Lead Software Engineer (Provider/Business Unit Portals)

About Bitwarden Bitwarden is the trusted identity security leader for millions of users worldwide, empowering enterprises, developers, and individuals to securely manage and share sensitive information anywhere. Bitwarden makes it easy for all users to extend robust security across their devices with password management, secrets management, and passwordless and passkey innovations. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with team members located across the globe. Learn more at bitwarden.com. The Role As a Lead Software Engineer on Bitwarden’s Provider/Business Unit Portals team, you will lead the design and development of both the Provider and Business Unit Portals. The former is built to service managed service providers (MSPs) and resellers who administer Bitwarden organizations on behalf of separate, external customers. The latter is is built for a single company's own administrators to manage multiple Enterprise organizations that all belong to that same company (e.g., different business units, subsidiaries, or departments). Both portals give administrators a single, centralized experience for creating and managing multiple Bitwarden Enterprise organizations at scale. This Lead Software Engineer role is hands-on and does not carry any expectations for people management. You'll stay close to the code while driving architecture, technical direction, and complex, high-impact engineering problems. As our India Product Engineering organization grows, you'll help shape its engineering practices and also navigate opportunities to mentor and elevate other engineers through technical leadership. WHAT YOU WILL DO • End-to-End Delivery & Ownership: Design, build, test, deploy, and operate secure, performant services and applications for the Provider and Business Unit Portals. You are accountable for these services end to end, including the parts you did not personally write. • Engineering Standards and Automated Quality: Set the bar in pull request review and own the team's conventions for testing, error handling, API design, and secure coding, keeping automated suites, integration harnesses, and CI/CD pipelines strong enough that manual testing is never the safety net. Maintain the architecture specifications, API contracts, and open source developer documentation that go with them. • Decoupled Architecture and Service Boundaries: Maintain clean service boundaries and design resilient APIs so the Provider and Business Unit Portals can evolve independently of the core platform. Own the technical direction and record the reasoning behind significant decisions. • Technical Mentorship: Grow the engineers around you. Pair on hard problems, give substantive design feedback, and mentor them to grow, • Codebase Health: Contribute to performance, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability. Identify technical debt, articulate its cost, and sequence pragmatic refactoring alongside delivery. • Operational Stewardship: Own the operational health, performance, and reliability telemetry of your services in production. • Cross-Functional Partnership & Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Design, Security, and the other teams' engineers to design and validate solutions before implementation begins. WHAT YOU BRING TO BITWARDEN • Overall Experience: 8+ years as a Lead Software Engineer with team lead experience paired with AI assisted development practices, including experience leading a team's technical direction, mentoring senior engineers and being accountable for outcomes you did not implement yourself. • Technical Stack - Expertise: • C# / .NET and Typescript / Angular with a willingness to build depth in other languages/frameworks within our stack. As a lead, you'll shape how the team adopts AI-assisted development: what gets automated, what stays human-reviewed, and how we hold the quality and provenance bar as output volume rises. • Technical Stack - Experience: • Relational database design, optimization, and SQL Server • Rust - core SDK utilizes this language and integrates into downstream clients using WASM and UNIFFI bindings • Writing, consuming, and using SDKs / APIs • AI-assisted development - preferably Claude Code • Technical Stack - Familiarity: • MVC design pattern for interaction with our Admin Portal • Entity Framework or adjacent ORM with implementations of Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite • Migration Judgement: A track record of running incremental modernization inside a live codebase, such as framework upgrades, strict-typing rollouts or state-management migrations, without halting feature delivery or fragmenting the codebase into two competing styles. • T-Shaped Engineering Mindset: Practical experience with containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes), automated test frameworks (unit, integration, and end-to-end), and SRE/observability tools (APM, alerting, and telemetry dashboards). • Secure Coding: Familiarity with zero-trust and zero-knowledge security architectures, encryption standards, and threat-modeling methodologies. • Collaborative Spirit: A highly collaborative and adaptable mindset, excited to work in rapid, outcome-driven feedback loops. • Open Source Passion: Excitement and enthusiasm for open source, developer advocacy, and building a more secure internet. • Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills, valuing written, clear documentation and using data to make technical decisions. Why Join Us? • Our user community loves us and we love them. Come to work each day with a sense of purpose as we bring a more secure internet experience to everyone from our friends and family to the world’s largest organizations. • Become an expert. You’ll get immersed in the prominent technology markets of security and open source software. • We are dedicated to building a diverse and talented team. Work remotely with motivated and supportive team members across the world. • Learn and grow. Take on new challenges with the