# Lead Software Engineer - Connect at Soraban

- Company: Soraban (YC W21)
- What the company does: AI tax workflow platform for accounting firms. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.soraban.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Chandler, AZ, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/soraban/jobs/f1MenTw-lead-software-engineer-connect
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/soraban-lead-software-engineer-connect/

## About the role

We're hiring a Connect Lead to own Connect end to end: the architecture, the reliability, the daily operations, and the roadmap.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years building and running production software , with at least a couple of them leading — a team, a platform, or a product area you were accountable for
- Hands-on, still. You can read and write Python, review a PR on a system you didn't build, and reason about a Postgres query plan. You don't need to be the top committer, but you should be a credible one
- Real infrastructure depth on AWS. EC2, autoscaling groups, AMI and launch-template lifecycles, ECS/Fargate, Terraform, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch. You've operated a fleet, not just deployed to one
- You've owned reliability before. Alerting, on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems, and the unglamorous work of driving down alert noise until the pages mean something
- Judgment about automation vs. headcount. You instinctively ask what fraction of a manual process can be removed before asking who else can do it
- Excellent communication. Concise written updates, clear status definitions, honest escalation. Half this job is making a complicated system legible to people who will never see it

Tags: Engineering