Sr. Lead Software Engineer

DescriptionTyler Technologies is looking for a Sr. Lead Software Engineer at 5101 Tennyson Pkwy, Plano, TX 75024 to perform the following job duties:Partner with team leadership to define short- and long-term technical goals and execution plans. Provide technical input for strategic decisions, acting as a trusted technical advisor. Participate effectively in cross-organizational panels and boards, contributing to a common solution that ensures divisional and team requirements are met. Produce high-level technical analysis and end-to-end designs that solve complex problems and result in well-integrated application systems. Create clear design specifications for proposed changes and participate in architectural reviews to align solutions across teams. Gather, clarify, and validate requirements with internal and external stakeholders for complex initiatives. Translate requirements into actionable technical plans that teams can execute with confidence. Research and design required infrastructure for projects, including cost estimates and required Terraform modules. Lead and actively participate in the team’s infrastructure and architectural engineering responsibilities, driving key design decisions and technical direction. Build reference implementations for complex approaches and reusable patterns that others can extend safely and consistently. Write clear, detailed program specifications that allow junior engineers to implement the solution with minimal additional guidance. Ensure all planned work includes clear quality expectations, appropriate testing accommodations, and thorough integration/impact analysis, ensuring deliverables are high-quality and all downstream effects are identified and addressed. Drive the most challenging technical efforts by coordinating work across engineers, setting schedules, monitoring progress, and providing status updates to leadership. Ensure solutions to complex initiatives are high quality, adequately tested, and delivered in a maintainable, supportable way. Guide and review integrations with external systems, third-party services, and advanced technology platforms to ensure reliability and correctness. Mentor Lead and Senior Engineers by strengthening their technical depth and strategic thinking, with an emphasis on organizational impact and scalable decision-making. Lead performance analysis and optimization when bottlenecks are identified. Validate scaling plans and ensure systems are designed to meet growth and reliability needs. Assess emerging tools, frameworks, and practices for fit and readiness, and recommend adoption where beneficial. Establish technical quality standards, validate adherence through periodic reviews, and serve as the final technical authority for complex design and implementation decisions. Identify and mitigate key risks such as architectural debt, security vulnerabilities, and scalability constraints. Provide sophisticated solutions to the hardest problems—especially those others cannot resolve—while raising the technical bar for the team. May telecommute from any location in the United States. This position requires an Associate’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computer Information Systems and 4 years of experience in the following: Micro-service architecture; AWS Services (Aurora RDS with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambdas, API Gateway, and EventBridge); .NET / C#; TypeScript; HTML; CSS; REST APIs; Authentication patterns (OIDC and OAuth2); SQL; Git; GitHub Actions; Deployment patterns using Argo CD.Please send resume to Attn: HR, Tyler Technologies, at 5101 Tennyson Pkwy, Plano, TX 75024 or apply here: . Please refer to #JM26 in your cover letter.