Software Development Lead

RevStar

7d•Remote

About The Position

RevStar is seeking a senior, hands-on Software Development Lead to act as a player-coach and technical standard bearer across their Product Development practice. This role is responsible for raising the quality bar across all delivery teams, not by managing people directly, but by leading through hands-on contribution, standards enforcement, coaching, and enablement. The ideal candidate has deep experience in ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS cloud-native development, is able to be hands-on in code and architecture, while acting as a force multiplier across the organization. RevStar is a dynamic team of engineers, architects, and product managers committed to putting business first in the pursuit of excellence. As an AI-first, full-service innovation shop and AWS Advanced Tier Partner, they deliver end-to-end cloud-native, data, and AI solutions that create real business impact. They foster a collaborative, remote-first culture where teams freely share ideas, innovate together, and grow both individually and collectively. By joining RevStar, you’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies across diverse industries, delivering value-driven products for clients who prioritize quality and performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field
7+ years of professional software development experience
Strong hands-on expertise in ReactJS (modern patterns, state management, performance)
Strong hands-on expertise in NodeJS (APIs, services, async systems)
Deep experience building cloud-native applications on AWS
Strong understanding of REST and event-driven architectures
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines
Strong understanding of testing strategies and observability
Proven experience leading technical standards or architecture across multiple teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to influence without authority and lead through expertise
AWS certifications (Developer, Solutions Architect, or equivalent)
Experience in consulting or agency environments

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Serverless architectures
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, Terraform)
Familiarity with Distributed systems and scalability patterns
Experience creating internal frameworks, accelerators, or engineering playbooks

Responsibilities

Establishing and enforcing coding, architecture, and delivery standards
Operating a Center of Excellence for cloud-native product development
Leading standards committees, internal training, leadership labs, and technical reviews
Creating reusable accelerators, boilerplate code, and reference architectures
Create, propose, and operate a mechanism to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability across all client solutions
Oversee the adoption of AI to accelerate product development, improve profitability, support competitive estimates, and ensure client satisfaction
Serve as a hands-on technical leader contributing directly to architectural standards, code reviews, complex technical problem-solving, and reference implementations
Create and serve as a Center of Excellence for complex engineering challenges across teams
Partner with Product Managers and Team Leads to validate feasibility, scalability, and long-term maintainability of solutions
Lead by example through high-quality, production-grade code and architectural patterns
Define, document, and enforce coding standards (ReactJS, NodeJS, backend APIs), cloud-native architecture patterns on AWS, CI/CD, testing, and observability expectations, and security, performance, and scalability best practices
Ensure all teams and team leads are following approved engineering and delivery execution standards
Periodically audit projects for standards compliance and coach teams on remediation
Design and deliver a developer training curriculum, including modern ReactJS and NodeJS patterns, AWS cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, APIs, microservices, testing, observability, and performance optimization
Lead Companywide Leadership Labs focused on technical decision-making, code quality and maintainability, tradeoff analysis and architectural reasoning, and AI adoption for efficient product development
Mentor senior engineers and team leads as they grow into technical leadership roles
Support onboarding and ramp-up of new engineers through shared patterns and accelerators
Build and maintain reusable assets, including boilerplate repositories, reference architectures, common service patterns, and shared UI components and backend services
Ensure accelerators are production-ready, secure, observable, and aligned with AWS best practices
Continuously evolve reusable assets based on delivery learnings and emerging technologies
Work closely with Product Management Leads, Team Leads, DevOps, Design, and QA leadership
Ensure strong alignment between product intent, technical implementation, delivery execution, and business impact
Support consistent adherence to standards across distributed, remote teams
Identify recurring technical issues across projects and drive systemic improvements
Stay current on AWS services and architectural best practices, frontend and backend frameworks, cloud-native development trends, and emerging/disruptive technologies impacting the industry (AI, computer vision, etc.)
Evaluate new tools, frameworks, and patterns and recommend adoption where appropriate
Translate innovation into practical, repeatable delivery standards