Lead Software Engineer

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• 5+ years experience delivering production systems end-to-end.
• Deep expertise in Java 8+ / Spring Boot , microservices, and React/Angular .
• Strong Kafka/event-driven architecture experience (retries, idempotency, DLQ patterns, schema/versioning).
• Strong NoSQL experience: Cassandra / DynamoDB / Elastic Search (data modeling, reliability, scale).
• Strong experience with Cloud Foundry/AWS and CI/CD strategy and execution.
• Demonstrated leadership in design reviews, mentoring, and cross-team technical alignment.