Lead Software Engineer, Datasite
$118.8-207.2k
Virtual data rooms for M&A dealmaking
Open for applications
Virtual data rooms for M&A dealmaking
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$118.8-207.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower the dealmaking community to work smarter and faster.
Role
Who you are
- Backend engineer with a preference toward Java/Kotlin
- Deep expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale systems, focusing on clean, scalable, and performant code
- Proven SME in modern programming paradigms and languages, with rapid adaptability to new ones
- Strong mastery of testing practices like unit, integration, end-to-end, and high code quality standards
- Expertise in current dev tools: version control, CI/CD, IaC, containers, cloud architectures. Eager to adopt best-fit solutions
- Passion for tracking industry trends, evaluating new tech, and driving sustainable adoptions aligned with business goals
- Openness to incorporating AI into the dev workflow
- Bonus for Marketplace or Apps development
- Bonus for exposure to Kong or similar
- Bonus for Full Stack capabilities
What the job involves
- As a Lead Software Engineer, you lead projects, drive technical decisions, and manage complex systems while balancing business context, customer impact, and long-term goals
- You play a crucial role in shaping the team’s direction and ensuring high-quality execution across multiple phases of development
- Technical decision-making is guided with attention to customer needs, business priorities, and long-term sustainability
- Roadmaps are created in partnership with product, the team, and leadership, ensuring alignment with broader company strategy while adapting when circumstances shift
- Architectural improvements are defined to reduce operational overhead and strengthen scalability and reliability
- Technical plans are kept flexible, aligning with product and company goals while maintaining room to iterate in uncertain conditions
- Opportunities for cross-team improvements are identified and championed, optimizing workflows and enhancing tools with broad organizational impact
- Collaboration within the team is fostered by seeking and sharing feedback that drives continuous growth and technical excellence
- Communication is clear and engaging, introducing challenging ideas thoughtfully and translating complex technical concepts into accessible insights
- Technical guidance is provided to cross-functional stakeholders, helping clarify complex concepts and maintain alignment across departments
- Trade-offs are evaluated between business needs, technical constraints, and customer expectations to make data-driven decisions
- System simplifications are driven forward, reducing technical debt and ensuring long-term maintainability
- Ambiguous or difficult challenges are owned directly, applying diagnostic skills to uncover root causes and proactively resolve issues
- Mentorship is provided to engineers through coaching, feedback, and participation in hiring, representing both culture and mission
- Personal and team-wide development is supported by actively seeking feedback and addressing areas of growth
- Psychological safety and inclusion are emphasized, creating an environment where others can grow and succeed
- End-to-end ownership of system design and execution ensures delivery of high-quality, reliable features and services
- Monitoring, logging, and failure-domain strategies are built in to safeguard performance and resilience
- Project progress is consistently tracked, risks are evaluated, and plans are adapted with a long-term perspective
Our take
As M&A deals continue to increase in both size and frequency, key stakeholders have been actively seeking tools to streamline their work. Datasite emerges as a solution. Having transitioned from its original focus on communications, the company now offers a suite of SaaS products tailored for M&A professionals, serving approximately 75% of the leading legal firms in the field.
Benefiting from its extensive experience in the industry, Datasite has successfully transformed into a more contemporary business entity. And it has also introduced highly acclaimed AI-powered technology to assist in deal preparation, asset marketing, and facilitating buy-side acquisitions.
With significant global expansion and strategic acquisitions, Datasite remains committed to enhancing its platform capabilities. Notably, in March 2023, it unveiled Datasite Cloud, specifically designed to streamline every aspect of the dealmaking process within a unified platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Culture and benefits built around work-life balance
- Extensive resources to support physical and mental health
- Employee assistance program
- Generous retirement plans
- Incentives for referring new colleagues
- Learning, training and mentoring programs
- Cross-functional projects
- Stretch assignments to help you progress
- Receive feedback and earn bonuses from peers & managers
- Employee bonding activities
- ESG and charitable team initiatives
Company HQ
Downtown West, Minneapolis, MN
Leadership
Rusty Wiley
(CEO & President)Before joining Datasite, Rusty held various executive roles at IBM Corporation, most recently, as General Manager, Banking & Financial Markets. Upon joining Datasite in 2014, Rusty led the successful transformation from a communications and print-related business into a global M&A SaaS technology company.
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