Software lead developer

Technical Must-Haves

• Lead software developer with substantial hands-on coding experience
• Full-stack experience (backend-heavy is acceptable; does not need to be an equal split)
• Lead developer experience with responsibility for technical direction and mentoring developers
• Some application architect or solution architect experience
• Must still be actively coding and delivering software (not a dedicated architect)
• Strong hands-on Python development experience in enterprise applications
• Vue.js preferred; React or similar modern JavaScript framework acceptable
• AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform experience
• API and microservices experience
• AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)
• Agentic AI, MCP, LangGraph, or RAG experience

Technical Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with both AWS and Google Cloud Platform
• Terraform / infrastructure as code
• Kubernetes / containerization
• CI/CD and DevOps experience
• Application modernization experience

Non-Technical Must-Haves

• Engineering judgment and decision-making
• Architecture ownership
• Technical leadership and mentoring
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs
• Strong communication skills
• Customer-facing presence
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions

Candidates must clearly demonstrate:

Ownership of business and technical outcomes, not just participation in projects.

Examples of decisions they personally made and the impact of those decisions.

Lead developer experience including technical direction, mentoring, and engineering leadership.

Evidence of translating ambiguous business requirements into working solutions.

Product-engineering mindset with examples of driving initiatives from concept through production delivery.

Ability to work independently with limited direction and quickly establish context in a new environment.

Clear examples of problems owned, decisions made, solutions delivered, and measurable outcomes achieved.