Lead Full-Stack Engineer | Python, React & Azure AI

Jobot Consulting; West Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Weekly payroll and direct deposit

Dedicated Jobot support

Access to long-term and contract-to-hì

Opportunities to work with innovative技

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer to serve as a senior hands-on contributor and technical leader within a modern application development team. The role focuses on application modernization of ~40 existing apps and new AI-enabled development using React, Python, SQL, and Azure.

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on development experience, strong architecture expertise, and proficiency with Azure services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional full-stack software development experience, including recent senior- or lead-level hands-on development.
• Strong experience with React, Python, SQL, and modern web application development.
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting applications within Microsoft Azure.
• Proven ability to make architecture and technology decisions.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain production applications using React and React Native on the frontend, Python on the backend, SQL/Azure SQL for data management, and Microsoft Azure for cloud services and hosting.
• Remain hands-on with development, delivering production-quality code and complex technical solutions.
• Own solutions end-to-end, from requirements gathering and technical design through implementation, deployment, and support.
• Develop new applications and capabilities aligned with evolving business needs.
• Write clean, scalable, secure, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues involving performance, reliability, integrations, security, and scalability.
• Lead modernization efforts across a portfolio of approximately 40 legacy and existing applications.
• Evaluate applications and recommend whether they should be refactored, re-platformed, rebuilt, consolidated, or retired.
• Define appropriate technology stacks, architectures, Azure services, and hosting models.
• Lead migrations from legacy technologies, including ColdFusion, to modern cloud-native solutions.
• Design solutions that fully leverage Azure capabilities rather than simply relocating legacy systems to the cloud.
• Assess dependencies, integrations, databases, security requirements, scalability needs, performance considerations, and technical debt.
• Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to establish scalable, secure, and maintainable Azure environments.
• Lead architecture and technical design efforts for new applications, modernization initiatives, and major enhancements.
• Design and deploy solutions using technologies such as Azure Container Apps, App Service, Azure SQL, Entra ID, and related Azure services.
• Evaluate hosting strategies based on scalability, security, maintainability, performance, and cost.
• Develop and maintain architecture, design, integration, and deployment documentation.
• Implement and support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep where appropriate.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and cloud services.
• Contribute to the design and development of AI-enabled applications, features, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to integrate AI into existing and future solutions.
• Utilize Claude Code and Claude CI as part of modern engineering workflows.
• Apply AI tools for code generation, refactoring, modernization, testing, debugging, documentation, and code review.
• Help establish best practices for responsible and effective AI adoption.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend high-value use cases.
• Promote strong engineering practices, including code reviews, automated testing, reusable components, and architectural standards.
• Build and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and related tools.
• Drive technical debt reduction, vulnerability remediation, performance improvements, and production stability.
• Champion secure software development practices.
• Improve development efficiency through automation and AI-assisted tooling.
• Provide technical leadership while remaining an active contributor.
• Mentor developers through design reviews, architecture discussions, pairing sessions, and code reviews.
• Help remove technical roadblocks and guide teams through complex challenges.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and workload planning.
• Partner with leadership on application strategy, technology selection, technical hiring, and onboarding.
• Clearly communicate technical recommendations and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

React

Python

SQL

Azure

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng/IT

Tools

Claude Code

Claude CI

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Job description

Jobot is seeking a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer to serve as a senior hands-on contributor and technical leader within a modern application development team. The role focuses on application modernization of ~40 existing apps and new AI-enabled development using React, Python, SQL, and Azure.

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on development experience, strong architecture expertise, and proficiency with Azure services.