We are seeking a Lead Platform Software Engineer to join our growing team. This role is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Lead Platform Software Engineer, you will have relevant experience with both front-end and back-end coding languages, software development architecture and design patterns, development frameworks and third- party libraries. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing consumer-facing digital products in collaboration with product and design leaders. This individual must be creative, client focused, team player, organized, and can thrive in a dynamic environment.
Duties & Responsibilities:- Design, develop, and test applications (e.g. API, web apps) in accordance with established standards.
- Collaborate with Product and Design Leaders to lead product delivery teams.
- Set short to medium term technical direction, creating plans to help achieve goals
- Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
- Package and support deployment of releases.
- Foster an environment where different backgrounds, cultures, industry and life experiences are embraced and valued.
- Collaborate on architecture decisions, ensuring that we are adapting and evolving to meet organization's scaling business needs
- Collaborate with other software developers, product managers and software architects to plan, design and deliver applications.
- Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
- Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and within budget.
- Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions.
- Work in an Agile framework to identify and automate solutions that result in enhanced developer experience and increased developer productivity.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation.
- Contribute towards defining and establishing benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures.
- Leverage AI as a tool, not a replacement - Candidates are expected to understand that AI is a power productivity multiplier while maintaining engineering judgment, and ensuring AI generated code meets quality standards
- Full code ownership mandatory - Must understand, explain, and support all AI-assisted code as if written from scratch
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Other duties as assigned.
Education & Experience: - 5+ years of experience in software or solution architecture roles, with a focus on designing and implementing complex, enterprise-level solutions using cloud platform
- Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and architectural frameworks.
- Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery patterns, Cloud foundational patterns, Observability patterns, Developer experience patterns.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Practical AI experience required - Comfortable using tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude for prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
Technical Proficiency and Skills:
- Git Version Control System
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms, preferably GCP
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Great attention to detail and organizational skills
- Experience delivering individual and institutional client facing solutions; Web Portal(s), online payments, and third-party integrations
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology
- Expertise in delivering secure, high performance, fault tolerant, and high availability solutions
Other Requirements:- Infrequent travel (10%)
- Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
