Lead Developer - Remote

Lead Developer

Location: Remote

Duration: Long-term Contract Work

Eligibility: US Permanent Eligibility to Work Required

Job Description

• Creating a fully touchless CI/CD pipeline from code commit to production.
• Consolidating all repositories into GitHub.
• Migrating ~30% of services during the engagement.
• Implementing enterprise-scale feature flag governance using LaunchDarkly.
• Establishing automated quality gates, smoke/regression checks, canary releases, and end-to-end monitoring.
• Serve as the primary driver and owner of LaunchDarkly implementation across ~150 internal developers.
• Conduct workshops, onboarding, best-practice sessions, and adoption governance.
• Navigate significant organizational pushback; must be able to influence and stand firm with senior engineers.
• Collaborate closely with DevOps teams to align feature flag rollout with pipeline automation.
• Help define patterns for progressive delivery, release strategies, deployment safety, and experimentation frameworks.
• Coordinate with engineering leadership to ensure adoption across multiple squads.
• Support modernization efforts tied to GitHub consolidation and CI/CD standardization.
• Participate in planning discussions for migration timelines, tool adoption, and technical governance models.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with LaunchDarkly or equivalent feature flagging frameworks (Split, Unleash, etc.).
• Strong experience driving end-to-end technical delivery in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives, drive adoption with resistant engineering groups and create and deliver workshops, governance models, and rollout plans.
• Experience designing or implementing feature rollout strategies and release governance.
• Strong ability to collaborate with DevOps, QA, and application teams to ensure consistent rollout of platform capabilities
• Solid understanding of SDLC, release management, and software engineering practices
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build alignment across engineering stakeholders, influence senior developers and architecture teams.

Preferred/Nice to Have Skills

• Hands-on DevOps engineering background.
• Experience with large-scale codebase consolidation.
• Prior experience with cloud environments supporting CI/CD automation.
• Strong architectural understanding of microservices, service rollout strategies, and progressive delivery.