Senior Tech Lead: Java/Spring & React Architect

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

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