Lead Full Stack Engineer

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We’re a globally distributed, fully remote team of passionate engineers, designers, and creatives building the future of software development. If you love shipping fast, solving real problems, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible we’d love to meet you.

A hands‑on technical leader who balances coding with leadership. You'll own core platform architecture, code quality, and team growth — spending significant time writing code while developing engineers and coordinating across teams.

• Write code regularly on complex features, migrations, and architectural improvements
• Review core platform PRs and maintain quality standards across the domain
• Drive technical initiatives and manage technical debt strategically
• Coordinate with other Team Leads on cross-domain architectural decisions

• Conduct performance reviews and own career development for core team members
• Hold regular 1:1s to support growth, remove blockers, and provide feedback
• Make hiring decisions and address performance issues proactively
• Build a high‑performing, autonomous team culture

• Assign team members across features based on skills, capacity, and priorities
• Participate in coordination meetings with other Team Leads
• Regular 1:1s with Head of Engineering to align on priorities and resources
• Run weekly core team meetings for knowledge sharing

• Champion AI coding tools and model effective usage
• Build AI‑powered core platform features and intelligent runtime capabilities
• Dogfood Bolt.new daily and drive product improvements

• 10+ years full‑stack/systems development, 3+ years leadership
• Experience designing and scaling REST/Graph
  
  QL APIs serving millions of requests
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare or Azure)
• Proven ability to optimize backend performance, caching strategies, and database design
• Experience with containerization, virtualization, and sandboxing concepts
• Knowledge of load balancing, rate limiting, and designing for high availability
• Experience with developer tooling, build systems, and runtime optimization
• Track record of architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability
• Daily user of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude)
• Experience building AI‑integrated applications and platform features

• Performance reviews, career development, and difficult conversations
• Growing engineers to senior/staff+ levels
• Building remote team culture
• Coaching mindset with balance of individual and business needs

• Strong architectural thinking for systems handling scale and growth
• Excellent communication with technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Pragmatic mindset: ship MVPs, bias toward action, match quality to business need
• Business thinking: tie technical work to clear outcomes
• Collaborative: knowledge sharing and unblocking others is core work
• Experience building developer tools, IDEs, or online code editors
• Open‑source contributions to runtime or tooling projects
• Background in distributed systems or cloud infrastructure at scale
• Experience with service workers, Indexed
  
  DB, and offline‑first architectures
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or other container orchestration platforms
• Knowledge of CDN optimization, edge computing, and global infrastructure
• You do not need a college degree to apply
• You do not need to be located in the U.S. — we’re remote‑friendly
• You do not need to meet every qualification listed above

As set forth in Bolt.new’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.