Software Developer Lead

## Software Developer Lead Apply locations:
City of Charlotte time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday time left to apply:
End Date:
June 19, 2026 (12 days left to apply) job requisition :
JR103873

Date Opened:
Friday, June 05, 2026 12:00 AMClose Date:
Friday, June 19, 2026 12:00 AM Department:
Innovation and Technology Department Salary: $ - $ Commensurate with Experience
** Welcome to the City of Charlotte
** Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:
* Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce
* Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development
* Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services
* Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems
* Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions
** SUMMARY
* * Position Summary  The City of Charlotte is seeking a highly skilled and versatile Software Lead to guide the design, development, modernization, and delivery of critical applications that support city operations and public services. This role provides technical leadership across web, mobile, integration, and cloud platforms; partners with business units to shape solutions; and ensures high‐quality, secure, accessible, and reliable software for employees, residents, and community stakeholders.  

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineer and architect who excels in mentorship, modern engineering practices, product thinking, systems integration, and leading cross‐functional teams through complex modernization initiatives.##
** Key Responsibility Areas**##
** 1. Technical Leadership & Architecture*
* • Lead architecture, development, and delivery of scalable, secure software solutions
• Provide technical oversight, code review guidance, and engineering best practices
• Evaluate and recommend modern frameworks, tools, patterns, and platforms
• Create system architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and documentation
• Present designs to architecture review boards and guide technology decision‐making
• Maintain system knowledge across legacy and modern platforms
• Ensure solutions meet performance, security, accessibility, compliance, and operational standards
** 2. Web, Mobile & Front-End Engineering Leadership
**** Lead the City’s cross‐platform application ecosystem**, including web and mobile applications.

Add responsibilities for:
• React and React Native development leadership
• Mobile app delivery for iOS and Android
• App Store / Google Play release processes
• Feature toggles, blue/green releases, and resident‐facing deployment strategies
• Mobile accessibility including Voice Over, Talk Back, and mobile UX patterns
• Responsive, accessible, modern front-end architecture across web and mobile
• Coaching engineers on React/JS patterns, state management, and design systems
** 3. Integration Architecture & Enterprise Connectivity
** This role leads not just UI/API development but
** enterprise‐level system integration**.

Responsibilities include:

• Enterprise integration design and architecture
• Workday integrations and cross‐department data exchange
• Middleware platforms (Boomi preferred), APIs, and message-based integrations
• Integrations with Oracle, SQL Server, REST APIs, and file-based interfaces
• Robust error handling, retry logic, logging, reconciliation, and monitoring strategies
• Modernizing legacy integration patterns and reducing brittle system dependencies
** 4. Legacy Modernization & Application Transformation
** Many city systems are critical, old, and deeply embedded. This role leads modernization:
• Replace legacy Oracle Forms, Dynamics customizations, and .NET Framework applications
• Migrate legacy platforms to modern web, mobile, cloud, and API-first architectures
• Introduce modular, scalable designs that minimize…