Lead Software Engineer

Eliassen Group; Woodbridge Township (NJ); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and lead a critical enterprise application in the insurance domain. The role requires leadership, application ownership, and hands-on development across middleware, web services, and SQL Server.

You 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 Woodbridge Township, NJ and interviews are

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Expert-level SQL Server skills, including complex queries, data analysis, performance tuning, and large-scale updates.
• Strong middleware and web services experience with service-layer architecture and integrations.
• Front-end experience with Angular v11+ and TypeScript/JavaScript.

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

SQL Server

Middleware & Web Services

Java/J2EE 8+

Spring MVC

REST

JMS

JBoss

ESB (Mule)

JSON

XML

XSLT

SOAP

Tools

DB2

MS SQL Server

Angular 11+

TypeScript/JavaScript

CSS (Bootstrap, PrimeNG)

AWS (Lambda, S3)

Job description

Description:

On-site 4 days onsite in Woodbridge Township, NJ

Our client seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and lead a critical enterprise application in the insurance domain. 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.
• Front-end experience with Angular v11+, TypeScript/JavaScript, and CSS libraries such as Bootstrap and PrimeNG.
• 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.