Senior Software Lead & Technical Architect (Onsite)

Universal Logistics Holdings; Northville (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Major medical

Dental

Vision

401K

Paid time off

Job summary

Universal Logistics Holdings in Warren, MI seeks a Team Lead Software Developer to guide technical direction, own delivery, and mentor engineers in a multi-system environment.

You will drive code quality, architect decisions, collaborate with product, design, QA, security, and data science, and ensure production readiness with DevOps teams. This hands-on leadership role offers growth and impact across logistics platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software teams and delivering complex systems.
• Ability to conduct effective code reviews and enforce quality standards.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and serverless patterns.
• Strong collaboration with product, design, QA, security, and data science teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical authority for the team, guiding architecture decisions and coding standards.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure quality, security, and maintainability.
• Actively contribute code on complex, time-constrained tasks.
• Drive coding practices, design patterns, and team standards; champion cloud-native methods.
• Engage with stakeholders to clarify requirements and ensure alignment with business outcomes.
• Define and manage project timelines, milestones, and delivery checkpoints.
• Lead regular stand-ups, assign work, and track progress; ensure accountability.
• Mentor junior engineers and support growth through feedback and formal development paths.
• Coordinate with DevOps to ensure CI/CD, production readiness, logging, and monitoring.
• Promote security, compliance, and accessibility within engineering practices.
• Support innovation, tech spikes, and long-term architectural strategy.
• Maintain team health and culture, promote psychological safety, and conflict resolution.

Skills

Team leadership

Code reviews

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Serverless

Observability

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML awareness

Security best practices

Job description

Universal Logistics Holdings in Warren, MI seeks a Team Lead Software Developer to guide technical direction, own delivery, and mentor engineers in a multi-system environment.

You will drive code quality, architect decisions, collaborate with product, design, QA, security, and data science, and ensure production readiness with DevOps teams. This hands-on leadership role offers growth and impact across logistics platforms.