Software Team Lead (Remote)

Aretum is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth are at the forefront.

Aretum is seeking a Software Team Manager to join our team supporting a large-scale federal technology modernization program. As a Software Team Manager, you will be embedded full time within a single Agile scrum team alongside the team's Scrum Master, serving as the technical lead for the team's developers, frontend engineers, and testers. You will work directly with the team's federal Product Owner and Business Analysts to translate functional requirements into well-formed technical work, lead day-to-day technical decisions within the team's scope, drive code quality and Definition of Done across the team, and coordinate with the program's Solutions Architect on architecture-level questions. You will partner with the Scrum Master on detailed roadmap planning, resource allocation, and milestone reprioritization. You will support change management coordination through the federal change advisory process andparticipatein security controls review for the components your team owns. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a pure management role; you will spend time in code, indesign discussions, inpeer reviews,and inproduction support alongside the team you lead.

Serve as the technical lead for a single Agile scrum team, providing day-to-day technical direction to the team's developers, frontend engineers, and testers

Provide technical knowledge and analysis of the team's applications and operational environment, including high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, and implementation advice on moderately complex problems

Make day-to-day architectural decisions within the team's scope, escalating to the Solutions Architect and Cloud Architect for cross-team or program-wide architectural questions

Drive code quality on the team byestablishingand enforcing peer code review discipline, ensuring no merge request is approved without review by a peer developer

Own the team's Definition of Done, ensuring it covers code review, testing, security scans, accessibility validation, and documentation, and ensuring the team consistently meets it

Maintain test code coverage standards on the team's codebase (target minimum 90 percent with branch coverage enabled), andSonarQubequality gate compliance for Bugs, Code Smells, and Vulnerabilities

Support GitLab CI/CD pipelines for the team's services, including build, test, scan, and deployment stages, and ensure the team's deployments are fully automated

Partner with the team's Scrum Master and Business Analyst on detailed roadmap maintenance for the team's Epic area, providing technical level-of-effort estimates, resource allocation input, and milestone reprioritization recommendations

Participate fully in SAFe Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement), bringing the technical perspective to estimation, dependency identification, and acceptance discussions

Support change management documentation and coordination through the federal change advisory process (typically a ServiceNow-based workflow), working with the federal Project Manager to ensure release approvals are in place in advance of each release

Attendchangeadvisory meetings as requested to provide technical details supporting release approvals

Lead remediation of security vulnerabilitiesidentifiedthrough routine security scanning within requiredtimeframes(30 calendar days for High-Priority, 180 calendar days for Medium-Priority), coordinating fixes across the team

Support Tier-2 and Tier-3 production issue resolution for components owned by the team, leading triage discussions, coordinating fixes, and verifying resolution

Coordinate with Triage Engineers, the Solutions Architect, and federal Product Management on production issues that affect the team's components, contributing to root cause analysis and preventive improvements

Support security architecture documentation for the team's components in support of Authority to Operate (ATO) maintenance, in coordination with the federal Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and the Solutions Architect

Ensure technical documentation for the team's services (APIs, data models, deployment operations, runbooks) is current and accessible in the program's collaboration tools

Mentor team developers through pairing, design review, and constructive code review, helping the team grow technically and supporting onboarding of new team members

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or 3 years ofadditionalexperience)

Minimum 2 years of professional software engineering experience

Demonstrated experience as a technical lead or senior developer on an Agile scrum team, including providing technical direction to other developers and owning code quality

Hands-on experience developing production backend or full-stack web applications in Java and/or Python

Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design and SQL tuning

Working experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch for search indexing

Hands-on experience with containerized microservices in AWS (Elastic Container Service, RDS, S3, SNS, SQS, and related services)

Working experience with GitLab (or equivalent) source control and CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, scan, and deployment stages

Working experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including active participation in sprint ceremonies and backlog refinement

Experience working in a SAFe environment with multiple synchronized Scrum teams and Program Increment (PI) planning

Experience with Spring Boot or comparable Java application frameworks for building REST APIs

Experience with Angular frontends and end-to-end debugging across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers

Experience supporting federal change advisory processes (typically ServiceNow-based), including authoring changedocumentationand presenting at change advisory meetings

Experience with AWS architectural patterns including VPC isolation, application load balancers, and private-subnet container hosting

AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Developer - Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate)

Experience with container image scanning, SAST/DAST tooling, and integration of security scanning into CI/CD pipelines

Travel Requirements

This is a remote position; however, occasional travel may berequiredbased on project needs, client meetings, team collaboration events, or training sessions.Travel is expected to be less than 10% and will be communicated in advance whenever possible.

We adhere to merit-based hiring practices, ensuring that all employment decisions are made based on qualifications, skills, and ability to perform the job, without preference or consideration of factors unrelated to job performance.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Aretumcomplies withall applicable federal, state, and local employment laws.

We are proud to support our nation’s veterans and military families,providingcareer opportunities that honor their service and experience.

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S. citizensorcurrently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.This position supports a federalgovernment contract and requires the ability to obtain andmaintaina Public Trust or Suitability Determination, depending on the agency’s background investigation requirements.Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

Retirement Plan (401k)

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)

Short Term & Long-Term Disability

Training & Development