Lead Software Engineer - Business Operations

Leads technical strategy across multiple teams while building the internal tools that power the organisation's operations. It sits within the Business Operations product team and involves owning challenging technical problems at scale, mentoring engineers, and shaping how the team builds. The position partners with engineering leadership, product stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to align technical direction with business goals.

• Drive technical strategy at scale by defining the technical roadmap for major initiatives across the business operations platform, making strategic decisions on architecture, tooling, and technical direction.
• Partner with engineering leadership and product stakeholders to ensure technical choices align with business goals while maintaining long-term maintainability.
• Lead cross-functional engineering initiatives, owning technical delivery across multiple teams, coordinating dependencies, unblocking challenges, and ensuring high-quality shipping.
• Make independent technical decisions in the face of ambiguous requirements and work directly with business stakeholders to understand their needs.
• Mentor and develop engineers, providing guidance on craft, design decisions, and career growth.
• Set the bar for code quality, best practices, and technical excellence while creating a supportive environment for engineers to take on harder problems.
• Own the full lifecycle beyond feature delivery, including system health, tech debt reduction, and long-term platform stability.
• Identify improvements to the current state of projects and advocate for work with broader business impact.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to align priorities and solve ambiguous problems together.
• Represent the team's technical challenges to stakeholders and help others understand why technical decisions matter.

• 7–10 years of experience building large-scale applications.
• Demonstrated success driving technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Understanding of system design, trade-offs, and how to prioritise technical work that creates business impact.
• Proven experience leading or guiding other engineers in their growth.
• Comfort giving honest feedback, setting quality standards, and helping others level up their craft.
• Solid experience with.NET and AWS.
• Understanding of how.NET and AWS fit together, with comfort making architectural decisions that align with the platform.
• User-focused and pragmatic approach, balancing perfect solutions with shipped value and considering business context, not just the technical problem.
• AI-first mindset: establishing best practices and patterns for the responsible use of AI within a group.
• Experience evaluating new AI-assisted development tools and techniques and driving adoption of those that meaningfully improve group effectiveness throughout the development lifecycle.

• Experience building internal-facing products, including shipping tools designed for internal users and understanding the nuances of building great experiences when users are colleagues; documentation, feedback loops, and usability matter.
• Experience in business operations or adjacent spaces, such as products supporting finance, analytics, HR, or other business functions, with understanding of their workflows and constraints.

• Regular in-office collaboration with other Hudlies.
• Currently prioritising applicants within commuting distance of Lincoln, Nebraska or Omaha, Nebraska.
• Expected to work more days in-office than remote, with freedom to coordinate a specific in-office schedule with the team.

• Starting salaries will typically fall near the middle of this range.
• Compensation decisions are based on an individual's experience, skills and education in line with internal pay equity practices.
• This role is eligible for a long-term incentive (LTI) award.
• Any bonuses awarded are based on individual and company performance paid at Hudl's discretion.

• Flexible vacation time, company-wide holidays and timeout (meeting-free) days, remote work options and more to support work-life harmony.
• Open, honest culture with trust from day one, team support, ownership of work, and agency to try new ideas.
• Professional development resources and opportunities for career growth.
• Offices designed with employees in mind, plus tech stack and hardware provided whether working at the office or remotely.
• Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, and fitness partner Peerfit to support mental and physical health.
• Multiple medical insurance plans, including vision, dental, fertility healthcare, and family forming benefits.
• 401(K) contribution match up to 4% of own contribution.

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