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As a Lead Full-stack Software Engineer , you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in ...

Build end-to-end SaaS features across the full tech stack with a focus on the backend * Provide thoughtful code reviews and technical mentorship to other engineers * Co-lead retrospectives with ...

As a Lead Full-stack Software Engineer , you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in ...

As a Lead Full-stack Software Engineer , you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in ...

As a Lead Full-stack Software Engineer , you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in ...

As a Lead Full-stack Software Engineer , you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in ...

Full-Stack Engineer Nexusflow is currently adding Full-Stack Engineers to our team. Our full-stack engineers are responsible for packaging up our technology in models and last-mile quality toolings ...

We are looking for a skilled Lead Full-Stack Engineer (Tech Lead) to join our team. This role is both hands-on and leadership-oriented, requiring the ability to lead technical conversations ...

Full Stack Engineer: We are in search of a dynamic Full-Stack Engineer to work as part of our product and backend engineering initiatives within Dot Earth, a thriving incubator. .Erth is presently ...

We are looking for a skilled Lead Full-Stack Engineer (Tech Lead) to join our team. This role is both hands-on and leadership-oriented, requiring the ability to lead technical conversations ...

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How much do lead full stack engineer jobs pay per year?

As of May 30, 2026, the average yearly pay for lead full stack engineer in California is $133,006.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $109,500.00 and $155,900.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Lead Full Stack Engineer vs Software Architect?

AspectLead Full Stack EngineerSoftware Architect
CredentialsBachelor's in CS or related field, experience in full stack developmentBachelor's or Master's in CS, software design certifications often preferred
Work EnvironmentHands-on coding, team leadership, project managementDesigning system architecture, high-level technical planning
Industry UsageCommon in tech companies, startups, and product teamsUsed in large enterprises, consulting firms, and complex system projects
Search & Comparison IntentFocus on coding, team leadership, project deliveryFocus on system design, technical standards, long-term architecture

The Lead Full Stack Engineer is primarily involved in coding, leading development teams, and managing projects. In contrast, a Software Architect focuses on designing overall system architecture and technical standards. While both roles require strong technical skills, the Lead Full Stack Engineer is more hands-on, whereas the Software Architect is more strategic and design-oriented.

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Infographic showing various Lead Full Stack Engineer job openings in California as of May 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, and 99% Full Time. Highlights an 74% Physical, 5% Hybrid, and 21% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $133,006 per year, or $63.9 per hour.
Lead Full Stack Engineer

Lead Full Stack Engineer

Deloitte

San Diego, CA • On-site

Other

Posted 8 days ago


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8.1

Company rating: 8.1 out of 10

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59th of 138 rated financial services


Job description

Role Overview: As a Lead Full-stack Software Engineer, you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in delivering solutions that delight customers and users, while also driving tangible value for Deloitte's business investments. You will leverage your extensive engineering craftmanship across multiple programming languages and modern frameworks, consistently demonstrating your strong track record in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. The ideal candidate will be a dependable team player, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy advanced software solutions.

Recruiting for this role ends on May 27, 2026

Key Responsibilities:

  • Outcome-Driven Accountability: Embrace and drive a culture of accountability for customer and business outcomes. Develop engineering solutions that solve complex problems with valuable outcomes, ensuring high-quality, lean designs and implementations.
  • Technical Leadership and Advocacy: Serve as the technical advocate for products, ensuring code integrity, feasibility, and alignment with business and customer goals. Lead requirement analysis, component design, development, unit testing, integrations, and support.
  • Engineering Craftsmanship: Maintain accountability for the integrity of code design, implementation, quality, data, and ongoing maintenance and operations. Be hands-on, self-driven, and continuously learn new approaches, languages, and frameworks. Create technical specifications, and write high-quality, supportable, scalable code ensuring all quality KPIs are met or exceeded. Demonstrate collaborative skills to work effectively with diverse teams.
  • Customer-Centric Engineering: Develop lean engineering solutions through rapid, inexpensive experimentation to solve customer needs. Engage with customers and product teams before, during, and after delivery to ensure the right solution is delivered at the right time.
  • Incremental and Iterative Delivery: Adopt a mindset that favors action and evidence over extensive planning. Utilize a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty, delivering lean, supportable, and maintainable solutions.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration and Integration: Work collaboratively with empowered, cross-functional teams including product management, experience, and delivery. Integrate diverse perspectives to make well-informed decisions that balance feasibility, viability, usability, and value. Foster a collaborative environment that enhances team synergy and innovation.
  • Advanced Technical Proficiency: Possess deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and principles, including Agile methodologies and DevSecOps to deliver daily product deployments using full automation from code check-in to production with all quality checks through SDLC lifecycle. Strive to be a role model, leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery. Demonstrate understanding of the full lifecycle product development, focusing on continuous improvement, and learning.
  • Domain Expertise: Quickly acquire domain-specific knowledge relevant to the business or product. Translate business/user needs, architectures, and UX/UI designs into technical specifications and code. Be a valuable, flexible, and dedicated team member, supportive of teammates, and focused on quality and tech debt payoff.
  • Effective Communication and Influence: Exhibit exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and compellingly. Inspire and influence teammates and product teams through well-structured arguments and trade-offs supported by evidence. Create coherent narratives that align technical solutions with business objectives.
  • Engagement and Collaborative Co-Creation: Engage and collaborate with product engineering teams at all organizational levels, including customers as needed. Build and maintain constructive relationships, fostering a culture of co-creation and shared momentum towards achieving product goals. Align diverse perspectives and drive consensus to create feasible solutions.

The Team: US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte's success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world's largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.

The successful candidate will possess:

  • Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.

Required Qualifications:

  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. Experience is the most relevant factor.
  • 5 years of experience with multiple programming languages such as Angular, React, NodeJS, Python, Streamlit, C#, .NET Core, Golang, SQL/NoSQL, as well as unit testing frameworks.
  • 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud-native engineering, using FaaS, PaaS, and micro-services on cloud hyperscalers such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • 1+ years of experience with AI/ML and GenAI.
  • Prior software engineering experience with the understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/entity relationship/data flow diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, and code instrumentations.
  • Prior experience using methodologies & tools such as XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, etc. to deliver high-quality products rapidly.

Other:

  • Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and products you build.
  • Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.


The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $105,600 to $210,000.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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Role Overview: As a Lead Full-stack Software Engineer, you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in delivering solutions that delight customers and users, while also driving tangible value for Deloitte's business investments. You will leverage your extensive engineering craftmanship across multiple programming languages and modern frameworks, consistently demonstrating your strong track record in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. The ideal candidate will be a dependable team player, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy advanced software solutions.

Recruiting for this role ends on May 27, 2026

Key Responsibilities:

  • Outcome-Driven Accountability: Embrace and drive a culture of accountability for customer and business outcomes. Develop engineering solutions that solve complex problems with valuable outcomes, ensuring high-quality, lean designs and implementations.
  • Technical Leadership and Advocacy: Serve as the technical advocate for products, ensuring code integrity, feasibility, and alignment with business and customer goals. Lead requirement analysis, component design, development, unit testing, integrations, and support.
  • Engineering Craftsmanship: Maintain accountability for the integrity of code design, implementation, quality, data, and ongoing maintenance and operations. Be hands-on, self-driven, and continuously learn new approaches, languages, and frameworks. Create technical specifications, and write high-quality, supportable, scalable code ensuring all quality KPIs are met or exceeded. Demonstrate collaborative skills to work effectively with diverse teams.
  • Customer-Centric Engineering: Develop lean engineering solutions through rapid, inexpensive experimentation to solve customer needs. Engage with customers and product teams before, during, and after delivery to ensure the right solution is delivered at the right time.
  • Incremental and Iterative Delivery: Adopt a mindset that favors action and evidence over extensive planning. Utilize a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty, delivering lean, supportable, and maintainable solutions.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration and Integration: Work collaboratively with empowered, cross-functional teams including product management, experience, and delivery. Integrate diverse perspectives to make well-informed decisions that balance feasibility, viability, usability, and value. Foster a collaborative environment that enhances team synergy and innovation.
  • Advanced Technical Proficiency: Possess deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and principles, including Agile methodologies and DevSecOps to deliver daily product deployments using full automation from code check-in to production with all quality checks through SDLC lifecycle. Strive to be a role model, leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery. Demonstrate understanding of the full lifecycle product development, focusing on continuous improvement, and learning.
  • Domain Expertise: Quickly acquire domain-specific knowledge relevant to the business or product. Translate business/user needs, architectures, and UX/UI designs into technical specifications and code. Be a valuable, flexible, and dedicated team member, supportive of teammates, and focused on quality and tech debt payoff.
  • Effective Communication and Influence: Exhibit exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and compellingly. Inspire and influence teammates and product teams through well-structured arguments and trade-offs supported by evidence. Create coherent narratives that align technical solutions with business objectives.
  • Engagement and Collaborative Co-Creation: Engage and collaborate with product engineering teams at all organizational levels, including customers as needed. Build and maintain constructive relationships, fostering a culture of co-creation and shared momentum towards achieving product goals. Align diverse perspectives and drive consensus to create feasible solutions.

The Team: US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte's success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world's largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.

The successful candidate will possess:

  • Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.

Required Qualifications:

  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. Experience is the most relevant factor.
  • 5 years of experience with multiple programming languages such as Angular, React, NodeJS, Python, Streamlit, C#, .NET Core, Golang, SQL/NoSQL, as well as unit testing frameworks.
  • 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud-native engineering, using FaaS, PaaS, and micro-services on cloud hyperscalers such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • 1+ years of experience with AI/ML and GenAI.
  • Prior software engineering experience with the understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/entity relationship/data flow diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, and code instrumentations.
  • Prior experience using methodologies & tools such as XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, etc. to deliver high-quality products rapidly.

Other:

  • Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and products you build.
  • Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.


The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been a...


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