Lead Software Engineer

Title : Engineering Team Lead / Lead Software Engineer
Location : DC Metro Area
Target Start Date : ASAP
Type : contract
Pay Rate : DOE

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Team Lead / Lead Software Engineer to lead the development and operation of a large-scale enterprise identity and access management platform.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining software development and architecture with team leadership and delivery ownership. The ideal candidate is an accomplished full-stack engineer who can set technical direction, make architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and remain actively involved in building complex applications.

The technology environment includes Java/Spring Boot microservices, Angular micro-frontends, AWS cloud infrastructure, workflow automation, CI/CD, and enterprise testing frameworks.

The role is approximately 50-60% hands-on engineering and architecture and 40-50% technical leadership, planning, and stakeholder collaboration.

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture across backend services, front-end applications, data, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.
• Establish architectural standards, engineering patterns, and development best practices.
• Lead technical design and architecture reviews and guide decisions around scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Establish standards for availability, observability, accessibility, and application security.
• Lead framework upgrades, modernization initiatives, and technical-debt reduction.
• Partner with security, compliance, product, and other technology teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise and regulatory requirements.

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to a team of software engineers.
• Establish a strong engineering culture centered on code quality, testing, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Lead and improve code-review practices.
• Break down complex initiatives, estimate and sequence work, and manage the team's technical backlog.
• Identify and remove technical blockers while keeping delivery initiatives on track.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, security, architecture, and other cross-functional teams.

• Design, develop, and maintain Java/Spring Boot microservices and enterprise APIs.
• Build and enhance Angular/TypeScript applications and micro-frontends .
• Develop RESTful and reactive APIs using technologies such as Spring WebFlux .
• Implement secure authentication, authorization, entitlement, MFA, LDAP, and related identity-management capabilities.
• Build and operate cloud-native applications using AWS .
• Design and maintain relational database schemas, integrations, and migrations.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and code-quality initiatives.
• Take ownership of complex, high-risk technical implementations and production issues.

• Coordinate releases across multiple applications, services, and repositories.
• Champion application observability, operational readiness, and effective incident response.
• Continuously improve engineering processes, development tooling, automation, and delivery efficiency.
• Support production troubleshooting and technical escalations as needed.

• 12 years of professional software development experience, including ownership of complex enterprise applications.
• 3 years of experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, Engineering Team Lead, or similar technical leadership role.
• Advanced expertise in Java and Spring Boot, including Spring Security, WebFlux, Data JPA/Hibernate, and related frameworks.
• Strong Angular and TypeScript experience, ideally Angular 16 , including RxJS and modern component architecture.
• Experience designing and developing microservices and RESTful/reactive APIs.
• Hands-on AWS experience with services such as ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, SQS, Lambda, S3, and load balancing.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, SQL, Hibernate/JPA, and database migrations.
• Experience with Docker, Git, Maven, CI/CD, GitLab CI and/or Jenkins.
• Experience with automated testing, code-quality practices, and tools such as SonarQube and JaCoCo.
• Demonstrated experience owning system-level architecture and making complex technical trade-off decisions.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and improve engineering standards.
• Experience coordinating complex releases and modernization or framework-upgrade initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), including authentication, authorization, entitlements, MFA, and LDAP.
• Experience with enterprise identity platforms such as PingOne.
• Experience with BPM/workflow technologies and BPMN-based workflow engines.
• Experience designing and supporting micro-frontend architectures.
• Experience with Elasticsearch.
• Experience with performance and automated testing tools such as Gatling and Playwright.
• Experience with feature-management or progressive-delivery platforms such as LaunchDarkly.
• Familiarity with GraphQL/Apollo.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted software development tools, MCP-based solutions, or similar AI engineering technologies.
• Experience working in a highly regulated or security-focused enterprise environment.
• AWS or other relevant cloud/architecture certifications are a plus.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on technical leader who is equally comfortable designing architecture, writing production code, mentoring engineers, and communicating with stakeholders. You should be able to establish a clear technical vision while remaining pragmatic about delivery timelines, technical debt, and business priorities.

You will bring a strong sense of ownership, sound technical judgment, and the ability to balance quality, security, scalability, and speed while helping the engineering team continuously improve.

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