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We’re looking for a Lead Platform Developer to own the architecture, scalability, and reliability of our core platform. You’ll lead a small team of engineers, define platform standards and patterns, and build highly available services and tooling that accelerate product teams. This role is part hands-on development, part technical leadership, and part cross-functional influence.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the platform architecture: Design and evolve cloud-native, multi-tenant, secure platform components (APIs, services, eventing, data pipelines, shared libraries).
• Lead the team: Mentor engineers, lead code/design reviews, improve engineering practices, and drive continuous improvement.
• Build platform capabilities: Authentication/authorization, service discovery, configuration, observability, feature flags, rollout/rollback tooling, and developer experience (DX) pipelines.
• Reliability at scale: Implement SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and chaos/resiliency testing; drive performance benchmarking and capacity planning.
• Security by design: Champion secure coding, secrets management, dependency hygiene, and compliance needs (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI—depending on domain).
• Cloud & infra automation: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, environment strategy, container orchestration, ephemeral environments.
• Data platform collaboration: Partner with data teams on streaming (e.g., Kafka), warehousing, schema governance, and data contracts.
• Technical strategy: Evaluate build vs. buy, set platform roadmaps, deprecate legacy systems, and guide modernization.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product engineering, SRE, security, QA, and architecture to deliver platform capabilities that product teams love.
• Incident leadership: Lead severity incidents, postmortems, and drive preventive improvements.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of software engineering experience, with 2–4+ years in platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems roles referred 
• Expert in at least one backend language (e.g., C#/.NET, Java/Kotlin, Go, Node.js, Python).
• Strong with cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/GitLab CI/Jenkins).
• Hands-on with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, or ARM/Bicep) and environment management.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: idempotency, backpressure, eventual consistency, retries/circuit breakers, caching.
• Proven experience designing observability (logging, metrics, tracing) with tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Experience leading projects, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams.
• Clear, concise communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka/PubSub, or service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
• API design expertise (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), versioning, and contract testing (PACT).
• Security depth: OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, policy-as-code (OPA), secrets management (Vault/SM/Key Vault).
• Data platform familiarity: CDC, streaming ETL, lakehouse/warehouse patterns.
• Reliability practices: SRE, SLOs/error budgets, chaos engineering.
• Regulated environments (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP) and audit-readiness.
• Performance profiling and cost-optimization at scale.

Citizenship or Work Authorization Required:  

• Ability to attain Federal Government Position of Trust.
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Must pass a background investigation.

Required Education, certification & Experience:

• A BS degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science, from an ABET accredited or CAE designated institution fulfills the educational requirement . 

Note: The U.S. Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs located at https://amspub.abet.org/aps/name-search?searchType=institution identifies accredited postsecondary institutions. In Lieu of education requirement listed, candidate must have the required certification or will obtain required certification within 6 months of the start date. Certification requirement(s) for this role is AN IASAE II certification (CASP+CE, CLSSP associate) or CSSLP. 

Preferred Education & Experience: 

• Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that directly relates to the required area of expertise. Compensation for roles at Synergy varies depending on a wide variety of factors including but not limited to the requirements of the role; education and certifications; knowledge, training, skills and abilities; level of experience; geographic location; and alignment with market data, law, and other business and organizational needs. As required by local law, the posted pay range represents the lowest to the highest pay that Synergy believes in good faith it might pay for this particular job, depending on the circumstances. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. 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.