Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Rockville, MD

Type: Contract

Category: Development

Industry: Financial Services

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Hours:

Open

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Date Posted: 11/01/2026

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Description:

Hybrid 3 days onsite / 2 days remote in Rockville, MD

Working independently, the Lead Software Engineer will own development of software products, improve product quality throughout the software development life cycle, and mentor other Software Engineers for our client. The role requires leading complex initiatives, influencing cross-functional outcomes, and ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, and quality commitments within a financial domain environment.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $75.00 to $83.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and lead complex projects requiring deep specialty knowledge and industry practices.

• Manage processes, projects, or products to improve efficiency within the product area.

• Influence outcomes in cross-functional settings and support consistent team delivery.

• Design and develop solutions that meet quality standards, reliability specifications, and strategic objectives.

• Demonstrate strong understanding of systems and processes, recommending improvements.

• Ensure commitments are met and raise risks that threaten budget, schedule, scope, or quality.

• Identify gaps between system components and design solutions to address them.

• Implement methods to manage and maintain development environments and tooling.

• Develop insights from engineering trends and best practices and communicate recommendations.

• Overcome challenges that jeopardize achievement of business goals.

• Coach and train less experienced colleagues and promote a culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative.

• Partner across teams to remove barriers and align on shared goals and priorities.

• Communicate complex information at the appropriate level to stakeholders.

Experience Requirements:

• Excellent computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, problem solving, complexity analysis, and data structures.

• Strong system design and object-oriented development experience.

• Expertise with Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.

• Front-end experience with HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, React.js, Angular, JavaScript, and Type Script.

• Database experience with PostgreSQL, No
  
  SQL, and DynamoDB.

• AWS experience with EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, Security Groups, Cloud Front, and Route 53.

• Hands‑on CI/CD pipeline implementation.

• Containerization with Docker.

• Cloud technologies, data storage, performance tuning, and optimization.

• Dev Ops practices and CI/CD tooling.

• Test automation and unit testing.

• Software security best practices.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position.

All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following…