Lead Software Engineer

About this role

JOB TITLE:  Lead Engineer

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

DEPARTMENT:  Software Engineering

REPORTS TO: Software Engineering Manager

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Yes

JOB LOCATION:  Remote

TRAVEL:  Occasional for conferences, strategic planning sessions, and key stakeholder meetings

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

You will contribute to product decisions, influencing technical direction across products and solutions. Your work will shape how we build, scale, and modernize our products while maintaining security, reliability, and operational excellence. This role demands leadership within the product delivery life cycle as well as hands-on technical capability.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Champion the organization’s technology architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with business objectives
• Serve as the technical lead for one or more products on architectural and development decisions
• Establish architectural and development principles, patterns, and decision frameworks that guide your team
• Communicate complex architecture and solutions clearly and persuasively to audiences ranging from engineers to product owners and business leaders
• Design complex, enterprise-scale software solutions that are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective
• Build flexible integrations to facilitate data transformation across internal and external systems
• Adopt and extend infrastructure-as-code from reference implementations
• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to demonstrate viability and provide implementation guidance
• Conduct deep-dive technical reviews of existing systems, identifying optimization opportunities, technical debt, and modernization priorities
• Participate in hands-on development, providing technical guidance and removing blockers as part of an engineering team
• Drive initiatives that enhance software maturity, operational excellence, and engineering productivity
• Identify opportunities for automation, ...