Senior Full-Stack Technical Lead

Redbud Partners LLC; Oklahoma; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Redbud Partners LLC seeks an experienced Senior Full-Stack Technical Lead to spearhead analysis, requirements extraction, and a clean-room rebuild of a complex authenticated web application.

The role blends hands-on engineering with architecture leadership, mentoring, security/compliance, and end-to-end delivery across the software lifecycle.

You will define system architecture, drive best practices, and ensure operational excellence while coordinating with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or comparable experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership, lead engineer, staff engineer, principal engineer, or solutions architect role.
• Extensive experience building and deploying modern full-stack web applications.
• Strong understanding of web application architecture and RESTful API design.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM-based services into production systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of software security principles and secure development practices.
• Proven experience leading complex technical projects from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical strategy for rebuilding a complex authenticated web application.
• Define architecture, system boundaries, integration patterns, and tech standards.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practices and governance.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to translate business workflows into requirements.
• Ensure SSDLC, security, compliance, and operational excellence across lifecycle.
• Design scalable back-end services and secure front-end applications.
• Oversee AI agent integration, governance, and auditing.

Skills

React

Next.js

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Node.js

Python

API design

Authentication/Authorization

Playwright

Automated testing

Workflow automation

SQL Server

MySQL

NoSQL

Data modeling

Agent orchestration

RAG

AI governance

Docker

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

IAM

OAuth2/OpenID

Secrets management

Audit logging

Threat modeling

Secure architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Full-Stack Technical Lead to spearhead the authorized analysis, requirements extraction, and clean-room rebuild of a complex authenticated web application.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable performing hands-on engineering, defining system architecture, mentoring developers, engaging with stakeholders, and ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence throughout the software lifecycle.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty listed below satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions/Job Duties:

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Lead the end-to-end technical strategy for rebuilding an existing authenticated web application.
• Define application architecture, system boundaries, integration patterns, and technology standards.
• Translate observed business workflows into functional and technical requirements.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, development workflows, and architecture governance.
• Provide technical mentorship to software engineers and automation developers.
• Conduct architecture reviews and oversee technical decision-making.
• Analyze authorized user workflows, application behaviors, and business processes.
• Capture workflow documentation, application states, user journeys, and data flows.
• Develop tooling to support requirements gathering and process validation.
• Maintain clear auditability of workflow observations and documentation.

Full-Stack Application Development

• Architect and develop modern web applications and APIs.
• Design scalable backend services and secure integration layers.
• Build responsive front-end applications with excellent user experience.
• Design and manage relational and non-relational data models.
• Implement robust authentication, authorization, and access-control mechanisms.
• Ensure maintainability, scalability, and performance across the application stack.

AI Agent Integration

• Design and implement bounded AI agents within clearly defined operational constraints.
• Implement human-in-the-loop approval workflows for critical actions.
• Integrate large language models and AI services into business workflows.
• Build agent orchestration, monitoring, and governance capabilities.
• Ensure transparent audit logging of AI-generated outputs and decisions.
• Establish safeguards to prevent unauthorized actions or privilege escalation.

Security & Compliance

• Apply secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices.
• Implement least-privilege access controls across all systems.
• Design secure credential management and secrets-handling processes.
• Ensure separation between development, testing, scanning, staging, and production environments.
• Develop audit logging, traceability, and monitoring capabilities.
• Participate in security reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with compliance, security, and governance stakeholders.
• Design and manage cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Create CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing and deployment.
• Establish observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Optimize application reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Quality Engineering

• Define application testing strategies and quality standards.
• Develop automated unit, integration, end-to-end, and regression test suites.
• Build Playwright-based testing frameworks.
• Drive continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensure production readiness through rigorous validation processes.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Hours and work may change in accordance with business needs. Exempt employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require.

Required Technical Skills

Front-End

• React
• Next.js
• TypeScript
• HTML/CSS

Back-End

• Node.js
• Python
• API design and integration
• Authentication and authorization frameworks
• Playwright
• Automated testing frameworks
• Workflow automation

Data & Storage

• SQL Server
• MySQL
• NoSQL databases
• Data modeling and optimization

AI & Automation

• Agent orchestration frameworks
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• AI governance and observability

AWS

• Docker
• Terraform
• Infrastructure as Code

Security

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• OAuth2 / OpenID Connect
• Secrets management
• Audit logging
• Threat modeling
• Secure software architecture

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or comparable experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership, lead engineer, staff engineer, principal engineer, or solutions architect role.
• Extensive experience building and deploying modern full-stack web applications.
• Strong understanding of web application architecture and RESTful API design.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM-based services into production systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of software security principles and secure development practices.
• Proven experience leading complex technical projects from concept to production.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience rebuilding or modernizing legacy enterprise applications.
• Experience working with highly regulated or security-sensitive environments.
• AWS certifications.
• Solutions Architect certifications.
• Experience with enterprise workflow automation platforms.
• Experience creating engineering governance frameworks.
• Experience leading distributed engineering teams.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.