Lead Engineer, Full-Stack Engineering

MWI Animal Health; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 94,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Training programs

Mentorship programs

Volunteer activities

Job summary

Cencora seeks a senior software engineer to lead full-stack development across multiple initiatives, ensuring reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions. You will shape approaches, design APIs, and align work with domain priorities.

The role requires 6+ years of software or systems engineering and a Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred); cloud/certification experience is a plus. You will mentor engineers and drive improvements in CI/CD and engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, information technology, or equivalent experience required.
• Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, information technology, or equivalent experience preferred.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or a related field required.
• Certification in cloud platforms, systems architecture, Agile, DevOps preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads advanced full-stack engineering methods, frameworks, and standards for end-to-end solutions across initiatives.
• Analyzes full-stack requirements and design decisions to shape solution approaches and assess delivery risk and performance.
• Communicates architectural options, API design, and database considerations to stakeholders and partners as needed.
• Guides delivery by coordinating work across teams with limited oversight and ensuring consistent execution.
• Improves engineering processes, CI/CD pipelines, API standards, and operating methods to increase delivery efficiency.
• Mentors full-stack engineers, provides technical guidance, and strengthens code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Monitors outcomes and risks to identify issues and sustain progress across complex initiatives.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

APIs

Mentoring

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere.

Job Details

Leads advanced full-stack engineering methods, frameworks, and standards to deliver complex end-to-end solutions across multiple initiatives, ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, and alignment to domain priorities.

Analyzes full-stack application requirements, front-end and back-end capabilities, internal and external drivers, constraints, and tradeoffs to shape solution approaches and support decisions with significant implications for delivery, risk, and performance.

Communicates complex architectural options, API design decisions, database considerations, sequencing decisions, operating constraints, and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders, including external parties such as vendors or partners when needed.

Guides key full-stack engineering areas or capability components by organizing work with limited oversight, driving consistent execution, and supporting aligned delivery across connected teams and programs.

Improves full-stack engineering processes, development practices, and technical standards through automation, reusable patterns, CI/CD pipelines, API standards, and operating methods that increase delivery effectiveness and reduce rework.

Builds team capability by mentoring full-stack engineers across levels, providing technical guidance to emerging leaders, and strengthening consistency through code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Monitors domain-level application outcomes, delivery risks, performance signals, and integration health to identify issues early, inform corrective actions, and sustain progress across multiple complex initiatives.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience required. Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred. 6+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or a related field required. Certification in cloud platforms, systems architecture, Agile, DevOps preferred.

Full time

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Salary Range*

$93,500 - 187,000

• This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [e-mail]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

Affiliated Companies

MWI Veterinary Supply Company