Location: Pittsburgh, PA; Hybrid

Job Classification: Exempt

Job Status: Full time

Reports to: Manager, Software Development

Purpose

The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for guiding technical strategy and execution across software development projects. This role focuses on leading technical direction, mentoring engineers, and applying advanced software engineering principles to deliver efficient, scalable, and secure solutions to Panther's Applications.

Responsibilities

• Executes development of complex software systems with a focus on scalability, performance, and security.
• Develops high-quality, maintainable code and conducts thorough code reviews to uphold best practices and standards.
• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to define technical requirements and align on project delivery, estimations and timelines.
• Leads the design and delivery of software solutions that integrate AI assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, test generation, documentation assistants) across the SDLC.
• Establish standards and guardrails for responsible use of AI in software development, including security, privacy, IP protection, and compliance considerations.
• Identifies opportunities where AI can improve developer productivity, code quality, testing coverage, observability, and operational efficiency.
• Mentors and coaches' other software engineers.
• Embraces development methodologies like Agile, tools like AI, and frameworks like Scrum/Waterfall.
• Conducts effective code reviews of others.
• Diagnoses and resolves technical issues to ensure system stability and reliability.
• Stays informed on emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and competitive advantage.
• Contributes to strategic planning and technical decision-making for software initiatives.
• Maintains comprehensive documentation for software solutions and architecture.
• Establishes and enforces best practices for architecture and frameworks aligned with product strategy.
• Serves as the dedicated technical owner for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) data streaming infrastructure, including event routing, message delivery guarantees, and end-to-end pipeline integrity across integrated systems.
• Identifies, investigates, and remediates race conditions and concurrency defects in distributed data streaming environments, including event ordering anomalies, duplicate message processing, and timing-dependent state conflicts across system boundaries.
• Partners with migration and cutover teams to audit data streaming risk, produce pre-cutover race condition assessments, and validate streaming stability gates prior to each wave release.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of software development experience, including significant experience designing and building complex systems.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages ( C#,SQL, React, WinForms) and frameworks (Azure, ADO, Git, Microservices, Event Hubs, Entity Framework, REST APIs).
• Proficiency in AI tools used for assisted AI code development (GitHub Copilot & Claude Code)
• Relational database (RDBMS) technology such as: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL or PostgreSQL with a solid understanding of SQL
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (Azure DevOps) and microservices architecture.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum framework and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with proven success in cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to investigate and resolve non-routine technical challenges.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; comfortable working alone, and embraces working with a team.
• Demonstrated experience with ESB platforms and distributed messaging systems (e.g., Azure Service Bus/EventHubs, or equivalent), including configuration of message retry policies, dead-letter queues, and idempotent consumer patterns.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving concurrency issues in distributed or event-driven systems, with working knowledge of synchronization primitives, thread-safety patterns, and tooling for concurrency analysis and trace-based debugging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of three (3) years of mobile application development.
• Experience with Capacitor or other cross-platform mobile frameworks (e.g., React Native, Flutter, or .NET MAUI).
• A passion for human-centered design in application UI/UX.

Work Environment

This job works in a professional home office and office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and fax machines.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, see, talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms and must be able to view a computer screen for extended periods of time, working with various forms of data. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function of the job.

Benefits:

Hybrid, remote and flexible on-site work schedules are available, based on the position. PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy also affords an excellent benefit package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, 401K with employer matching, employer-paid life insurance and short/long term disability coverage, and an Employee Assistance Program! Generous paid time off is also available to all full-time employees, as well as limited paid time off for part-time employees. Of course we offer paid holidays too!