Lead Software Engineer

Eliassen Group; Edison (NJ); On-site; USD 206,309,000 - 229,233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life Insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group in New Jersey seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and lead a critical enterprise application, combining leadership with hands-on development across middleware, web services, and SQL Server.

The role entails driving architectural decisions, designing, testing, and supporting solutions, and handling operational data requests including large-scale updates. On-site four days a week; W2 and corp-to-corp options available.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Expert-level SQL Server skills with complex queries, joins, data analysis, data mining, performance tuning, and large-scale update scripts.
• Strong middleware and web services experience, including service-layer architecture and integrations.
• Full-stack background with Java/J2EE 8+, Spring MVC, REST, JMS, JBOSS, ESB (Mule), JSON, MyBatis, XML, XSLT, SOAP, Maven.
• AWS knowledge is a plus, including Lambda and S3.
• Ability to design maintainable solutions and produce comprehensive technical documentation.
• Demonstrated leadership, ownership, independent execution, and effective communication across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own an enterprise application, serving as the primary technical leader.
• Design, re-design, code, test, debug, configure, and document software solutions for insurance business needs.
• Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, feasible, and unambiguous.
• Collaborate with business analysts, project managers, QA, and third parties including data providers and software vendors.
• Create project inputs for plans, estimates, and schedules, and deliver organized presentations.
• Perform impact analysis and apply design methodologies and best practices.
• Proactively identify and resolve quality and performance issues across environments.
• Research, coordinate, and track issues to resolution, including production performance concerns.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Independent execution

Team collaboration

Tools

SQL Server

Java/J2EE

Spring MVC

REST

Mule ESB

JBoss

Maven

JSON/XML

AWS (Lambda,S3)

Job description

Our client seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and lead a critical enterprise application. The role requires leadership, application ownership, and hands-on development across middleware, web services, and SQL Server. The engineer will design, develop, test, and support solutions, drive architectural decisions, and handle operational data requests, including large-scale SQL updates. The position is on-site four days per week in New Jersey and will require on-site interviews.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $72.00 to $80.00/hr. w2

JN -072026-107963

Responsibilities

• Lead and own an enterprise application, serving as the primary technical leader.
• Design, re-design, code, test, debug, configure, and document software solutions for insurance business needs.
• Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, feasible, and unambiguous.
• Collaborate with business analysts, project managers, QA, and third parties including data providers and software vendors.
• Create project inputs for plans, estimates, and schedules, and deliver organized presentations.
• Perform impact analysis and apply design methodologies and best practices.
• Proactively identify and resolve quality and performance issues across environments.
• Research, coordinate, and track issues to resolution, including production performance concerns.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Expert-level SQL Server skills, including complex queries, joins, data analysis, data mining, performance tuning, and large-scale update scripts. Experience with DB2 and MS SQL Server.
• Strong middleware and web services experience, including service-layer architecture and integrations.
• Full-stack background with Java/J2EE 8+, Spring MVC, REST, JMS, JBOSS, ESB (Mule), JSON, MyBatis, XML, XSLT, SOAP, Maven.
• AWS knowledge is a plus, including Lambda, S3, and application development for AWS.
• Ability to design maintainable solutions and produce comprehensive technical documentation.
• Demonstrated leadership, ownership, independent execution, and effective communication across stakeholders.