Lead Engineer

We are seeking an exceptional Lead Engineer for our client to drive technical excellence across their front-end, back-end, and QA teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and high-quality software delivery. Reporting directly to the VP of Product and Technology, you will play a critical role in shaping strategic company initiatives, balancing hands-on coding expertise with strong leadership. You thrive in enterprise-scale AWS environments, architecting and implementing solutions that are robust, scalable, and efficient. Beyond technical mastery, you bring outstanding communication and organizational skills, ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders. This is a rare opportunity for a high-impact leader who not only writes amazingly clean code but also inspires teams to innovate and execute at the highest level. If you’re ready to take ownership of transformative projects and drive technical strategy, we want to hear from you.
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor front-end, back-end, and QA teams, fostering a high-performance engineering culture that delivers quality at speed.
• Architect, design, and implement clean, scalable, and maintainable code, setting the technical bar for the team while remaining hands-on.
• Drive strategic initiatives by collaborating closely with the VP of Product and Technology, ensuring alignment between engineering execution and business objectives.
• Own and optimize enterprise-grade AWS infrastructure, leveraging best practices for security, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Enhance operational efficiency by defining and refining agile development processes, CI/CD pipelines, and QA automation strategies.
• Drive a culture of Test Driven Development (TDD) with a proven track record for use and implementation of TDD processes and tooling.
• Communicate complex technical concepts with clarity, ensuring stakeholders—from executives to engineers—are aligned and empowered to make informed decisions.
• Operate with urgency and precision, balancing speed and attention to detail in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
• Review and provide feedback on code written by other engineers to ensure high-quality standards.
• Oversee the architectural design and implementation of Enterprise SaaS products.
• Lead the design and development of scalable, maintainable, and modular front-end architectures for enterprise SaaS applications.
• Collaborate with UX designers to ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience while maintaining front-end performance and responsiveness.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Lead Engineer or similar role.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and Terraform.
• Extensive full-stack expertise, with proficiency in both front-end (VueJS, ReactJS, TypeScript) and back-end (NodeJS, NestJS, Rust, Python) frameworks, demonstrating the ability to architect, develop, and optimize high quality end-to-end solutions.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices and tools (deployment pipelines, Jira, GitHub, Jenkins).
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Experience with architectural design and implementation either from the ground up, or via significant modernization/upgrade.
• Knowledge of application security best practices is a must.
• Proven track record in optimizing front-end performance and ensuring scalability in high-traffic applications.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to solve complex front-end challenges in a SaaS environment.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams with product and design stakeholders.
• Experience with vulnerability management best practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with trunk-based development is beneficial.