Lead Software Engineer - Internal Developer Platform & Developer Experience

Qualifications

• Experience working within Agile product delivery or software engineering environments.
• Experience building or supporting internal developer platforms, developer portals, and self-service engineering capabilities.
• Experience developing internal developer platform integrations, automation, and self-service capabilities using AWS services, APIs, SDKs, and infrastructure as code
• Experience integrating internal developer platforms with source control, cloud platforms, CI/CD systems, security tooling, documentation, observability solutions, service management systems, and enterprise data sources.
• Experience designing software catalogs, scorecards, health checks, or similar platform capabilities.
• Experience developing self-service workflows, templates, automation, documentation, and onboarding capabilities that improve developer productivity and platform adoption.
• Experience identifying developer friction and driving measurable improvements across developer journeys, tools, processes, platforms, and teams.
• Experience using platform health, adoption, usage, reliability, or developer productivity measures to identify opportunities and evaluate outcomes.
• Experience operating and continuously improving an internal engineering platform, including monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, and service ownership.
• Experience applying product management principles to internal engineering platforms, including gathering developer feedback, prioritizing capabilities, and measuring platform adoption, effectiveness, and alignment with engineering standards.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related field of study and at least five years of software engineering experience or nine years of related and applicable experience.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated experience in software development lifecycle methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and coach/mentor team members.
• Big picture thinker with the ability to translate WaaS strategy to company strategy.
• Strong ability to perform root cause analysis and recommend solutions using data.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and communicate with stakeholders.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Continuous learning mindset and awareness of industry trends.
• Ability to collaborate and work within a diverse development team model.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-team technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, integrating, or supporting platform capabilities used by multiple engineering teams.