Lead Software Engineer

Brooksource; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Brooksource seeks a Technical Lead to provide architectural leadership for backend platform services, data-driven systems, and integrations. The role collaborates with senior back-end engineers, data engineers, product managers, and platform teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions aligned with long-term strategy.

The Technical Lead is a hands-on senior engineer who sets direction, drives design decisions, and remains actively involved in implementation, reviews, and operations

Qualifications

• Hands-on senior engineer with strong backend experience.
• Experience leading architecture and technical decisions for platform services.
• Experience with Python, AWS services, and data tooling.
• Ability to design scalable, reliable, and secure systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the technical architecture for platform services and data pipelines.
• Define reference architectures and platform standards.
• Lead design reviews and ensure scalability, reliability, and security.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

AWS

Data pipelines

System architecture

DevOps

Tools

Terraform

Kafka

AWS Lambda

ECS Fargate

AWS Glue

PySpark

Job description

We are seeking a Technical Lead to provide technical direction and architectural leadership for backend platform services, application integrations, and data driven systems. This role works closely with Senior Back End Software Engineers, data engineers, product managers, and platform teams to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned to long term platform strategy.

The Technical Lead is a hands‑on senior engineer who sets technical direction, drives design decisions, and raises the overall engineering bar—while remaining actively involved in implementation, reviews, and operational ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own and evolve the technical architecture for platform services, application integrations, and data pipelines
• Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and platform standards
• Lead technical design reviews and ensure solutions align with scalability, reliability, and security principles
• Balance short‑term delivery needs with longterm platform health and maintainability
• Act as and/or work with Product owner to create Epics and Stories to facilitate Developer execution.
• Perform ad‑hoc analysis of incoming features to help scope out efforts and align technical partners.
• Guide the design of shared backend services and integration layers used across teams
• Establish best practices for API design, eventdriven architectures, data contracts, and schema evolution
• Ensure consistent integration patterns across batch and realtime streaming systems
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex crosssystem integrations
• Contribute production quality code alongside the team using Python, FastAPI, and AWS services
• Design and review systems built with AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, Kafka, AWS Glue, and PySpark
• Guide data ingestion and transformation approaches using AWS DMS, streaming, and batch pipelines
• Ensure solutions are observable, testable, and operationally sound

Infrastructure, CI/CD & Platform Enablement

• Provide technical leadership for Terraformbased infrastructure as code
• Define standards and patterns for CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and environment management