Lead Full Stack Engineer
$129,300 - $177,800 per year
ApplyLead Full Stack Engineer
Posted 9 days ago
SENIORITY
Lead
SALARY
$129,300 - $177,800 per year
About the role
- Engineering Leadership & Strategy
- Lead full stack engineering strategy and execution across UI, APIs, and data platforms
- Define architectural direction and ensure high standards for code quality, scalability, and maintainability
- Select frameworks, languages, and platforms across front-end, back-end, APIs, and data layers
- Approve architectural patterns (monolith vs. microservices, cloud strategy, and integrations)
- Identify opportunities to refactor, modernize, or retire legacy systems
- Delivery Execution & Prioritization
- Drive consistent delivery across multiple engineering teams through: Sprint planning and execution
- Dependency management
- Risk mitigation
- Removal of technical and organizational blockers
- Prioritize feature development, platform investments, and technical debt across teams
- Make trade-offs on scope, timelines, and resource allocation
- Balance short-term business needs with long-term platform health
- Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery that builds stakeholder confidence
- Quality, Security & Risk Management
- Define and enforce quality standards including testing, code reviews, and performance benchmarks
- Establish release readiness criteria and approve production deployments
- Guide security, compliance, and data protection strategies
- Mitigate risk and ensure system stability, reliability, and regulatory alignment
- Production Support & Incident Leadership
- Serve as the senior escalation point for critical system issues
- Diagnose and resolve complex cross-stack production incidents
- Lead decisions during incidents (rollback, hotfix, or root-cause remediation)
- Direct engineering resources during high-severity events
- Drive long-term solutions to reduce incident frequency and improve system resilience
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence
- Partner with Product, UX, QA, Platform teams, Architects, Directors, and VPs to: Shape roadmaps and align priorities
- Translate business requirements into technical execution plans
- Refine requirements and reduce ambiguity
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies
- Advocate for clarity and feasibility in requirements, addressing risks early
- Influence strategic direction, technical investments, and delivery expectations
- Communicate risks, trade-offs, and system impacts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Operational Excellence & Investment Decisions
- Drive decisions on investment in automation, tooling, observability, and platform improvements
- Lead initiatives to reduce operational toil and improve developer experience
- Optimize engineering processes to increase efficiency and scalability
- Talent Development & Team Leadership
- Mentor and develop tech leads and senior engineers
- Provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and performance guidance
- Identify promotion readiness and address performance gaps
- Influence hiring strategies and succession planning
- Build and sustain high-performing, engaged engineering teams
- Strategic Initiatives
- Lead application rationalization efforts, including: Onboarding to new APIsEliminating vendor-based products
- Guide Cloud 3.0 migration initiatives: Lead lift-and-shift efforts from Cloud 1.0 to Cloud 3.0 infrastructure
- Support modernization toward cloud-native architectures Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (Master's preferred)8+ years of progressive IT experience, including senior-level development on large-scale systems 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams or major technical initiatives
- Proven experience in full stack development (UI, backend services, APIs, data layers)
- Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns and cloud platforms
- Passion for improving consumer experiences through technology
- Required Technical SkillsStrong experience with Java and Spring Boot for backend and microservices development
- Proficiency in frontend technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSSHands-on experience with .NET application development
- Full-stack development expertise across UI, APIs, and backend services
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud-based architectures
- Experience implementing modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, automation, containerization, etc.)Experience with Python for scripting, backend development, or data processing (Nice to have)
- AZ-900 or other cloud certification
- Experience with cloud migration and modernization initiatives
- Exposure to large-scale enterprise environments and distributed systems
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