Lead Software Engineer (USC)

Lead Software Engineer

Start: September 2025

Duration: 12+ months (with possible Extension)

Location: REMOTE

***Must be USCs***

Responsibilities:

• Overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects
• Leading the development team in the design, development, coding, testing, deployment, and debugging of applications
• Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for them that helps them succeed in their business goals.
• Work closely with other lead engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules
• Project management prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
• Operational Excellence build, deploy, monitor, and operation of production services
• Mentoring, career management and development of dotted line reports within the teams aligned to you
• Champion quality best practices and Test-Driven Development
• Lead adoption of Agile best practices
• Incident response assist with troubleshooting and determining solutions for issues identified in war rooms
• You ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Computer Engineering or related field
• 4+ years of experience in full lifecycle of software development projects in an agile environment including Doman Driven Design and Event Driven Architecture
• 4+ years of experience working with and/or responding to critical incidents
• 4+ years of experience with building web applications and RESTful web services
• 4+ years of experience working with MS SQL, PostgreSQL, or other similar relational database management system
• 2+ years of experience working with .NET Core or similar object oriented programming language
• 2+ years of experience with Angular, React, or other JavaScript frameworks/ libraries
• 1+ years of experience with application containerization, deployment, and orchestration across environments along with CI/CD and test automation
• 1+ years of experience building cloud-native applications in Azure or similar cloud service provider
• 1+ years of experience with networking and internet protocols
• 1+ years of experience troubleshooting applications running within Kubernetes
• United States Citizenship
• Ability to obtain favourable adjudication following submission of Department of Defense eQuip Form SF86 (PDF)
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure (IaC) and automated provisioning and configuration management
• 1+ years of experience with Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP
• 1+ years of experience with SOLID architectural principles and domain-driven design
• 1+ years of experience with microservices architecture