[collyw]

Hire me remote.

Seriously though, how much of a mess is the product from a technical viewpoint?

I pretty demotivated some days (not lead, but senior enough), because our product is a big mess of technical debt that only our lead understands (he built it all). I want to make it nice, but he wants to add more features.

Other days I just accept its a big pile of shit and try to get on with what needs done.

It can be pretty demotivating when you see just a pile of unmaintainable tech debt in front of you. Could that be the problem? Is he allowed to refactor it and make it better? Is he capable of that? (Assuming a he).

[pk2506]

What is your tech stack? The lead engineer was the one who build 80% of the system. So they are very well aware of the technical debt.

We actively encourage the developers to refactor/document the codebase if they see fit.

[collyw]

Ok, well he has himself to blame if it's a mess.

I am Python / Django Relational mainly (a bit of everything but I like old school well understood stuff). If by chance its built on that then get in touch.

I would love to be given the chance to refactor stuff properly. Most manager talk about it but rarely that it actually gets done.