Lead Engineer - Korea

Overview

Lead Engineer responsible for hands-on technical leadership and ownership of complex products and systems.

What you'll do

• Lead technical design and execution for major products, features, and engineering initiatives.
• Design scalable, reliable, maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
• Stay hands-on with coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving.
• Make architecture decisions and trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Break ambiguous problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability through actionable review and feedback.
• Own systems post-release by monitoring production, investigating incidents, and improving reliability.

What you'll need

• Significant experience building and shipping production systems.
• Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
• Ability and willingness to remain hands-on with coding and debugging.
• Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to engineers.
• Comfort reviewing code and working with production systems during complex issues.

Details

• Work mode: remote.
• Location: Seoul, Korea.
• Primary working language: English.