Lead Software Engineer
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions - External12 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate AI and agentic workflows for requirements, design, prototyping, coding, testing, documentation, review, and validation.
- Define team standards, guardrails, review practices, and governance for AI-assisted development, including IP, licensing, secrets, security, data handling, and client constraints.
- Build automated and human-in-the-loop evaluation of AI output and report metrics such as cycle time, defect escape rate, test coverage, rework, and cost per outcome.
- Evaluate AI tools, models, integrations, and vendor risks, and build internal LLM-based tooling for tasks such as pull request summarization, test generation, release notes, and defect triage.
- Own end-to-end solution delivery across discovery and delivery tracks, including prototypes, designs, backlog decomposition, implementation, approvals, and operational support.
- Create technical artifacts including ADRs, OpenAPI contracts, data models, sequencing diagrams, migration and rollback plans, and traceability matrices.
- Lead client engagements through workshops, technical presentations, trade-off decisions, approvals, and communication about AI-assisted delivery.
- Implement critical software components, review and approve team deliverables, and enforce standards for security, scalability, observability, and non-functional requirements.
- Mentor engineers through pair programming, demonstrations, code reviews, and example-driven leadership.
- Contribute to platform strategy, reusable assets, API-first designs, technical investment priorities, and risk mitigation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with current daily hands-on coding and prototyping.
- Daily experience using AI coding agents and assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, with measurable delivery impact.
- Experience designing repeatable team AI workflows, shared agent instructions, prompt and context libraries, review checklists, and CI-integrated validation.
- Working knowledge of LLM context management, tool use, agents, MCP or similar integrations, non-determinism, hallucination risk, and cost and latency trade-offs.
- Experience validating AI-generated code using test-first or specification-first methods, automated checks, and rigorous review.
- 5+ years building cloud-native, microservices, or event-driven systems, with Azure or equivalent cloud experience.
- Strong proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, and React or Vue.
- Experience owning design, implementation, and post-release operations for medium-to-large projects.
- Strong experience with REST/OpenAPI, messaging platforms, SQL/NoSQL databases, CI/CD, containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, deployment tooling, and automated testing.
- Excellent stakeholder communication, workshop facilitation, technical presentation, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, and code review skills.
- Preferred qualifications include LLM API development with Claude API or Azure OpenAI, AI governance and compliance, internal developer tooling or MCP servers, formal specifications, Dual-Track Agile leadership, retail POS and store operations knowledge, relevant Azure certifications, enterprise security and compliance, and platform strategy experience.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $140,000-$165,000 annually and eligibility for up to an 8% performance-based bonus.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage; employee assistance programs; pre-tax spending accounts; and a 401(k) plan with company match.
- Company-provided life insurance, pet insurance, employee discounts, and generous paid holidays, vacation, and sick/personal days.
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About Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions - External
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions builds retail point-of-sale and self-checkout systems, software, and peripherals for supermarkets, big-box, and specialty retailers. It sells integrated hardware, retail operating systems and middleware, and field services that install, maintain, and repair in-store technologies. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, it serves global chains; customers cited in job postings include Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Carrefour, Boots, and The Gap.