Lead Software Engineer

Trade your current backlog for ours: InnovateTech Lab needs a Lead Software Engineer in Eau Claire, WI to take Mentoring systems from fragile to bulletproof. Where most technology jobs cap your reach, this InnovateTech Lab one in Eau Claire pays $128,000 - $177,000 and widens it the longer you stay.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the Kafka coding standards the rest of InnovateTech Lab engineering follows
• Defend InnovateTech Lab uptime through the 2 a.m. Eau Claire pages nobody volunteers for
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
• Ship the Customer Service goal-oriented rewrite that pays down years of InnovateTech Lab technical debt
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Laravel libraries
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with GraphQL
• Keep the technology Python service humming through Eau Claire's holiday traffic surge
• Spike a Laravel proof of concept fast when InnovateTech Lab needs a yes-or-no answer

What You'll Bring

• Comfortable owning projects from concept through delivery
• Practical command of Google Cloud, with bonus points for gRPC
• Customer-focused outlook with strong interpersonal skills
• An Eau Claire grounding, or the adaptability to plant roots quickly
• An InnovateTech Lab mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
• 9+ years of Tailwind CSS reps, not just Tailwind CSS exposure
• Comfort presenting to a WI-wide audience without a script

InnovateTech Lab has made Eau Claire, WI synonymous with remote-native, dependable technology work that outlasts the hype cycles. Autonomy here comes with a partner: ask for help the moment you're stuck on Strategic Planning.

We do not just dangle $128,000 - $177,000; we back it with mentorship, a real benefits suite, and schedules that bend around Eau Claire, WI living.

We bumped this posting hours ago because the role is still very much open.

We built this technology team on people who said yes, so say yes and apply.