Lead Software Engineer - Python

* * 🇺🇸Grapevine, TX, USA * Senior (5+ years) * Full Time * Salary not listed * Posted

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GameStop

Public Company

GameStop offers games, entertainment products and technology through its e-commerce properties and stores.

Headquarters

Grapevine, TX, USA

Headcount

5,001+ people

Founded

1984

gamestop.com

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This position helps establish a brand-new platforms team within the engineering organization. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership and many other engineering teams to build new systems from the ground up. The ideal candidate leads the development of robust, cloud-native back-end solutions and contributes significantly to intuitive, responsive front-end interfaces — while setting the standard for AI-assisted engineering, automated quality, and modern cloud architecture across the team.

This position sits onsite in Grapevine, TX 5 days per week.

Engineering & Architecture

* Architect, design, and build critical back-end systems — such as payments and transaction technologies — as well as intuitive front-end interfaces. * Design and operate cloud-native systems on a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), using Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and service-oriented architecture, with an eye to scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency. * Own non-functional concerns — observability, performance, security, and operational reliability (SRE practices, SLOs) — for the platforms the team builds.

AI-Forward Engineering

* Lead adoption of AI-assisted development and agentic tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, LLM-based code review and test generation), modeling best practices for the new platforms team. * Establish quality and security guardrails so AI accelerates delivery without degrading code quality, IP integrity, or compliance. * Evaluate and integrate AI/LLM capabilities into products and developer workflows where they add measurable value.