Lead software engineer
BE-Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and deliver scalable software systems, focusing on performance and maintainability. This hands-on role involves coding, mentoring, and owning delivery from design to production, including building AI-based testing frameworks and observability.
As a Lead software engineer, you design, build, and deliver high-performance, scalable software systems. This is a hands-on role: you spend your time in the code, combining deep technical expertise with mentorship as you build and run production-ready solutions.
You are responsible for:
- Designing and building scalable solutions with a strong focus on performance, maintainability, and cross-component integration.
- Taking ownership of delivery from design to production, and living "you build it, you run it", so your team owns what it ships and keeps it reliable in production.
- Staying hands-on in the code while keeping delivery on track: unblocking the team, holding the bar on quality, and mentoring fellow engineers.
- Challenging and refining requirements with product analysts to ensure clarity, feasibility, and delivery readiness.
- Owning technical correctness, including performance and scalability.
- You shift quality left and reimagine how QA is done, building AI-based testing frameworks that deliver strong automation and fast feedback so issues surface early. This covers the full range of testing: performance, load, spike, soak, and security testing.
- Building observability into the software as a core principle, so your team can run it with confidence and catch issues before customers do.