Lead Software Engineer

We will consider:
On-site, hybrid and remote candidates

Are you a technically strong leader who loves growing great software engineers? Join PESI and use your skills to power life-changing education for professionals around the globe. As one of our Lead Software Engineers, you will own the day-to-day people leadership for a subset of our development team — keeping your engineers informed, coordinated, and growing — while working shoulder-to-shoulder with peer leads and reporting to the IT Development Manager.

This is a player-coach role: you’re not just managing the people doing the work — you’re actively doing it alongside them.

At PESI, we reach millions of professionals every year with advanced training that helps them bring hope and healing to others. Our mission is simple but powerful: connect knowledge with need. From mental health to healthcare, we deliver innovative, cutting‑edge education that makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

With offices on three continents and growing, we’ve built a culture rooted in inquisitiveness, collaboration, responsibility, and continuous learning.

We embrace curiosity, creativity, and a commitment to continual improvement. Our values guide us:

• We innovate boldly. We learn fast and fall forward.
• We empower our people. Every associate contributes to our success and acts like an owner.
• We build trust. We go direct, assume competence, and communicate openly.
• We act with purpose. Every decision we make aims to deliver measurable value—to our business and the people we serve.

The PESI IT Team supports every aspect of our organization, from desktop support to enterprise software development. We build and manage systems that drive innovation, streamline operations, and enhance the customer experience. Our team values agility, accountability, and cross‑functional collaboration. We’re looking for someone who can think strategically while managing fast‑moving, iterative development work with purpose and precision.

The Lead Software Engineer is one of several peer‑level people leaders within the development organization, each responsible for a subset of the development team. These leads report directly to the IT Development Manager and work collaboratively with one another to keep the broader team aligned, unblocked, and moving in the same direction.

Leads in this role also work in close partnership with the VP of IT, both as a resource for their own leadership development and to stay connected to the broader strategic direction of the IT organization. This relationship is an intentional investment in growing strong, strategically‑minded leaders.

• Serve as one of the people managers for the development team — handling day‑to‑day coaching, feedback, and performance conversations
• Coordinate PTO, capacity, and scheduling to ensure the team is appropriately staffed and workloads are balanced
• Foster a positive, respectful, and energized team culture where engineers feel supported and empowered
• Run 1:1s consistently and create a safe space for engineers to raise blockers, ideas, or concerns
• Lead onboarding for new team members, ensuring they ramp quickly and understand SOPs, team norms, tools, and expectations

• Contribute directly to development work as an active member of the team — writing code, reviewing pull requests, and participating in technical problem‑solving.
• Apply a mixture of proven and emerging technologies, including C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, React, and Type Script.
• Architect and build new, modern, cloud‑and‑web‑based systems that help shape the future of our business — from initial requirements gathering through deployment.

• Actively manage work assignment and task coordination across the dev team to prevent duplication
• Partner closely with Product Owners, SMEs, and business experts to understand priority order…