Development Lead: Cloud-Native AI Modernization Remote

Cogency Global; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Structured 9–5 schedule

Job summary

Cogency Global is modernizing its technology stack for corporate, legal, and compliance services. We seek a development lead who can take a mature platform and move it to a cloud-native architecture while keeping the business running.

You will write production code, tackle hard PRs, and guide architectural decisions that stay sound years ahead. Location is flexible and leadership matters as much as what you build.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software, including leading delivery teams.
• Led modernization of a legacy platform to a cloud-native architecture, with documented outcomes.
• Expert in Java or C#, with fluency in the other; experience with AWS and IaC.
• Experience designing APIs and event-driven integrations.
• Demonstrated skill with AI-assisted development tools and responsible usage practices.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical anchor of a scrum team: own design, breakdown of work, and delivery quality within architecture boundaries.
• Carve services out of a tightly coupled legacy estate using strangler and anti-corruption patterns.
• Shape API and event contracts, defining synchronous vs asynchronous integration, data ownership, idempotency, and failure handling.
• Design for operation in AWS from day one: infrastructure as code, pipelines, telemetry, recovery testing, security and cost visibility.
• Set how AI coding assistants and agents are used day to day, with quality gates and shared accountability.
• Coach through mentoring, design reviews, and code reviews to raise the team's capability in AWS and modern delivery.
• Collaborate with technology leadership to set direction, standards, and quality for the team.
• Partner with product owners, architects, and operations to sequence work around business risk.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on delivery

Architectural design

AI-assisted development

Scrum

Communication

Tools

AWS

CDK

Terraform

Job description

Cogency Global is modernizing its technology stack for corporate, legal, and compliance services. We seek a development lead who can take a mature platform and move it to a cloud-native architecture while keeping the business running.

You will write production code, tackle hard PRs, and guide architectural decisions that stay sound years ahead. Location is flexible and leadership matters as much as what you build.