Team Lead, Software Engineering

Team Lead - Software Engineering

Harvest Group is an integrated commerce agency that helps high-growth consumer brands win in today's complex retail landscape. Since 2006, we've partnered with some of the world's most recognized brands to navigate the intersection of in-store and digital commerce, retail media, and social platforms across leading retailers including Walmart, Sam's Club, Target, Amazon, Costco, and Kroger. What sets Harvest Group apart is our connected approach. By aligning strategy, execution, and insights across every stage of the retail journey—and powering that work through our proprietary technology platform—we help brands create sustainable growth in an increasingly dynamic marketplace. But our success starts with our people. At Harvest Group, our culture and values shape how we work, serve our clients, and support one another. We believe in building meaningful relationships, pursuing excellence with humility, and creating an environment where talented individuals can do their best work while continuing to grow professionally and personally. Our commitment to our people has earned recognition as one of the nation's best workplaces, including:

• Inc. Best Places to Work (2025, 2026)
• Great Place to Work Certified (2024)
• Fortune Best Workplaces for Women (2024)
• Fortune Best Medium Workplaces (2024)
• Fortune Best Consulting & Professional Services Workplaces (2024)
• Business Intelligence Group Best Places to Work (2023)

Our Values

• Integrity – Doing what is right in all things
• Relationship – Pursuing depth, trust, and collaboration
• Service – Laboring for others with humility and care
• Excellence – Delivering extraordinary performance and results with humility
• Journey – Embracing our past and planning for our future with faith

The Team Lead - Software Engineering role is responsible for crafting and owning valuable solutions to business problems. This role will create innovative software, adhere to best practices, and ensure the sustainability of enterprise-level applications. Our approach to servicing our employees is grounded in our values. To deliver excellence for our Harvest Group employees, we do require that this role is based in Rogers (AR) or Cincinnati (OH). If you are applying but do not currently reside in one of these markets, please note that relocation will not be covered by Harvest Group.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional software development team, overseeing project delivery, technical execution, and professional development of team members.
• Serve as technical lead on assigned projects, providing hands-on development support and architectural guidance alongside the team.
• Contribute directly to the design, development, and enhancement of new and existing software applications, ensuring solutions are aligned with business goals and enterprise architecture standards.
• Partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and other technology leaders to translate business needs into technical solutions and drive initiatives forward.
• Uphold and evolve Harvest's architectural standards, participating in system design discussions and ensuring adherence to best practices around scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, ensuring predictable delivery and continuous improvement.
• Manage team performance through goal setting, regular feedback, coaching, and career development planning.
• Mentor developers by providing guidance on technical challenges, code quality, and best practices, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.
• Participate in and facilitate code reviews, promoting high engineering standards, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues, balancing short-term fixes with long-term maintainable solutions.
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to support deployment, monitoring, and operational stability of applications.
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities related to delivery, process, or technology.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong track record of solving complex business problems.
• 2+ years of experience managing or leading software developers, including performance management and mentoring.
• Senior-level proficiency in C#,.NET, or related technologies, with the ability to design and implement production-ready solutions.
• Strong front-end development experience using JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS, or similar modern web technologies.
• Demonstrated understanding of software design principles, data structures, and common architectural and design patterns.
• Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments, including collaboration with product and business partners.
• Experience with DevOps practices, including source control, branching strategies, deployment approaches, and automated testing.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to balance hands-on development responsibilities with leadership and people management duties.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing or working within cloud-based architectures, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Experience participating in or supporting CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release automation.
• Previous experience acting as a technical lead or architect on medium to large-scale projects.
• Exposure to performance tuning, application monitoring, or production support in a live environment.

Our heart at Harvest is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusivity, authenticity, mutual respect, professionalism, and growth. Harvest Group is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, age, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, disability or handicap, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.