Lead Software Developer – CPQ

Lead Software Developer – CPQ

As a Lead Software Developer at Ordway Labs, you will provide technical leadership in designing, developing, and scaling our billing and finance platform. You will be responsible not only for delivering high-quality software but also for guiding architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring engineering best practices across the team.

This role requires a strong hands-on developer who can balance coding, technical decision-making, and team leadership, while collaborating closely with product, design, and business stakeholders.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure software solutions.
• Own and drive technical design and architecture decisions aligned with long-term platform goals.
• Ensure code quality through hands-on development, code reviews, and adherence to best practices.
• Identify and resolve complex technical issues related to performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Champion clean, maintainable, and testable code across the codebase.

• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Participate actively in agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Help break down requirements into well-defined tasks and ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical.

• Act as a technical point of contact for the development team.
• Mentor and coach senior and junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and excellence.
• Lead technical discussions, design reviews, and architectural planning sessions.
• Guide the team in adopting new technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices where appropriate.
• Take ownership of complex, cross-functional technical initiatives and drive them to completion.

• Knowledge of Quote to Cash, CPQ, Deal Desk functionality
• Developed and delivered enterprise grade pricing, quoting systems
• Knowledge of sales processes, multi currency, product catalog, bundling and
• rules related to that

• Continuously improve development workflows, tooling, and engineering processes.
• Promote best practices in testing, documentation, CI/CD, and Dev Ops.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, applying them pragmatically to improve the platform.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2+ years in a technical lead or senior ownership role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and at least one other language such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with modern web frameworks and technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Spring, Django).
• Solid understanding of database design and development (SQL and No
  
  SQL).
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience working with scalable systems like Kafka
• Deep understanding of LLMs (transformers, tokenization, context windows, embeddings)
• Prompt engineering — system prompts, few-shot, chain-of-thought, structured outputs
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines
• Fine-tuning and RLHF concepts (not always hands-on, but expected knowledge)
• Evaluation design — building evals, benchmarks, and quality metrics
• Shipped production AI features or agents
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ownership mindset.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

• Experience in fintech, Quote to Cash or CPQ systems.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with Dev Ops practices, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring.
• Prior experience scaling SaaS platforms or working in high-growth environments.