Career Opportunities: Lead Software Engineer (18918)

Lead Software Engineer - PR3

Who We Are:

Vista’s mission is to be the design and marketing partner for small businesses around the world. As part of this vision, the Logo & Brand domain helps customers create cohesive brand identities across digital, print, and social media.

This role is in the 99d Experience team. The team owns the contest experience and future of 99designs, the world’s leading marketplace for freelance graphic design.

About The Role:

With ambitious goals for the future of the 99designs site, this team needs an energetic, forward-thinking lead engineer—a place where the right candidate will meet challenges and thrive.

We are looking for a talented, committed, and driven India-based senior software engineer to join our product team. We seek applicants who are passionate about their craft, have hands-on experience in design and development, and can thrive in an agile environment.

The Ideal Candidate:

Can serve as the primary engineering decision leader on projects

• Delivers high-quality code autonomously; structures and breaks down deliverables into actionable tasks, guiding team members in execution.
• Solves complex software problems.
• Makes technical and design trade-offs to produce logical, testable, maintainable, and efficient solutions.
• Anticipates, handles, and mitigates risks.

Communicates effectively

• Leads team discussions.
• Engages effectively with stakeholders and peers.
• Proactively works to improve engineering practices on the team.

Acts like an owner

• Contributes proactively to product discussions.
• Produces long-lived artifacts for the team and stakeholders about the product and team standards.
• Positively influences others within their team and adjacent teams.

Relentlessly learns and improves themselves and their team

• Mentors others on the team.
• Solicits feedback.
• Identifies skill and knowledge gaps in the team and works with leadership to resolve them.

Key Working Relationships:

• Engineering Manager – Responsible for the technical direction of the team and acts as your direct supervisor.

• Product Manager – Owns and sets the team’s product direction and manages the product backlog.
• Product Designer – Leads the design activities in the team.
• Software Engineers – Collaborate to bring the product to life.
• Domain Architect & Domain Engineering Lead – Lead the wider Logo & Brand engineering team.

What We Expect From You:

• 6-10 years of experience building software in fast-paced, agile teams.
• Minimum 4 years of commercial experience with PHP.
• Experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience working with REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Strong system design skills.
• A passion for continuous learning and improvement to stay effective in your role.
• Solid understanding of agile principles.
• A positive mindset—equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, along with strong verbal and written communication.
• Ability to collaborate with internal & external stakeholders, understanding business drivers while articulating constraints and options.

What We’ll Do for You:

• The opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, including but not limited to React, TypeScript, PHP, Golang, and AWS.
• Autonomy and trust to deliver excellent engineering solutions.
• Access to mentorship and continuous learning.
• A diverse, international working environment with teams across the world.
• Work with exceptionally talented engineers from Australia and India as your peers.
• The chance to work on products that reshape small businesses and make a difference in people’s lives.
• A remote-first culture and a strong emphasis on work-life balance.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

Being at Cimpress means work isn’t just a building, a desk, or a manufacturing floor. It’s a career journey and a chance to grow, innovate, and make an impact. We constantly push boundaries, embrace challenges, and step outside our comfort zones to discover what we’re capable of.

We're Remote-First:

In 2020, Cimpress adopted a Remote-First operating model and culture. We heard from our team members that having the freedom, autonomy, and trust to work from home—along with the flexibility to operate when they’re most productive—empowers them to be their best.

Cimpress also provides collaboration spaces for in-person teamwork when needed. We currently hire remote team members in over 30 U.S. states and multiple European countries, including Spain, Germany, the UK, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

About Us:

Led by founder and CEO Robert Keane, Cimpress invests in and helps build customer-focused, entrepreneurial mass customization businesses. Through personalized physical and digital products, we empower over 17 million global customers to make an impression.

Last year, Cimpress generated $2.88B in revenue through customized print products, signage, apparel, packaging, and more. The Cimpress family consists of a dynamic, international group of businesses and central teams—all working to solve problems, build businesses, and innovate.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Cimpress Tech, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status, or any other protected classification. This list is not exhaustive, and, in many cases, we strive to go beyond what the law requires.