Lead Software Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking a highly technical and hands-on Lead Software Engineer to drive the design, development, modernization, and operational excellence of large-scale cloud-native platforms. The role provides technical leadership across application architecture, microservices, cloud infrastructure, integrations, DevOps, observability, resiliency, and security. The ideal candidate leads a team of engineers while actively contributing to architecture decisions, code development, cloud deployments, production support, and platform modernization initiatives. The engineer defines and evolves enterprise-scale cloud and application architectures; establishes architecture standards, design patterns, security controls, and development best practices; and drives high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency strategies. The role also involves developing scalable web applications and APIs, implementing Azure cloud-native solutions and infrastructure automation, and designing distributed microservices.
Requirements
- Experience defining and evolving enterprise-scale cloud and application architectures.
- Experience establishing architecture standards, design patterns, security controls, and development best practices.
- Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency strategies.
- Full-stack application development skills, including responsive front-end applications and RESTful and event-driven APIs.
- Experience with performance optimization, caching, application security, and reliability.
- Experience designing and implementing cloud-native solutions in Azure.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Knowledge of cloud networking, traffic routing, CDN integration, API gateways, and security controls.
- Experience designing and developing distributed microservices and using reactive programming patterns.
- Experience with Spring Boot.
Nice To Haves
- Lead and mentor software engineers.
- Conduct code reviews and design reviews.
- Establish engineering standards and quality metrics.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve enterprise-scale cloud and application architectures.
- Establish architecture standards, design patterns, security controls, and development best practices.
- Drive high-availability, disaster-recovery, scalability, and resiliency strategies.
- Review solution designs and perform architecture governance.
- Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable web applications, including modern responsive front-end applications.
- Develop RESTful and event-driven APIs.
- Optimize application performance, caching, security, and reliability.
- Design and implement cloud-native solutions in Azure.
- Lead containerization initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
- Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Manage cloud networking, traffic routing, CDN integration, API gateways, and security controls.
- Design and develop distributed microservices and implement reactive programming patterns.
- Lead and mentor software engineers.
- Conduct code and design reviews; establish engineering standards and quality metrics.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders.
- Contribute to code development, cloud deployments, production support, and platform modernization initiatives.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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