Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer at Lob, you'll have deep familiarity with your team's domain and take ownership of key components within Lob's software systems. We maintain a culture of high collaboration and psychological safety, with clear ownership and accountability, where individuals can thrive and gain meaningful experience to elevate their career potential.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll…

• Contribute to the development of supply chain and logistics solutions.
• Own the design and implementation of medium-sized features or services with guidance from staff engineers or technical leads.
• Participate in debugging and improving production systems to ensure reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with engineers to evaluate tradeoffs, propose solutions, and deliver well-scoped changes .
• Collaborate with product and business partners to understand the problems we're trying to solve.
• Provide thoughtful code reviews and help maintain a high engineering bar across the team.
• Write documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences.

What will you bring to this role…

• 4-6 years of experience building production software with
• Experience with data stores including Redis and relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL), and comfort choosing the right tool for the job.
• Experience working with job-queueing systems, such as SQS, Kafka, Kinesis, etc, is a plus.
• Experience building or operating services in a cloud environment (AWS or similar).
• Experience working with APIs, either through the integration with external APIs or the development of internal APIs.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests that run in CI pipelines.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g Cursor, Claude, or similar).
• Experience building or supporting systems that render user-facing output (e.g., web UIs, templates, or generated artifacts) is nice to have.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners.

At Lob, we are looking to #LevelUp and #EmpowerDiversity. We invite you to apply if you possess even some of these:

• Eagerness to learn new technologies and solve complex problems.
• Experience with debugging applications and identifying issues.
• Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering degree.

Compensation information

Base: $160,000 - $190,000