Lead Software Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Lead Engineer who thrives at the intersection of hands-on technical leadership and people management. In this dual-role, you will lead a high-performing engineering team while actively contributing as a senior individual contributor, ensuring high-quality code delivery, system design, and scalable deployments to AWS.

This role is ideal for someone with 10+ years of experience, strong technical depth in Java, React, Angular, and modern DevOps practices—especially CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for AWS—and a passion for coaching and growing software engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

🧠 Technical Leadership

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure applications using Java (Spring Boot), React, and Angular

• Architect clean and efficient solutions to complex technical problems in collaboration with product and design teams

• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation into AWS environments (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, etc.)

• Set coding standards and perform peer code reviews, ensuring best practices across the stack

• Champion system performance, security, monitoring, and observability

🤝 People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of 4–8 engineers; conduct 1:1s, goal setting, and feedback sessions

• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment focused on continuous improvement and delivery

• Partner with Engineering Management and Product on planning, prioritization, and delivery

• Provide technical guidance and unblock team members on design and architecture decisions

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Required Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams (formally or informally)

• Deep expertise in Java (Spring Boot), React.js, and Angular

• Strong command of AWS services and infrastructure-as-code tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK)

• Solid experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar)

• Proficiency with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems

• Strong communication skills and a track record of mentoring or team leadership

• Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams