Lead Software Engineer

This description defines the internal responsibilities and expectations for Team Lead Software Developers. The goal is to align all leads on their role as technical leaders, delivery owners, team coordinators, and cross-functional collaborators within a multi-system, multi-stakeholder environment.

Work Model-

This position is fully onsite in Warren, MI.

Full-time – Monday through Friday.

Other Benefits-

We offer benefits including major medical, dental, vision, 401K, and paid time off!

• Serve as the senior technical authority for your team, guiding architectural decisions and enforcing coding standards.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure quality, maintainability, security, and alignment with system design principles.
• Actively contribute code when needed—especially on complex, sensitive, or time-constrained work streams.
• Drive continuous improvement in coding practices, design patterns, and team technical standards.
• Champion cloud-native practices (Kubernetes, serverless, multi-cloud) and foster a culture of observability and systematic debugging.
• Maintain literacy in emerging technologies (e.g., AI/ML, automation) and evaluate their ethical, secure application within the organization.

• Engage directly with requestors and operations stakeholders to extract, clarify, and refine raw requirements.
• Ensure all work is clearly defined and scoped before being assigned to less experienced developers.
• Validate technical feasibility early and document any assumptions or constraints.
• Ensure user and system requirements are aligned with business outcomes and technical reality.
• Balance business and technical trade-offs with economic thinking (cost vs. value decisions).
• Ensure alignment with customer value and end-user experience.

• Define and manage project timelines, including intermediate milestones and delivery checkpoints.
• Track progress, anticipate blockers, and proactively adjust timelines or reassign work to maintain momentum.
• Communicate any shifts in scope, timing, or risk to relevant stakeholders immediately.
• Handle ambiguity effectively, clarifying unclear requirements and risks early.

• Run regular stand-up meetings to review progress, surface blockers, and align on priorities.
• Ensure work is appropriately assigned through available tickets or tasks.
• Match tasks to developer strengths and availability while encouraging growth.
• Track individual progress and hold developers accountable for timely and quality delivery.
• Provide constructive feedback and clarify expectations where needed.
• Apply structured performance management practices, including constructive feedback, conflict resolution, and succession planning.
• Support developer experience (Dev Ex) improvements by reducing workflow friction and advocating for better tools.
• Coordinate resource sharing and task dependencies with other technical leads.
• Ensure requests for shared developer time respect other teams’ priorities and timelines.
• Act as a good partner across functions, contributing to a culture of mutual support and shared success.
• Work closely with product, design, QA, security, and data science teams to deliver holistic outcomes.

• Contribute to sprint planning, backlog refinement/grooming, and cross-team scheduling discussions.
• Ensure that new work is evaluated, estimated, and prioritized appropriately.
• Balance planned project work with support requests and unplanned needs.
• Make trade-offs between tech debt, innovation, and short-term delivery as needed.
• Use engineering metrics (e.g., DORA) and customer data insights to inform prioritization.

• Mentor junior and mid-level developers through design guidance, code reviews, and task support.
• Encourage best practices, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Promote a collaborative team environment that values growth, accountability, and technical excellence.
• Support developer performance reviews, career development conversations, and technical goal-setting.
• Provide formal growth paths, learning opportunities, and upskilling support (training, certifications, conferences).
• Recognize contributions through structured recognition and engagement mechanisms.

• Partner with Dev Ops/platform teams to ensure robust CI/CD pipelines and monitoring.
• Own production readiness, including deployment plans, observability, logging, and alerting.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for production issues.
• Improve system uptime, deployment reliability, and developer feedback loops.
• Adopt SRE principles (SLAs, SLOs, error budgets) to balance reliability with delivery.

• Apply secure coding practices and champion security-first design.
• Ensure all systems meet compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOC
  2) as applicable.
• Collaborate with security teams to remediate risks or vulnerabilities proactively.
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