Lead Software Engineer

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CoderPad

Employee count: 11-50

Salary: €65K – €75K per year

France only

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We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our EMEA Engineering team in France (remote).

What does a Lead Software Engineer at CoderPad do?

As a Lead Software Engineer at CoderPad, you’ll design, build, and ship features across our full stack — taking ownership of complex technical problems end to end and raising the engineering bar for the EMEA team. You’ll combine hands-on coding with technical leadership: driving architecture decisions, backlog grooming and planning with the Product Manager, making sure what we ship is reliable, scalable, and a pleasure for developers to use.

As the global leader in the technical interview space (4,000+ customers in 165+ countries) it is our goal as a Engineering team to build and scale the products that power millions of technical interviews and assessments worldwide.

This role is located in France and works standard CET / CEST hours, collaborating asynchronously with our distributed EMEA and US teams.

What you’ll be doing

Design and develop new full-stack features (React / TypeScript on the frontend, Java, Node.js, or Ruby on the backend) in collaboration with the Product Manager and the designer.

Use AI coding assistants and agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) as a core part of your workflow — to accelerate feature delivery, automate repetitive engineering tasks, and offload boilerplate so you can focus on design and review.

Contribute to architectural and technical design decisions within the team.

Write automated tests and ensure code quality through code reviews.

Deploy and monitor your own features in production (GitLab, AWS, Kubernetes).

Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team’s engineering practices.

Partner with Product and other teams to scope, prioritise, and deliver impactful work.

What you should bring

6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior or lead-level ownership

Proficiency in at least one backend language (Java, Ruby, Node.js), a modern frontend framework (ideally React), and SQL. You don’t need to master all technologies from day one.

Solid experience designing scalable, reliable systems and conducting thorough code reviews.

Comfortable working autonomously in a distributed, remote-first environment.

Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools to ship faster — code generation, agentic workflows, scripting/automation, or building internal tooling on top of LLMs. We care about how effectively you use these tools, not which ones.

Professional working proficiency in English.

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About the job

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Nov 12, 2026

Posted on

Sep 13, 2026

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Salary: €65K – €75K per year

Experience

6 years minimum

Location requirements

France

Hiring timezones

France +/- 0 hours

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About CoderPad

Learn more about CoderPad and their company culture.

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CoderPad is a simple yet powerful online technical assessment software that makes it easy to interview in the candidate’s language of choice so hiring managers can quickly get a quality signal of an engineer’s skills. We empower customers around the world to screen and interview best-in-class engineers with our comprehensive and flexible technology, responsive customer success team, and devotion to a great candidate experience. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, CoderPad serves over 3,300 customers and has hosted more than 3 million technical interviews in 30+ languages.

Our Story

Vincent Woo, a software engineer with experience working with some of the best technology teams in the world at companies like Google and Amazon, became frustrated during interviews where it was obvious that developers would have done better if they could just run their code and debug in real time. Even with all of that recruiting power, the process of screening technical talent was still extremely manual, time consuming for hiring managers and intimidating for great candidates. He also saw how easily the process biased towards engineers with better resumes than technical skills.

So he designed CoderPad as an alternative to both the antiquated whiteboard and feature-heavy, expensive HR software. It gave small startups that lacked the high-end tools and resources of their larger competitors access to great technology to screen and compete for talent and gave large companies the ability to reliably collaborate via live paired programming interviews with candidates all over the world.

The company grew rapidly via word of mouth from happy developers–both those conducting interviews but more often, those who had a great interview experience. Along the way we teamed up with Frédéric Desmoulins, founder and CEO of CodinGame. CodinGame also deeply understood how the hiring process was biased towards engineers with better resumes than technical skills and was on a mission to promote a more inclusive tech community.

Today we are a global team with a comprehensive technical hiring platform that includes asynchronous assessments, take-home projects and live paired programming interviews. We strive to build technology that gets the right people hired — and moves hiring beyond resumes, college logos, and personal connections. We focus on our users and candidates above all else – never forgetting our roots of being simple, easy to use, and reliable.

Our Values

At CoderPad, we stand for:

Fairness – We want the best person to get the job – not the best resume or interviewer
Simplicity – We make it easy and simple to go through the technical interview process
Transparency – We strive to make expectations clear to both candidates and interviewers
Curiosity – We are always seeking to understand more about each other and the world
Directness – We tell it like it is and avoid jargon
Weirdness – We embrace what makes us unique and love our oddities

Our Culture

CoderPad will forever remain devoted to being a company for developers, built by developers. We believe what makes us different makes us smarter. Building a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization is good for us, our customers, and our community. Our employees have the opportunity to help people get jobs and grow their companies every single day. And, we’re hiring.