Lead Software Developer

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Lead the design, development, and implementation of functional, scalable software solutions. Collaborate with management, application architects, and cross-functional teams to align technology initiatives with business objectives. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering team members to ensure delivery of high-quality solutions that improve organizational operations.

• Provide technical leadership by guiding software design, architecture, and development decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and industry best practices.
• Drive solution development by analyzing business needs, conferring with stakeholders, and translating requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Oversee system feasibility and solution design by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, and proposed approaches to ensure operational effectiveness.
• Ensure quality and consistency by reviewing code, documentation, flowcharts, diagrams, and technical specifications produced by the team.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for system specifications, design patterns, and development practices to ensure consistency across projects.
• Enhance operations by conducting high-level systems analysis, identifying improvement opportunities, and recommending changes to policies, procedures, or technologies.
• Mentor and support engineering staff
  , fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration.
• Stay current with emerging technologies by studying state-of-the-art tools, frameworks, and techniques, and incorporating relevant innovations into team practices.
• Promote information security best practices to protect systems, data, and business operations.
• Communicate technical direction and progress by collecting, analyzing, and presenting development updates and service-related issues to stakeholders and leadership.
• Advance organizational objectives by ensuring software engineering initiatives contribute to the success of company strategy and goals.
• Perform all other duties as assigned

Bachelor’s Degree in CIS or 10 years’ development experience will be considered in lieu of degree

• 7–10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2–3+ years in a lead or senior role.
• Proven ownership of system design/architecture for complex, scalable, and secure applications.
• Strong proficiency in one or more core stacks (e.g., .NET/C#, Java, Node.js, Python) and modern front-end frameworks (e.g., Angular/React/Vue) as applicable.
• Expertise with REST/Graph
  
  QL APIs, databases (SQL + No
  
  SQL), and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, IaC (e.g., Terraform, Bicep), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Solid grasp of software design patterns, domain-driven design, and testing (unit/integration/e2e).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, conduct code/design reviews, and raise engineering quality bars.
• Strong communicator able to translate technical concepts into clear business impact.

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives (Product, UX, Security, Data) and driving roadmaps.
• Background with event-driven and distributed systems; performance tuning and observability (logs, metrics, tracing).
• Knowledge of security best practices (OWASP, threat modeling, secrets management) and compliance needs.
• Familiarity with agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban), backlog grooming, and release planning.
• Experience with data platforms (ETL/ELT, warehousing, analytics) or ML/AI integration is a plus.
• Leads by example with hands-on contribution while delegating effectively.
• Coaches engineers with clear growth plans, pairing, and constructive feedback.
• Drives technical alignment: facilitates architecture reviews, ADRs, and design decisions.
• Champions engineering standards, reliability, and operational excellence (SLIs/SLOs, incident response).

• Ownership mindset, bias for action, and pragmatic decision-making.
• Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Clear written/verbal communication; creates crisp documentation and status updates

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• Non-profit Organizations