We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our EMEA Engineering team in France (remote).
What does a Lead Software Engineer at CoderPad do?
As a Lead Software Engineer at CoderPad, you’ll design, build, and ship features across our full stack — taking ownership of complex technical problems end to end and raising the engineering bar for the EMEA team. You’ll combine hands-on coding with technical leadership: driving architecture decisions, backlog grooming and planning with the Product Manager, making sure what we ship is reliable, scalable, and a pleasure for developers to use.
As the global leader in the technical interview space (4,000+ customers in 165+ countries) it is our goal as a Engineering team to build and scale the products that power millions of technical interviews and assessments worldwide.
This role is located in France and works standard CET / CEST hours, collaborating asynchronously with our distributed EMEA and US teams.
What you’ll be doing
Design and develop new full-stack features (React / TypeScript on the frontend, Java, Node.js, or Ruby on the backend) in collaboration with the Product Manager and the designer.
Use AI coding assistants and agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) as a core part of your workflow — to accelerate feature delivery, automate repetitive engineering tasks, and offload boilerplate so you can focus on design and review.
Contribute to architectural and technical design decisions within the team.
Write automated tests and ensure code quality through code reviews.
Deploy and monitor your own features in production (GitLab, AWS, Kubernetes).
Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team’s engineering practices.
Partner with Product and other teams to scope, prioritise, and deliver impactful work.
What you should bring
6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior or lead-level ownership
Proficiency in at least one backend language (Java, Ruby, Node.js), a modern frontend framework (ideally React), and SQL. You don’t need to master all technologies from day one.
Solid experience designing scalable, reliable systems and conducting thorough code reviews.
Comfortable working autonomously in a distributed, remote-first environment.
Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools to ship faster — code generation, agentic workflows, scripting/automation, or building internal tooling on top of LLMs. We care about how effectively you use these tools, not which ones.
Professional working proficiency in English.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior or lead-level ownership
- Proficiency in at least one backend language: Java, Ruby, or Node.js
- Experience with a modern frontend framework, ideally React
- SQL proficiency
- Experience designing scalable and reliable systems
- Experience conducting thorough code reviews
- Ability to work autonomously in a distributed, remote-first environment
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools for coding, agentic workflows, scripting, automation, or internal LLM tooling
- Professional working proficiency in English
CoderPad Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CoderPad and has not been reviewed or approved by CoderPad.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive and heavily subsidized, with medical, dental, and vision often covered around 90% for employees and dependents. Affordable family healthcare is also noted.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include unlimited PTO with an expectation to take at least three weeks annually, plus roughly 20 company holidays. This structure provides substantial time away from work.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as generous, including about 16 weeks for primary caregivers and 12 weeks for secondary caregivers. These policies indicate meaningful support for new parents.
CoderPad Insights
What We Do
CoderPad is a technical interview platform for leading development teams. It enables a quick, accurate read on a candidate’s skills. CoderPad works like an IDE to help candidates easily share their skills and ensure you understand how they work. Through both collaborative coding sessions and take-home assignments, CoderPad is with you at every stage of the hiring process. CoderPad puts the developer experience first. Its speed and reliability are second to none — and its interface is intuitive and simple to use. It provides a canvas for you to create a personalized interview process that is unique to your team’s needs. Because every team is different — and every candidate wants to learn about you in the hiring process. CoderPad helps you find better technical candidates - faster. It delivers unparalleled experience to both interviewers and candidates. And, as your team grows, it's easy to scale. That’s why nearly 2,000 companies around the world, including Netflix, Slack and Snowflake, rely on CoderPad.
