Lead Software Engineer

About the Role:

• Work closely with business partners and stakeholders to identify requirements and prioritize new enhancements and features
• Collaborate with software engineers, architects, technical management, and business partners across geographical and organizational boundaries
• Assist in architecture direction and finalize design with Architects
• Break down deliverables into meaningful stories for the development team
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to software or systems engineering teams
• Share knowledge and best practices on using new and emerging technologies
• Provide technical support to operations or other development teams by troubleshooting, debugging, and solving critical issues
• Interpret code and solve problems based on existing standards
• Create and maintain technical documentation related to assigned components

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional software development experience

Strong technical skills, including:

• Python programming (3+ years)
• AWS experience with EKS/Kubernetes
• Experience with LLMs, AI Solutions, and evaluation
• Understanding of agentic systems and workflows
• Experience with Retrieval Systems leveraging tools like OpenSearch
• Experience with event-driven/asynchronous programming
• Experience with high-concurrency systems
• Experience with CI/CD using GitHub Actions and AWS services (Code Pipeline/Code Build)
• Strong understanding of Microservices and RESTful APIs
• FastAPI
• Celery
• Data Engineering background
• Experience with AWS services (Redis, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Kinesis, KMS, IAM, Secret Manager, etc.)
• Performance optimization and security practices
• Self-driven with ability to work with minimal direction
• Strong context-switching abilities
• Problem-solving mindset
• Clear communication
• Strong documentation habits
• Attention to detail