--- title: 'Lead Software Engineer at CoderPad' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-software-engineer-coderpad-montpellier-85vvf9mp4hvt' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Lead Software Engineer at CoderPad - **Company:** CoderPad - **Location:** Montpellier, France - **Compensation:** €65k–€75k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-27 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/coderpad/59bcb939-1929-4189-b69a-adc83296e104 ## Job description 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. ## About CoderPad ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: CoderPad provides a collaborative, real-world coding assessment platform that helps companies evaluate engineering skills through hands-on projects and live interviews. - **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Technical Hiring / Talent Assessment (Software Development) - **Target customers**: B2B – engineering teams, hiring managers, and recruiting functions at companies of all sizes (SMB to Fortune 100) - **Mission / Purpose**: Make tech hiring fair, fast, and realistic – moving beyond resumes and test-taking to evaluate real engineering skill. ## Products & Services - **[CoderPad Screen](https://coderpad.io/)**: Pre-built, real-world coding assessments that provide structured scoring and integrity monitoring. Reduces time-to-hire by 30% and cost-per-hire by $30K+. - **[CoderPad Interview](https://coderpad.io/)**: Live, collaborative pair-programming environment with a multi-file IDE, AI assistants, private notes, code playback, and structured scoring. - **Enterprise Security & Integrations**: SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliant; seamless ATS and scheduling integrations (e.g., monday.com, McAfee case studies). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Estimated annual revenue ~$4M (LinkedIn data) — however, the platform powers 3M+ technical evaluations per year and is trusted by 4,000+ organizations in 165+ countries, including 20%+ of the Fortune 100. - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not disclosed; key customers include monday.com, McAfee, and other enterprise teams. - **Growth Signals**: Employee headcount grew 9.2% YoY (67 employees); 96% candidate completion rate; 97% engineer preference; expanding AI features and multi-LLM integrations. ## Competitive Advantages - **Real-world assessments**: Multi-file, project-based tasks (not algorithms) that mirror actual engineering work – leading to 60% higher completion rates versus other platforms. - **AI-native platform**: Built-in AI assistants with full context visibility (prompts, outputs, code edits) so interviewers can assess how candidates think and validate with AI. - **Candidate experience focus**: 96% of candidates finish assessments; strong brand perception among engineers. - **Scale & trust**: Used by 20%+ of Fortune 100 and thousands of global teams. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-powered hiring**: Deepening AI integration in both screening and live interviews – using multiple LLM providers, streaming UX, and non-deterministic behavior handling. - **Fairness & realism**: Continuously improving assessment design to eliminate bias and test actual engineering capability rather than test-taking skills. - **Global expansion**: Maintaining a remote-first, distributed workforce (10+ countries) while serving customers in 165+ countries. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasis on curiosity, ownership, collaboration, transparency, and boldness. Written culture with async collaboration across time zones. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-first; required overlap window with core team PST 7:00–16:00; on-call rotation about once every 8 weeks. - **Engineering Environment**: Small, reviewable changes; high-quality code reviews; AI tooling expected as part of daily work; strong focus on documentation and operational clarity. - **Impact**: Every employee helps people get jobs and helps companies build better teams. Diversity and inclusion are core values. - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the tech stack includes modern AI/ML tools and a pragmatic architecture that values reliability and maintainability. ## Sources 1. [coderpad.io/careers](https://coderpad.io/careers/) 2. [coderpad.io/about-us](https://coderpad.io/about-us/) 3. [coderpad.io](https://coderpad.io/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/coderpad](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coderpad) 5. 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