Lead Software Engineer

Role Overview

At BlueKaktus, we're leveraging cutting-edge cloud technology to transform the $3 trillion Fashion & Lifestyle industry.

Own, architect and deliver core modules of our multi-agentic AI SaaS platform - spanning user-facing React micro-front-ends, Python micro-services, Postgres persistence and AWS infrastructure, while mentoring the next wave of engineers in a hyper-growth environment.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership:

  translate product vision into secure, scalable features; drive design, coding, review, testing and deployment.

• Platform evolution:

  design fault-tolerant, multi-tenant architectures; weave in multi-agent LLM workflows, vector search and RAG pipelines.

• Dev-excellence:

  champion CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CDK), automated testing, observability and cost-aware cloud operations.

• Technical leadership:

  mentor 2-4 engineers, set coding standards, lead architecture reviews and sprint planning.

• Cross-functional collaboration:

  pair with Product, DevRel and GTM to ship business-impacting releases every 2-3 weeks.

Must-Have Skills

• 4-6 yrs building production SaaS; 3 yrs in Python back-ends (FastAPI/Django/Flask) and React (hooks, TS).
• Deep SQL & Postgres tuning; distributed systems know-how (caching, queues, event-driven design).
• Hands-on AWS (EKS/Lambda, S3, Aurora, IAM) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proven track record of shipping at >1 M MAU or >10K TPS scale.
• Strong DSA, design patterns, code review and mentoring chops.

Nice-to-Haves

• LangChain / Agents / Vector DBs, OpenAI/Anthropic/LLama APIs.
• Experience with feature-flag systems, multi-region deployments, SOC-2 / ISO-27001 compliance.

Apply now at recruitment@bluekaktus.com and join us in transforming fashion with technology!