Lead Software Engineer

Dollar General; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Dollar General is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and ship software that serves millions of users daily. The role involves migrating to cloud-native architectures, diagnosing issues, and documenting decisions.

A hybrid schedule is offered, with a focus on technology ownership and mentorship within the Orlando, FL team. The candidate should bring analytical thinking, a flexible attitude, resilience, and a growth mindset, with expertise in MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Laravel.

Qualifications

• Analytical thinking to translate ideas into prototypes.
• Willingness to learn new skills and adapt to changing needs.
• Strong resilience and reliability when debugging and scaling.
• Growth mindset with openness to feedback and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Translate napkin ideas into a working software prototype.
• Support migration from on-premise to cloud-native architecture.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Explain Spring Boot tradeoffs to technology stakeholders.
• Document architecture, decisions, and APIs for the organization.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Flexible attitude

Resilience

Growth mindset

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Laravel

Job description

Dollar General is hiring a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and ship software that serves millions of users every day. Everything here scales with you — $125,000 - $172,000 at 7 years, technology ownership soon after, and a Dollar General ladder above.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate a napkin idea from Dollar General founders into an Analytical Thinking question-everything prototype
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Walk technology stakeholders through Spring Boot tradeoffs in language Dollar General execs grasp
• Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the broader org

What You'll Bring

• A genuinely-flexible attitude and eagerness to learn new skills
• Enough Resilience to be dangerous, enough MongoDB to be trusted
• Strong working knowledge of PostgreSQL and Laravel
• A growth mindset and openness to constructive feedback

At Dollar General, a trust-based team in Orlando, FL has spent years proving that Analytical Thinking and Mentoring belong in the same conversation. We onboard you to the technology mission first and the Redis tooling second, in that order.

We answer the money question first with $125,000 - $172,000, then keep going with growth budgets, mentorship, and a flexible hybrid schedule.