Lead Developer

Seneca Resources; New York (NY); Remote; USD 97,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Seneca Resources seeks a Lead Developer for a remote role to guide technical direction on NextEra Energy Analytics projects. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, full-stack delivery, and leadership across teams.

You will collaborate with business and technical stakeholders, shaping architectural decisions and mentoring junior engineers. The position is a 12-month staff augmentation with a contract-to-hire mindset, offering a strong internal leadership track while delivering enterprise-grade

Qualifications

• Lead software developer with hands-on coding experience
• Full-stack experience; backend-heavy acceptable
• Mentoring developers and providing technical direction
• Some application/solution architecture exposure
• Must actively code and deliver software
• Strong Python development in enterprise apps
• Vue.js preferred; React acceptable
• AWS and/or GCP experience
• APIs and microservices experience
• AI-assisted development tools usage
• Agentic AI / LangGraph / RAG experience

Skills

Lead software developer

Full-stack

Technical leadership

Architectural direction

Active coding

Python

JavaScript (Vue.js)

JavaScript (React)

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

APIs / microservices

AI tools

AI/ML tooling (Copilot etc.)

Tools

Python

Vue.js

React

AWS

GCP

APIs

Microservices

Copilot/Cursor/Claude

LangGraph/RAG

Job description

• 12-month staff augmentation engagement supporting the NextEra Energy Analytics team.
• Contract-to-hire mindset. We are looking for candidates that we would be excited to have join our team long term.
• Candidates should be comfortable working directly with business and technical stakeholders.
• Customer prioritizes both technical capability and leadership/communication skills.
• Candidates should expect a four-step evaluation process:
• Kyndryl technical panel interview
• Kyndryl VP interview
• Customer manager interview
• Customer technical lead interview (at customer discretion)
• Advancement is based on both technical depth and the ability to demonstrate leadership, engineering judgment, communication skills, and customer-facing presence.

Lead Developer - Remote

Pay: $85/hr

Process / Engagement Expectations

• 12-month staff augmentation engagement supporting the NextEra Energy Analytics team.
• Contract-to-hire mindset. We are looking for candidates that we would be excited to have join our team long term.
• Candidates should be comfortable working directly with business and technical stakeholders.
• Customer prioritizes both technical capability and leadership/communication skills.
• Candidates should expect a four-step evaluation process:
• Kyndryl technical panel interview
• Kyndryl VP interview
• Customer manager interview
• Customer technical lead interview (at customer discretion)
• Advancement is based on both technical depth and the ability to demonstrate leadership, engineering judgment, communication skills, and customer-facing presence.

Technical Must-Haves

• lead software developer with substantial hands-on coding experience
• full-stack experience (backend-heavy is acceptable; does not need to be an equal split)
• lead developer experience with responsibility for technical direction and mentoring developers
• some application architect or solution architect experience
• must still be actively coding and delivering software (not a dedicated architect)
• strong hands-on Python development experience in enterprise applications
• Vue.js preferred; React or similar modern JavaScript framework acceptable
• AWS and/or GCP experience
• API and microservices experience
• AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)
• agentic AI, MCP, LangGraph, or RAG experience

Technical Nice-to-Haves

• experience with both AWS and GCP
• Terraform / infrastructure as code
• Kubernetes / containerization
• CI/CD and DevOps experience
• application modernization experience

Non-Technical Must-Haves

• engineering judgment and decision-making
• architecture ownership
• technical leadership and mentoring
• ability to explain technical tradeoffs
• strong communication skills
• customer-facing presence
• ability to work independently
• ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions

About Seneca Resources

Seneca Resources is client driven provider of strategic Information Technology consulting services and Workforce Solutions to government and industry. Seneca Resources is a leading IT services provider with offices in Reston, Virginia, Alabama and Columbia, Maryland that service clients throughout the United States. The key to our success lies within our strong corporate culture which drives our business. We challenge our staff through engaging work, and we reward our staff through competitive compensation, extensive professional training, and excellent opportunities for career advancement. In turn, we look for only the best and brightest to join our team. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value the benefits of diversity in our workplace.