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• Overview

  Social Change Institute is hiring a Lead Software Engineer in Columbia, SC.

• Role description

  This is a chance to ship code that matters, working with Django on systems serving high-traffic workloads. Earn $111,000 - $162,000, own outcomes, and grow your technology career with a team that values 9 years of real experience.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across SC engineering teams
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
  • Carry a data-driven Go feature through code freeze without breaking Social Change Institute stability
  • Drive the Microservices incident postmortem that stops the Columbia outage from recurring
  • Wire Coaching APIs to C# consumers so data lands where Columbia teams expect it
  • Cut GitLab CI cold-start times so Social Change Institute functions wake before SC users notice

  What You'll Bring

  • A teammate's instinct to unblock others before yourself
  • A bias toward asking the dumb question before the expensive mistake
  • A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output
  • Hands-on experience with modern Microservices workflows and tooling
  • At least 8 years of standing behind your own estimates

  Long obsessed with Kafka, Social Change Institute has turned a Columbia office into one of the mission-soaked centers of technology innovation in SC. A lead engineer and a director debate Go ideas on equal footing in our Columbia standups.

  Combine $111,000 - $162,000 with growth, generous benefits, and a mentor, and you have the reason people stay at Social Change Institute for years.

  Recruiting for this remote position is happening in real time, not on a backlog.

  Click apply, tell your story, and let Social Change Institute be the place it finally clicks.

• Required skills

  • Microservices
  • React
  • GitLab CI
  • Docker
  • C#
  • Ansible
  • Go
  • GitHub Actions
  • Django
  • Kafka
  • Attention to Detail
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Coaching

• Benefits & perks

  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • New hire onboarding stipend
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Industry membership dues
  • Hearing aid coverage
  • Personal Days
  • Adoption assistance

• Apply before 2026-09-09

  Submit your application for this Remote technology position.