Senior Lead Full-Stack Engineer — React/AWS

Socket.dev; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Equity

Job summary

Socket.dev in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack (React/AWS) to own end-to-end delivery of secure, scalable web applications. You will mentor hands-on engineers, review code, and drive architectural decisions that align with business outcomes.

You will collaborate across design, development, testing and ops within an agile team, champion best practices for security and resiliency, and advance AI-assisted tooling to improve quality and velocity.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in front end technology like React/ReactJS, Redux, Angular/AngularJS, ExtJS, JQuery, NodeJS
• Proficiency in technologies like Java, Spring Boot, RDS Postgres or any Relational Database
• Lead and mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance and code reviews to improve delivery quality and team velocity
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code modules for repeatable, scalable, and auditable deployments
• Practical cloud native experience in AWS
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respectLeads evaluation sessions with external vendors, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation

Skills

React/ReactJS

Redux

Angular/AngularJS

ExtJS

JQuery

NodeJS

Java

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL/RDS

AWS

AI-assisted development tools

Responsible AI

Education

Software engineering concepts certification

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Socket.dev in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack (React/AWS) to own end-to-end delivery of secure, scalable web applications. You will mentor hands-on engineers, review code, and drive architectural decisions that align with business outcomes.

You will collaborate across design, development, testing and ops within an agile team, champion best practices for security and resiliency, and advance AI-assisted tooling to improve quality and velocity.