Full Stack Developer Lead

Job Description:

Job Title:          Full Stack Developer Lead

Location :            McLean, VA (5 days/week at office - Onsite) (Only local candidates with ID)

Type:                    Contract to Hire

Must Have Skills:

• JAVA, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, AWS or cloud-native application development, MongoDB, ESS, EKS, Kubernetes, GENAI, Angular or React, Code review, SQL, relational databases, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
• Lead level experience
• Mortgage or Financial domain.

Job Description: 

What you will be doing:

• Lead multiple agile squads responsible for delivering modern full-stack application capabilities, including user-facing applications, APIs, microservices, integration services, platform modernization, and production enhancements.
• Provide technical direction across squads by guiding solution design, reviewing implementation approaches, and helping teams make scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable engineering decisions.
• Partner closely with Product Owners, architecture, business stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver business outcomes.
• Drive the design and implementation of Java-based microservices, REST APIs, front-end applications, and integration services using modern technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Angular or React, SQL, relational databases, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
• Create proofs of concept, demos, and prototypes to evaluate emerging technologies, validate new ideas, and accelerate adoption of modern engineering patterns and platform capabilities.
• Establish and reinforce software engineering standards, including scalable design, code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, deployment discipline, application security, and operational readiness.
• Ensure solutions are designed and delivered with appropriate compliance, auditability, security, resiliency, accessibility, and production support considerations.
• Oversee engineering production support by strengthening incident triage, root-cause analysis, observability, recovery practices, and continuous improvement of application and platform reliability.
• Manage, mentor, and develop engineering talent through coaching, performance management, hiring, delegation, and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability while identifying opportunities to improve delivery efficiency and engineering outcomes.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of related software engineering or technology delivery experience, including at least 2+ years of people management and leadership experience developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple agile squads and delivering complex technology initiatives across full-stack applications, APIs, microservices, platform modernization, integration services, and production enhancements.
• Required hands-on or technical leadership experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices architecture, AWS or cloud-native application development, Angular or React, SQL, relational databases, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
• Strong background in full-stack software engineering, application architecture, API design, enterprise integration patterns, application security, performance, resiliency, and delivery of scalable digital products for business and end-user needs.
• Experience establishing and applying software engineering standards, including scalable design, code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, deployment discipline, compliance standards, auditability, and production readiness.
• Proven ability to provide technical direction, evaluate solution options, guide architecture and implementation decisions, and create proofs of concept or demos to validate new ideas and emerging technologies.
• Experience managing engineering production support responsibilities, including incident triage, root-cause analysis, resiliency improvements, observability, and continuous improvement of application and platform reliability.
• Strong leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, delegation, performance management, talent development, and succession planning.
• Ability to manage dependencies with vendors, Product Owners, architecture teams, business stakeholders, and internal engineering teams to deliver software solutions effectively.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience; advanced degree preferred.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Provide practical technical direction that helps teams make sound design, implementation, testing, and production readiness decisions.
• Build and develop strong engineering talent through coaching, mentoring, delegation, feedback, and succession planning.
• Create a team environment that promotes ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain focus on production quality, platform resiliency, auditability, and operational excellence throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Communicate effectively with Product Owners, architecture partners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to align expectations and remove delivery blockers.
• Use data, engineering metrics, and lessons learned from production support to improve team performance, delivery predictability, and platform reliability.
• Bring strong discipline across multiple agile squads by setting clear priorities, managing dependencies, and keeping teams focused on delivery outcomes.