Engineering Lead

Mindex

City of Rochester (NY)

On-site

USD 105,000 - 155,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Environment

Flexible Time Off

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) with Company Match

Company-Paid Life Insurance

Professional Development Opportunities

Job summary

Mindex is seeking a CT-MTSS Engineering Lead to guide a team responsible for ClearTrack and MTSS Edge products. This hands-on role combines leadership with technical execution, focusing on mentoring engineers and enhancing software practices.

Join a hybrid work environment that values innovation and collaboration, contributing to important software solutions that help organizations make data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership.
Experience developing web applications, APIs, and databases.
Proven experience in coaching engineers and delivering software applications.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
Guide the modernization of ClearTrack and MTSS Edge.
Contribute to software architecture, design, and production support.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software architecture

Coaching engineers

Modernization

RESTful APIs

CI/CD pipelines

Agile collaboration

AI-assisted development

Cloud technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitLab

Gradle

Ant

Job description

Mindex is looking for a CT-MTSS Engineering Lead to lead the engineering team responsible for our ClearTrack and MTSS Edge products. This is a hands-on player/coach role where you'll combine people leadership with technical execution, guiding engineers while actively contributing to software design, development, code reviews, troubleshooting, and delivery.

You’ll play a key role in modernizing a business-critical platform, strengthening engineering practices, expanding product knowledge across the team, and introducing AI-assisted development in a practical, measurable way. We’re looking for someone who enjoys mentoring others, solving complex technical challenges, and driving continuous improvement across people, process, and technology.

Compensation
$105,000 - $155,000

What You’ll Accomplish

Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers through regular one-on-ones, performance feedback, career development, and mentorship
Guide the modernization of ClearTrack and MTSS Edge while maintaining stability for existing customers
Foster a collaborative engineering culture that encourages accountability, shared ownership, and continuous learning
Contribute directly to software architecture, design, development, code reviews, production support, and technical troubleshooting
Document and expand application architecture, business rules, and product knowledge to reduce knowledge silos and strengthen long-term maintainability
Improve engineering practices by enhancing CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, release processes, automation, observability, and secure software development
Drive architectural decisions around APIs, web applications, data access, cloud technologies, and infrastructure modernization
Partner with Product, UX, QA, Support, CloudOps, and other engineering teams to prioritize work, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality solutions
Lead technical response efforts for production issues and customer-impacting incidents through investigation, communication, and resolution
Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development practices across planning, coding, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting while measuring team effectiveness and outcomes

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
5+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership and people management responsibilities
Proven experience coaching engineers, leading teams, and delivering business-critical software applications
Strong background in software architecture, legacy application modernization, and enterprise application development
Experience developing RESTful APIs, web applications, relational databases, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Experience improving CI/CD pipelines, source control, deployment automation, and release management using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, Gradle, Ant, or similar
Experience with cloud-hosted applications, containerization, monitoring, observability, and production support
Strong understanding of secure software development practices, OAuth 2.0, authentication, authorization, API security, and data protection
Ability to learn and support Progress OpenEdge ABL; prior Progress OpenEdge experience is strongly preferred but not required
Experience collaborating with Product, UX, QA, Support, CloudOps, and business stakeholders in an Agile environment
Experience adopting or leading AI-assisted software development workflows is strongly preferred

Why Join Mindex?

For more than 30 years, Mindex has helped organizations solve complex business challenges through custom software, cloud, data, and AI solutions. We combine deep technical expertise with a collaborative culture that empowers our employees to innovate, grow, and make a meaningful impact for our clients.

In our Product division, our teams have built platforms such as SchoolTool, Advanced Analytics, and our Integrations Platform from the ground up, while also supporting solutions like MTSS Edge and ClearTrack that help schools and organizations make smarter, data-driven decisions.