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SEO • SEO Tools • Keyword Ranking • Google Ranmking • SERP

Search Atlas is an all-in-one SEO software platform designed to streamline and enhance the online presence of marketing agencies. It features a variety of tools including automation for SEO tasks, keyword research, content generation, backlink analysis, and local SEO management. 

With capabilities such as real-time site auditing, competitor analysis, and customizable dashboards, Search Atlas aims to maximize organic traffic and improve SEO performance for businesses of all sizes. 


11 - 50 employees

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

Head of Software Engineering
5 hours ago

🤠 Texas – Remote


💵 $150k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

Django

Docker

Grafana

Kubernetes

Postgres

Python

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📋 Description
• Define and maintain long-term platform architecture and establish coding standards across engineering teams
• Lead large-scale refactoring projects to improve maintainability, scalability, and performance
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across API, database, and infrastructure layers
• Optimize task queues, background processing, caching, and deployment pipelines
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to senior engineers, ensuring high-quality, maintainable code
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams on observability, reliability, security, and cost-efficient scaling
• Lead incident postmortems with root-cause analysis and long-term fixes
• Stay hands-on with coding, prototyping, debugging, and adapting to changing priorities with high-leverage solutions

🎯 Requirements
• 7+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 years of backend Python/Django experience
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role (Head of Engineering, Principal Engineer, or Tech Lead)
• Proven experience leading large-scale refactoring and optimization projects
• Deep PostgreSQL expertise, including indexing, query optimization, and schema design
• Proficiency in Celery or similar distributed task processing systems
• Strong infrastructure foundation, containerization (Docker), CI/CD, Kubernetes familiarity, monitoring, and alerting
• Experience with observability tools like Sentry, Datadog, and Grafana
• Startup experience and exposure to larger organizations, with the ability to blend agility with engineering best practices
• Excellent communication and mentorship skills in distributed teams

🏖️ Benefits
• Fully Remote work
• Fully covered health, vision, and dental insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Personal development budget
• Lasik eye surgery benefit (Yup, we'll pay for you to have perfect vision!)
• Pet health insurance (2 pets per employee)