Lead Software Engineer
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- The Lead Software Developer is a technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing software solutions while providing technical leadership across engineering teams
- This role combines deep hands-on development expertise with architectural leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration to drive successful product delivery and technology innovation
- The individual serves as a subject matter expert, influences technical strategy, promotes engineering best practices, and guides teams in building resilient, cloud-native applications
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-scale software solutions
- Define application architecture, technology standards, and engineering best practices
- Drive technical design discussions and architectural decisions across multiple teams
- Develop and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure microservices-based platforms
- Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to quality, security, and performance standards
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical excellence and continuous learning
- Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Operations, and Business stakeholders to deliver strategic initiatives
- Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex production issues
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation through Proof of Concepts (PoCs)
- Engineering Excellence: Code quality, technical debt management, performance engineering, scalability, and software architecture best practices
- AI & Intelligent Solutions: AI solution architecture, enterprise AI integration, prompt engineering, AI governance, and AI-powered automation and productivity solutions
- API & Integration Engineering: RESTful API development, API gateway patterns, API security (OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect), and integration with enterprise platforms and external services
- Application Development & Design: Advanced Java development, Spring Boot, object-oriented design and programming, SOLID principles, design patterns, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Distributed Systems & Microservices: Distributed systems architecture, microservices architecture, event-driven architecture, service discovery, circuit breakers, resilience patterns, and scalable system design
- Proven experience building enterprise-scale distributed systems
- 3+ years in a technical lead or lead developer role
- Strong track record of leading architecture and modernization initiatives
- 10+ years of software development experience
- Experience delivering AI-enabled solutions in production environments