Technical Lead – Java/Spring & React (Hybrid)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Career tracks and job levels

Leadership development/training

Financial counseling

Tuition assistance

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Lincoln Financial Group is seeking a hands-on tech lead to guide a small team building customer-facing web applications on a Java/Spring/React stack. You will own the technical direction, review code, and mentor engineers, shaping design and quality.

You'll collaborate with product, design, compliance, and security, and help grow engineers while maintaining security and performance in a hybrid work environment with a focus on scalable software in a regulated industry.

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 — you've designed and operated production services, not just contributed to them.
• Working experience with AWS, containerized deployment, and cloud-native application design.
• Practical 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.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor less experienced engineers and to communicate clearly with non-engineering partners.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Java

Spring framework

Backend architecture

AI tooling

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

Containerization

GraphQL

Job description

Lincoln Financial Group is seeking a hands-on tech lead to guide a small team building customer-facing web applications on a Java/Spring/React stack. You will own the technical direction, review code, and mentor engineers, shaping design and quality.

You'll collaborate with product, design, compliance, and security, and help grow engineers while maintaining security and performance in a hybrid work environment with a focus on scalable software in a regulated industry.