Lead Software Engineer, Core Platform

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Glendale, CA, USA
In-Office
185K-225K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software
The Role
Lead the design and operation of Moon's core platform: identity, tenancy, entitlements, payments/financing APIs, messaging and communication services, and database architecture. Ensure reliability, enforce contract-first APIs and engineering standards, mentor engineers, and encode business invariants into CI.
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About Moon

Moon is an ambitious, independent vertical SaaS company incubated by Home Organizers, a market leader with decades of proven success in home organization through its subsidiaries, including Closet World, Closets by Design, and Brio Water Technology. Born inside one of the industry's largest operators — 6,000+ employees, hundreds of thousands of new customers served annually — Moon is built on a rare advantage: we build for the home improvement industry from within it.

Our mission is to reinvent the home improvement experience end to end. From AI-driven marketing and in-home 3D design to sales, service, and operations, Moon unifies the entire customer and business journey on a single platform — supercharged by Luna, our proprietary AI engine. Where most operators stitch together disconnected tools that don't understand the homeowner, we're building the unified operating system the industry has never had. We're a rapidly growing team of committed builders, driven to reimagine how this industry sells, designs, and delivers — and to power the next generation of operators, from single-location dealers to national franchise networks.

Role Overview

You will be the technical lead of Moon's core platform: auth and identity, multi-entity tenancy, the entitlements engine, payments and financing APIs, cross-platform communication services, and the databases everything runs on. Every module team builds on the foundation you keep solid.

About the role

   You will join a small, senior platform team as its lead engineer, working with the Senior EM and the Principal Engineer on the contracts, reliability, and data architecture that let small teams ship continuously without colliding.

What you'll do

   Lead the design and build of core services: identity, tenancy, entitlements, payments and financing APIs, messaging buses - and the common shared services every module consumes: email, SMS, voice and communication services, and the client database.

   Own database architecture and performance; uphold demanding reliability commitments.

   Enforce contract-first discipline: versioned APIs, clean deprecation windows, no surprise breaking changes.

   Enforce engineering standards via code review across the application, including proper use of the design system via Storybook.

   Mentor the team's engineers; encode critical business rules as CI-enforced invariants.

Qualifications

   7+ years of backend engineering with distributed systems in production.

   Deep database and API design experience; payments or fintech integration experience a strong plus.

   Has been the technical lead others calibrate against.

   Pragmatic architecture instincts; ships.

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of backend engineering with distributed systems in production
  • Deep database and API design experience
  • Payments or fintech integration experience
  • Proven experience as a technical lead
  • Pragmatic architecture instincts with a track record of shipping
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The Company
6 Employees
Year Founded: 2025

What We Do

At Moon, we’re building a platform to help the world pursue its biggest dreams and to build the world's best companies. If you’re driven by imagination, speed, and impact — we want you on board. Backed by industry leaders were committed to changing the business of business.

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