Software Engineer (technical Leadership)

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Experienced full-stack software engineer to build and improve large-scale consumer products and features for Facebook, driving technical direction, long-term vision, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires integrating AI tools to optimize workflows and adhering to ethical AI practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
  2. Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
  3. Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
  4. Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
  5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
  • Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations
  • 12+ years of experience with building large-scale applications, or similar experience
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
  • 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies
  • Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
  • 12+ years of programming experience
  • Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of experience with building large-scale applications
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap
  • Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development