Software Developer LEAD – Platform – ID #287

🧭 Role Overview

We are seeking a Technical Lead – Platform to guide the design, development, and evolution of a modern enterprise SaaS application platform. This role combines strong hands-on engineering with technical leadership, enabling teams to deliver scalable, high-quality platform capabilities that accelerate product development across the organization.

As a key member of the Scrum team, you will drive architectural direction, mentor developers, and ensure best practices across the full software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated, technically strong, and comfortable collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and QA in a fast-paced Agile environment.

🚀 Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for our Client platform.
• Define, estimate, design, code, review, test, and document solutions for new features, maintenance, and refactoring initiatives.
• Mentor and support developers, promoting engineering excellence and best practices.
• Collaborate with developers and QA to design scalable, maintainable, cloud-based systems.
• Drive pragmatic improvements to processes and frameworks, balancing adoption with innovation.
• Ensure high quality through code reviews, CI support, test automation, and technical debt reduction.
• Oversee and support individual development environments when needed.
• Contribute to platform capabilities that enable and accelerate other teams’ development work.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and QA to ensure successful delivery.

🧠 Competencies

• Proven experience developing and maintaining enterprise SaaS software.
• Strong understanding of the application stack (Java/Spring Boot, JavaScript/React) and AWS infrastructure.
• Ability to conceptualize systems holistically (client impact, performance, scalability, and data integrity).
• Understanding of framework-level telemetry and governance, especially related to AI and emerging technologies.
• Experience maintaining platforms intended to accelerate internal developer productivity.
• Strong technical leadership, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Self-motivated, high-energy, results-oriented contributor who thrives in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

🎓 Education and Experience

• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in a software product development environment.
• Previous experience in a Technical Lead or senior mentorship role.
• Strong proficiency with Java / Spring Boot.
• Proficiency with one of: TypeScript or Python.
• 3+ years of experience developing RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with multimodal AI tools such as AWS Bedrock and LangChain.
• Experience developing software in cloud environments (preferably AWS).
• Experience maintaining frameworks and/or libraries that streamline platform adoption.
• Experience with enterprise software development and SDLC processes.
• Strong experience working in Agile environments, especially Scrum.
• Experience solving problems in large, complex web-based applications.
• Experience with enterprise data integration including transactions, full CRUD, and ETL.
• Experience with Docker; Kubernetes experience is a plus.

⭐ What We’re Looking For

• Strong technical leadership mindset
• Platform-thinking engineer
• Mentor and team enabler
• Ownership and accountability
• Passion for scalable enterprise software