Lead Software Engineer

Career Soft Solutions Inc; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Soft Solutions Inc. seeks a highly technical Lead Software Engineer to drive design, modernization, and operational excellence of cloud-native platforms.

You will lead architecture decisions across microservices, cloud infra, DevOps, observability, resiliency, and security while contributing to code, deployments, and platform modernization.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of software engineering experience
• Strong cloud-native architecture and design experience
• Experience with Azure, Docker/Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams and collaborate with stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise-scale cloud and application architectures.
• Establish architecture standards, security controls, and development best practices.
• Drive high-availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency strategies.
• Review solution designs and perform architecture governance.
• Lead design and development of RESTful and event-driven APIs and microservices.
• Guide and contribute to cloud deployments, observability, and platform modernization initiatives

Skills

Team leadership

Code reviews

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes (AKS)

Terraform

Azure

Job description

We are seeking a highly technical and hands-on Lead Software Engineer to drive the design, development, modernization, and operational excellence of large-scale cloud-native platforms. This role will provide technical leadership across application architecture, microservices, cloud infrastructure, integrations, DevOps, observability, resiliency, and security.

The ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers while actively contributing to architecture decisions, code development, cloud deployments, production support, and platform modernization initiatives.

Detailed Job Description:

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Define and evolve enterprise-scale cloud and application architectures.
• Establish architecture standards, design patterns, security controls, and development best practices.
• Drive high-availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency strategies.
• Review solution designs and perform architecture governance.

Full Stack Application Development

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable web applications.
• Build modern responsive front-end applications.
• Develop RESTful and event-driven APIs.
• Ensure performance optimization, caching, security, and application reliability.
• Design and implement cloud-native solutions in Azure.
• Lead containerization initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
• Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Manage cloud networking, traffic routing, CDN integration, API gateways, and security controls.
• Design and develop distributed microservices.
• Implement reactive programming patterns.

Build resilient services using:

• Spring Boot

Nice to have skills (Top 2 only)

• 2.Lead and mentor software engineers.
• 3. Conduct code reviews and design reviews.
• 4. Establish engineering standards and quality metrics.
• 5. Collaborate with product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders.

Minimum years of experience*: 8-10 years