ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse, talented team.
- You have experience in Agile/Scrum enterprise-scale software development.
- You have experience building and operating scalable software.
- You have demonstrated the ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- You have experience designing, developing, and deploying enterprise solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- You have hands-on experience with Machine Learning (ML) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) and understand how to apply these technologies in real-world applications.
- [Bonus] You have prior experience working closely with Marketing teams and/or enhancing marketing technology, CMS, and tooling.
Why Alignable?
- Mission-Driven Impact: Lead critical initiatives at a profitable Series C company that's already helping 9+ million small business owners thrive, with 20,000+ new members joining weekly—your work directly impacts millions of entrepreneurs while growing your career alongside our rapid expansion
- Exceptional Remote-First Culture: Join highly collaborative cross-functional teams where everyone engages directly with our small business community, guided by experienced leadership from Invisalign, Constant Contact, and Vistaprint—work from anywhere (as long as you maintain east coast U.S. working hours) and meaningful mentorship opportunities
- Inclusive Growth Environment: Be part of a team that celebrates diversity like the small business community we serve, with core values emphasizing psychological safety, continuous learning, and bringing your authentic self to work while making a real difference in the world
What we offer:
- Smart, supportive co-workers
- Competitive compensation
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited time off with mandatory 2-week breaks annually
- Virtual working environment
- Flexible working hours
- Paid Parental leave
- Professional Development Program
- 401(k)
Our culture in action:
- 🎉Enjoy the Journey: We're passionate about our mission but don't take ourselves too seriously. We celebrate customers, teammates, and key moments.
- 🤝 Be Stronger Together: We combine strengths, build trusted relationships, and treat everyone as partners. No egos welcome.
- 🌈Be Different Together: We create space for everyone to show up as their truest selves and seek diverse perspectives.
- 👑Act Like an Owner: We proactively act on behalf of the entire company and customers, not just ourselves. No passing the buck.
- 🎯Change the Game: We start with first principles, assume nothing is impossible, and go after 10x outcomes relentlessly.
- 📈Adapt & Evolve: We accept we won't be right every time and create an environment where people feel safe to admit failure and lean into learning.
- 🧠 Exercise Excellent Judgment: We turn knowledge into understanding based on equal parts data and intuition.
- ⚡Profound Bias for Action: Speed matters. We value calculated risk-taking while avoiding one-way doors.
- ❤️ Be Customer Obsessed: We work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust in everything we decide to work on and how we do it.
Alignable is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all applicants from every background and life experience without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Top Skills
AWS
Ci/Cd
Claude
DynamoDB
Elixir
Exunit
Git
Go
Gpt
Jest
Kinesis
Kotlin
Lambda
Opensearch
Pandas
Phoenix
Postgres
Python
PyTorch
Ruby on Rails
React
Redis
Rspec
Ruby
Sagemaker
Snowflake
Swift
TensorFlow
Typescript
Alignable Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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