Lead Platform Developer

Synergy; United States; On-site; USD 86,000 - 123,305; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

HSA

FSA

401(k) with company match

PTO/Sick Leave

11 federal holidays

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Referral bonus

Life management programs

Job summary

Synergy is seeking a Lead Platform Developer to own architecture, scalability, and reliability of the core platform. You will lead a small team of engineers, define platform standards, and build highly available services and tooling that accelerate product teams.

This role blends hands-on development with technical leadership. You will mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and drive engineering best practices while collaborating across product, SRE, security, and QA to deliver platform

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of software engineering experience with platform or distributed systems focus.
• Proficient in at least one backend language (C#/.NET, Java/Kotlin, Go, Node.js, Python).
• Strong experience with cloud, containers, and CI/CD.
• Hands-on with IaC and environment management.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, observability, and data pipelines.
• Experience leading projects and mentoring engineers.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and Kafka.
• API design with REST/GraphQL/gRPC and testing.
• Security depth and secrets management.
• Data platform familiarity and SRE practices.
• Knowledge of SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP.
• Performance tuning and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform architecture: design and evolve cloud-native, multi-tenant, secure platform components.
• Lead the team: mentor engineers, reviews, improve engineering practices.
• Build platform capabilities: authentication/authorization, service discovery, configuration, observability, DX pipelines.
• Reliability at scale: implement SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, chaos testing; healthcare benchmarking.
• Security by design: secure coding, secrets management, dependency hygiene, compliance needs.
• Data platform collaboration: partner with data teams on streaming and warehousing.
• Technical strategy: set roadmaps, deprecate legacy systems, modernization guidance.
• Cross-functional collaboration: work with product engineering, SRE, security, QA, architecture.
• Incident leadership: lead severity incidents, postmortems, preventive improvements.

Skills

Backend languages

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

IaC

Distributed systems

Observability

Leadership

Communication

Event-driven

API design

Security

Data platforms

SRE

Cost optimization

Education

BS in CS/IT

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

ARM/Bicep

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

Synergy Business Innovation & Solutions is a premier implementer of cutting‑edge software solutions. Synergy brings the experience and expertise necessary to deliver capability that provides tangible ROI to our customers. Synergy’s core areas of expertise are in the fields of Digital Transformation, Cloud Solutions, SaaS and Low‑Code/No‑Code solutions, Emerging Technologies, Data analytics and Visualization, Information Assurance, and Business Process Re‑Engineering.

Synergy offers its employees a generous portfolio of core and voluntary benefits including: group medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life, short‑term, and long‑term disability insurance; HSA, FSA; 401(k) with immediately vested company match; PTO/Sick Leave, 11 paid federal holidays, parental leave; tuition and training reimbursement; a referral bonus program; and life management programs.

At Synergy, you’ll be challenged and given the opportunity to grow in your career path. In fact, growth is such a big deal to us that you will have dedicated career coaches available for every employee, company‑funded certification opportunities, education reimbursement, and a general open‑door policy so that you have support when you need it. Our team is eager to learn, fast‑paced, and quality‑driven—if that sounds like you, Synergy has a position for you!

**This position is designated as work‑from‑home.**

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Lead Platform Developer to own the architecture, scalability, and reliability of our core platform. You’ll lead a small team of engineers, define platform standards and patterns, and build highly available services and tooling that accelerate product teams. This role is part hands‑on development, part technical leadership, and part cross‑functional influence.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the platform architecture: Design and evolve cloud‑native, multi‑tenant, secure platform components (APIs, services, eventing, data pipelines, shared libraries).
• Lead the team: Mentor engineers, lead code/design reviews, improve engineering practices, and drive continuous improvement.
• Build platform capabilities: Authentication/authorization, service discovery, configuration, observability, feature flags, rollout/rollback tooling, and developer experience (DX) pipelines.
• Reliability at scale: Implement SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and chaos/resiliency testing; drive performance benchmarking and capacity planning.
• Security by design: Champion secure coding, secrets management, dependency hygiene, and compliance needs (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI—depending on domain).
• Data platform collaboration: Partner with data teams on streaming (e.g., Kafka), warehousing, schema governance, and data contracts.
• Technical strategy: Evaluate build vs. buy, set platform roadmaps, deprecate legacy systems, and guide modernization.
• Cross‑functional collaboration: Work closely with product engineering, SRE, security, QA, and architecture to deliver platform capabilities that product teams love.
• Incident leadership: Lead severity incidents, postmortems, and drive preventive improvements.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of software engineering experience, with 2–4+ years in platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems roles referred
• Expert in at least one backend language (e.g., C#/.NET, Java/Kotlin, Go, Node.js, Python).
• Strong with cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/GitLab CI/Jenkins).
• Hands‑on with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, or ARM/Bicep) and environment management.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: idempotency, backpressure, eventual consistency, retries/circuit breakers, caching.
• Proven experience designing observability (logging, metrics, tracing) with tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Experience leading projects, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams.
• Clear, concise communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience with event‑driven architectures, Kafka/PubSub, or service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
• API design expertise (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), versioning, and contract testing (PACT).
• Security depth: OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, policy‑as‑code (OPA), secrets management (Vault/SM/Key Vault).
• Data platform familiarity: CDC, streaming ETL, lakehouse/warehouse patterns.
• Reliability practices: SRE, SLOs/error budgets, chaos engineering.
• Regulated environments (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI‑DSS, FedRAMP) and audit‑readiness.
• Performance profiling and cost‑optimization at scale.

Citizenship or Work Authorization Required:

• Ability to attain Federal Government Position of Trust.
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Must pass a background investigation.

Required Education, certification & Experience:

• A BS degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science, from an ABET accredited or CAE designated institution fulfills the educational requirement .

Note: The U.S. Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs located at https://amspub.abet.org/aps/name-search?searchType=institution identifies accredited postsecondary institutions. In Lieu of education requirement listed, candidate must have the required certification or will obtain required certification within 6 months of the start date. Certification requirement(s) for this role is AN IASAE II certification (CASP+CE, CLSSP associate) or CSSLP.

Preferred Education & Experience:

• Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that directly relates to the required area of expertise. Compensation for roles at Synergy varies depending on a wide variety of factors including but not limited to the requirements of the role; education and certifications; knowledge, training, skills and abilities; level of experience; geographic location; and alignment with market data, law, and other business and organizational needs. As required by local law, the posted pay range represents the lowest to the highest pay that Synergy believes in good faith it might pay for this particular job, depending on the circumstances. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

Compensation for roles at Synergy varies depending on a wide variety of factors including but not limited to the requirements of the role; education and certifications; knowledge, training, skills and abilities; level of experience; geographic location; and alignment with market data, law, and other business and organizational needs. As required by local law, the posted pay range represents the lowest to the highest pay that Synergy believes in good faith it might pay for this particular job, depending on the circumstances. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

Compensation for roles at Synergy varies depending on a wide variety of factors including but not limited to the requirements of the role; education and certifications; knowledge, training, skills and abilities; level of experience; geographic location; and alignment with market data, law, and other business and organizational needs. As required by local law, the posted pay range represents the lowest to the highest pay that Synergy believes in good faith it might pay for this particular job, depending on the circumstances. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

A reasonable estimate of the current pay range is: $86,000-$123,305.00

Essential Job Function Physical Requirements:

The physical requirements of this position are critical in evaluating the qualifications and abilities of an applicant or employee. The physical efforts needed to perform the essential duties of this job 90% of the time are repetitive motions, grasping, holding, and finger dexterity of the hands, reading, writing, eye‑hand coordination, color distinction, and full visual abilities, hearing, talking, sitting, and use of IT equipment, phones, and office machines.

To a reduced degree, <30% of the time, candidates may have to stand, walk, lift 0-30 pounds, push or pull objects, climb stairs, bend, squat, reach, drive a car, or work overtime.

Synergy is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate against applicants for employment or its employees on the basis of age, race (including hair texture/style), creed, color, religion, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, sex, medical condition, pregnancy (childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), physical or mental disability, personal appearance, organ donation and hair length associated with race, genetic information or characteristics, family responsibilities, familial status, marital status, citizenship or immigration status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sexual offense, or stalking, political affiliation, arrest records and criminal convictions, credit information, matriculation, homeless status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state and local law. Discrimination or harassment based upon these protected categories is expressly prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including job selection, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.