Software Engineer Lead

Job Title: Software Engineer Lead Duration: 6+ Months Location: Birmingham, Alabama (commutable distance to Birmingham only. 5 days onsite and onsite interview) Pay: $55-60/hr on Vendor W2 Roles and Responsibilities This role requires a principal-level individual contributor with deep expertise in Angular and the ability to rapidly understand and operate within our Harmony framework, including assessing and remediating impacts of Angular version upgrades, managing breaking changes, and defining migration paths. The individual will design and govern enterprise-scale frontend architecture, establishing standard, reusable UI patterns using modular design, micro-frontend approaches, and shared component strategies. Acting as a cross-team technical leader without direct authority, they will influence decisions, serve as an escalation point for Angular/Harmony risks, and coordinate complex framework upgrades across multiple applications while managing dependencies such as the Ledger Component Library and Angular version alignment. They will define and enforce coding standards, upgrade guardrails, and best practices aligned with developer framework standards, security, and compliance mandates. Strong communication skills are essential to translate platform constraints into actionable guidance for developers, architects, and engineering leaders, and to clearly articulate tradeoffs during planning. The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of enterprise engineering experience and is recognized as a technical authority in modern frontend frameworks. Must Have Technical Skills (8-10 years required) Angular Microservices Kubernetes/Containers CI/CD Jenkins Bitbucket JIRA Led or contributed to large, multi-app migrations Comfortable estimating and sequencing portfolio-wide technical change Proven experience designing and governing frontend architecture at enterprise scale Flex Skills / Nice to Have MongoDB Oracle Kafka Agile Micron (microservices framework) API enablement patterns Ledger UI components Knowledge of REST API Education / Certifications Bachelor’s Degree or qualifying experience Interested candidates send your resume to View email address on click.appcast.io #J-18808-Ljbffr