Software Engineer Lead

Job at a Glance

• Title: Software Engineer Lead
• Location: Dallas or Pittsburgh (most preferred); other locations in no particular order; remote: hybrid — 3 days in office / 2 days remote
• Contract: W2 only, 6+ month contract through 02/27/2026 with potential extension or conversion to full time with either the client or CEI
• Pay: $68-73/hr

Overview

Lead a small engineering team as the technical lead, combining hands-on development with architecture, design leadership, mentorship, and technical presentations. Ensure high-quality, scalable, fault-tolerant solutions while promoting best practices across the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for the developer team: design, review, mentor, and guide delivery
• Lead technical design efforts, architecture reviews, and design presentations
• Participate in hands-on development and code reviews to maintain quality standards
• Create and drive technical roadmaps and adoption of best practices
• Mentor junior engineers, provide quarterly performance feedback, and support career development
• Present technical solutions and architecture to stakeholders
• Participate in production deployments and ensure operational readiness
• Promote resilient, scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions and performance optimization

Required Skills

• Agile/Scrum experience
• Apache Kafka (optimization experience)
• CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, Git
• Containerization & orchestration (OpenShift, Docker)
• Microservices architecture (design, development, deployment, scaling)
• MongoDB (schema design, indexing, aggregation pipelines)
• Proficient in Java, OOP principles, design patterns
• RESTful API design (Swagger, Postman)
• Scalable, resilient, secure cloud-native architecture
• Strong background leading technical teams and delivering production software
• Proven experience with distributed systems, fault tolerance, event-driven design, and performance optimization

Preferred Skills

• Additional architecture or domain certifications
• Experience working in banking or financial services

Call to Action

Candidates with a strong technical background and leadership experience are encouraged to apply. Join us to work on modern technology within a major financial institution and grow your career in a supportive environment.

About CEI
As a trusted technology partner, CEI delivers solutions that help our customers transform their business and achieve meaningful results. From strategy and custom application development through application management - our technology and digital experience services are tailored to meet each unique need of our customers. Our staffing solutions bring specialized skills to complement our customers' workforce and project requirements.

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