Lead Software Engineer

<p>We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our EMEA Engineering team in France (remote).</p> <p><strong>What does a Lead Software Engineer at CoderPad do?</strong></p> <p>As a Lead Software Engineer at CoderPad, you’ll design, build, and ship features across our full stack — taking ownership of complex technical problems end to end and raising the engineering bar for the EMEA team. You’ll combine hands-on coding with technical leadership: driving architecture decisions, backlog grooming and planning with the Product Manager, making sure what we ship is reliable, scalable, and a pleasure for developers to use.</p> <p>As the global leader in the technical interview space (4,000+ customers in 165+ countries) it is our goal as a Engineering team to build and scale the products that power millions of technical interviews and assessments worldwide.</p> <p>This role is located in France and works standard CET / CEST hours, collaborating asynchronously with our distributed EMEA and US teams.</p> <h3>What you’ll be doing</h3> <ul> <li> <p>Design and develop new full-stack features (React / TypeScript on the frontend, Java, Node.js, or Ruby on the backend) in collaboration with the Product Manager and the designer.</p> </li> <li> <p>Use AI coding assistants and agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) as a core part of your workflow — to accelerate feature delivery, automate repetitive engineering tasks, and offload boilerplate so you can focus on design and review.</p> </li> <li> <p>Contribute to architectural and technical design decisions within the team.</p> </li> <li> <p>Write automated tests and ensure code quality through code reviews.</p> </li> <li> <p>Deploy and monitor your own features in production (GitLab, AWS, Kubernetes).</p> </li> <li> <p>Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team’s engineering practices.</p> </li> <li> <p>Partner with Product and other teams to scope, prioritise, and deliver impactful work.</p> </li> </ul> <h3>What you should bring</h3> <ul> <li> <p>6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior or lead-level ownership</p> </li> <li> <p>Proficiency in at least one backend language (Java, Ruby, Node.js), a modern frontend framework (ideally React), and SQL. You don’t need to master all technologies from day one.</p> </li> <li> <p>Solid experience designing scalable, reliable systems and conducting thorough code reviews.</p> </li> <li> <p>Comfortable working autonomously in a distributed, remote-first environment.</p> </li> <li> <p>Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools to ship faster — code generation, agentic workflows, scripting/automation, or building internal tooling on top of LLMs. We care about how effectively you use these tools, not which ones.</p> </li> <li> <p>Professional working proficiency in English.</p> </li> </ul> <h3>Compensation</h3> <p><strong>Compensation Statement</strong></p> <ul> <li> <p>Compensation for this role is base salary only (no variable component).</p> </li> <li> <p>Base salary range (in EUR): €65,000 – €75,000</p> </li> <li> <p>Exact salary is based on skills, experience, location, market ranges, and other compensation offered. The salary range does not include equity and company-wide benefits you may be eligible to receive.</p> </li> </ul> <h3>Additional Information</h3>