Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Lincoln Financial; Radnor (Delaware County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO/parental leave

Competitive 401K and employee benefits

Free financial counseling, health andE

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Lincoln Financial is seeking a technical leader to guide a team building customer-facing web applications on a modern Java/Spring and React stack. You will own architectural direction, review code, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with product, design, compliance, and security to deliver secure, scalable software.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership rather than people management, with a hybrid work model (3 days/week in the Lincoln office) and a focus on AI-assisted

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time as the technical lead or most senior engineer on a team.
• Deep backend expertise in Java and Spring — designed and operated production services.
• Hands-on proficiency in modern frontend development with JavaScript and React.
• Experience with AWS, containerized deployment, and cloud-native application design; ability to read AI-generated code critically.

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction for a portfolio of customer-facing applications: architecture, design decisions, technical tradeoffs, and sequencing of work.
• Lead a team of mid-level and junior engineers day to day—breaking down ambiguous work and unblocking people.
• Grow engineers through code review, design docs, pair programming, and setting expectations for questions.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

React

JavaScript

AWS

AI tooling - Claude Code

AI tooling - GitHub Copilot

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Tools

GraphQL

Job description

Alternate Locations

Radnor, PA (Pennsylvania); Charlotte, NC (North Carolina); Fort Wayne, IN (Indiana); Greensboro, NC (North Carolina)

Work Arrangement

Hybrid : Employee will work 3 days a week in a Lincoln office

Relocation assistance

is not available for this opportunity.

Requisition #

76531

The Role at a Glance

We build the customer-facing web applications our policyholders use to manage their coverage — the digital front door to their relationship with us. You'll lead a small team of mid-level and junior engineers building and evolving those applications on a modern Java/Spring and React stack.

This is a technical leadership role, not a people management one. You won't run 1:1s or own performance ratings, but you will own the technical direction of your team's work, and your voice carries real weight in how we evaluate, hire, and grow engineers. The engineers on this team are early enough in their careers that your example sets the standard — how you review code, how you write things down, and how you respond when someone asks a basic question will shape this team more than any process we could put in place.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own technical direction for a portfolio of customer-facing applications: architecture, design decisions, technical tradeoffs, and the sequencing of work that keeps the codebase healthy while features ship.
• Lead a team of mid-level and junior engineers day to day — breaking down ambiguous work into tractable pieces, unblocking people, and making sure the hardest problem isn't always landing on the same person's plate.
• Grow the engineers around you. Code review that teaches rather than just gates. Design docs the team actually reads. Pairing on the problems that don't fit in a ticket. Setting the expectation that questions are cheap and silent confusion is expensive.
• Set the team's standards for AI-assisted development: reusable skills and workflows that make everyone faster, expectations for how generated code gets reviewed and tested before it ships, and clear judgment about which work shouldn't be delegated to a tool at all. Your team will lean on these tools heavily; you're the one making sure that's a strength rather than a source of quiet technical debt.
• Partner with product, design, compliance, and security. Translate technical constraints into terms partners can act on, and translate their constraints back into engineering decisions.
• Represent engineering in planning and prioritization: push back on scope when it's warranted, and be specific about what a tradeoff costs.
• Participate in hiring — technical interviews, debriefs, and calibration. All of our engineers do; you'll help set the bar.
• Contribute meaningfully to the team's environment. Morale here is a shared asset, and the tech lead is closest to it.

The stack

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs with some GraphQL
• Frontend: JavaScript, React
• Cloud: AWS, with containerized workloads on Fargate
• Data: Amazon RDS today, with the expectation that you can reason across relational and non-relational stores and pick the right one
• Delivery: Infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability
• AI tooling: Claude Code and GitHub Copilot, available to the whole team

What We’re Looking For

Must Haves:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time as the technical lead or most senior engineer on a team.
• Deep backend expertise in Java and Spring — you've designed and operated production services, not just contributed to them.
• Solid, hands‑on proficiency in modern frontend development with JavaScript and React. You don't need to be the strongest frontend engineer in the room, but you should be able to review the work, spot the problems, and build the feature yourself when it comes to that.
• Working experience with AWS, containerized deployment, and cloud-native application designPractical fluency with AI development tools — and, more importantly, the ability to be the human in the loop. You can read AI-generated code critically, catch the plausible-looking mistake, and explain what's wrong with it. You know when a generated solution is a shortcut worth taking and when it's a liability that will surface in production six months from now. On a team of mid-level and junior engineers, you're the one whose review has to catch what the tool got wrong. (To be clear about scope: this role uses and extends AI tooling. It does not involve building models or LLMs.)
• Demonstrated ability to mentor less experienced engineers and to communicate clearly with non-engineering partners.

Nice to have

• Experience in insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry. Domain knowledge is learnable, and we'll teach it — but comfort working within compliance and security requirements is a real advantage.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG / ADA) in customer-facing applications.
• Experience with GraphQL schema design.
• Exposure to secure SDLC practices and handling of sensitive customer data.

Application Deadline

Applications will be accepted through September 30, 2026, and the posting may be taken down early due to applicant volume.

What’s it like to work here?

At Lincoln Financial, we love what we do. We make meaningful contributions each and every day to empower our customers to take charge of their lives. Working alongside dedicated and talented colleagues, we build fulfilling careers and stronger communities through a company that values our unique perspectives, insights and contributions and invests in programs that empower each of us to take charge of our own future.

What’s in it for you:

• Clearly defined career tracks and job levels, along with associated behaviors for each of Lincoln's core values and leadership attributes
• Leadership development and virtual training opportunities
• PTO/parental leave
• Competitive 401K and employee benefits
• Free financial counseling, health coaching and employee assistance program
• Tuition assistance program
• Work arrangements that work for you
• Effective productivity/technology tools and training

The pay range for this position is $120,375 - $192,600 with anticipated pay for new hires between the minimum and midpoint of the range and could vary above and below the listed range as permitted by applicable law. Pay is based on non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, education, location, licensure requirements, proficiency and qualifications required for the role. The base pay is just one component of Lincoln’s total rewards package for employees. In addition, the role may be eligible for the Annual Incentive Program, which is discretionary and based on the performance of the company, business unit and individual. Other rewards may include long-term incentives, sales incentives and Lincoln’s standard benefits package.

About The Company

Lincoln Financial (NYSE: LNC) helps people to confidently plan for their version of a successful future. We focus on identifying a clear path to financial security, with products including annuities, life insurance, group protection, and retirement plan services.

With our 120-year track record of expertise and integrity, millions of customers trust our solutions and service to help put their goals in reach.

Lincoln Financial Distributors, a broker-dealer, is the wholesale distribution organization of Lincoln Financial. Lincoln Financial is the marketing name for Lincoln Financial Corporation and its affiliates including The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York, Syracuse, NY. Lincoln Financial affiliates, their distributors, and their respective employees, representatives and/or insurance agents do not provide tax, accounting or legal advice.

Lincoln is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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Additional Information

This position may be subject to Lincoln’s Political Contribution Policy. An offer of employment may be contingent upon disclosing to Lincoln the details of certain political contributions. Lincoln may decline to extend an offer or terminate employment for this role if it determines political contributions made could have an adverse impact on Lincoln’s current or future business interests, misrepresentations were made, or for failure to fully disclose applicable political contributions and or fundraising activities.

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