Lead Software Engineer

8 days ago

Durham, NC, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$140k - $165k/yr

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end solution delivery across discovery and delivery tracks, including prototyping, technical design, implementation, delivery sign-off, and post-release support.
Use AI and agentic workflows for design, coding, prototyping, test-case creation, documentation, and automated validation.
Lead client workshops, present technical solutions, make trade-off decisions, drive approvals, and act as a platform subject-matter expert.
Personally implement critical components and complex features, review implementation-team deliverables, and enforce code-quality and non-functional standards.
Produce ADRs, interface contracts, data models, sequencing diagrams, migration and rollback plans, and traceability matrices.
Mentor engineers on AI-assisted development, specification-driven design, Dual-Track workflows, and platform best practices.
Contribute to platform strategy, reusable assets, API-first designs, risk mitigation, backward compatibility, data integrity, and compliance.

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.
5+ years building cloud-native, microservices, or event-driven systems using Azure or equivalent cloud platforms.
Strong proficiency with Java/Spring Boot and TypeScript with React or Vue.
Experience owning end-to-end delivery for medium-to-large projects, including design, implementation, and post-release operations.
Strong experience with REST/OpenAPI, messaging platforms, SQL/NoSQL databases, CI/CD, containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, deployment tooling, automated testing, and AI-assisted workflows.
Practical experience using generative AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor with measurable delivery impact.
Strong stakeholder communication, mentoring, code review, technical leadership, and engineering-practice skills.
Preferred qualifications include retail POS and store-operations knowledge, Azure or equivalent cloud certifications, enterprise security and compliance experience, Dual-Track Agile leadership, platform strategy experience, and expertise with OpenAPI, UML+OCL, TLA+, or equivalent specifications.

Competitive benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; employee assistance programs; pre-tax spending accounts; 401(k) with company match; company-provided life insurance; pet insurance; employee discounts; and paid holidays, vacation, and sick/personal days.
Eligible for up to an 8% performance-based annual bonus.
The role is presented as a full-time position; no remote or office arrangement is specified.

1,001-5,000 employees