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Lead Software Developer - Remote

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world's top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking a Lead Software Developer to join our People Assurance team. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in software development.

Intertek's People Assurance teams empower your workforce to identify and close operational gaps and mitigate risk by assuring smart actions across your organization. Intertek Alchemy provides frontline worker training solutions for processors, manufacturers, packagers, and distributors of all sizes. Intertek Catalyst inspires and engages workforces with highly creative, custom-branded, asset protection communication programs tailor-made strategic solutions designed to leverage our clients' company brand, values, and objectives to optimize the culture of their people. Intertek Wisetail provides a custom branded training and communication platform built to engage today's workforce with a complete learning management system, giving customers the tools to grow their passionate workforce. Intertek is continually innovating and evolving to reduce risk for consumers, brands and organizations in every sector and industry around the world. We go beyond Testing, Inspection and Certification of products: we are a Total Quality Assurance Provider to industries worldwide. Our Purpose: Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.

What are we looking for?

As a Lead Software Developer on the Platform team, you will serve as a senior technical leader for the core services, APIs, and data layer that our products are built on. You will take ownership of complex, cross-cutting technical work - designing and building scalable TypeScript services, modeling and optimizing the relational data layer, and architecting cloud solutions on AWS. This role sets technical direction for the platform, raises the engineering bar through code review and mentorship, and partners closely with architecture, product, and DevOps to deliver reliable, performant, and secure software at scale.

Shift/Schedule:  8-5 Mountain Time

Salary & Benefits Information

In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more. 

What you'll do:

• Provide technical leadership by overseeing platform development, setting engineering standards, driving architectural decisions, and ensuring high-quality, secure, and maintainable code through code reviews and best practices.
• Lead platform engineering by designing, developing, and maintaining scalable platform services, shared libraries, and APIs using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Mentor and grow engineering talent by guiding developers, resolving complex technical challenges, and driving technical debt reduction and refactoring initiatives.
• Build and optimize cloud and data solutions by designing AWS-based services, managing databases, optimizing SQL performance, executing migrations, and ensuring scalable data architecture.
• Ensure platform reliability and security by improving observability, performance, scalability, incident response, authentication, authorization, and data protection across the platform.
• Define API and deployment standards by establishing REST API contracts, versioning strategies, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment best practices in partnership with DevOps.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, scope projects, estimate work, translate business needs into technical solutions, and ensure successful product delivery.
• Champion software quality by partnering with QA, documenting technical decisions and architecture, supporting production operations, and continuously improving platform stability.
• Contribute to Agile delivery by actively participating in Scrum ceremonies, identifying risks, demonstrating completed features, and communicating customer value during Sprint Reviews.
• Promote continuous learning and business awareness by staying current with emerging technologies, understanding the competitive landscape, completing required training, and supporting additional organizational needs as required.

Minimum Requirements & Qualifications:

• Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership and ownership of complex systems.
• Technical Expertise: Expert in TypeScript, Node.js, REST APIs, AWS cloud services, relational databases (MySQL preferred), SQL optimization, software architecture, and modern development best practices.
• Development & DevOps: Experience with front-end technologies, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git/GitHub, and designing scalable, secure, and maintainable applications.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Proven ability to mentor engineers, solve complex technical problems, communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and thrive in Agile, cross-functional environments.
• Professional Skills: Detail-oriented, customer-focused, adaptable to changing priorities, committed to quality and safety, with strong organizational, communication, and time management skills, and willingness to travel as needed.

Intertek: Total Quality. Assured.

Intertek is a world leader in the Quality Assurance market, with a proven, high-quality business model and a global network of customer-focused operations and highly engaged subject matter experts. With passion, pace, and precision we work to exceed our customers' expectations, while engaging with our employees to be 10X in their performance and professional growth.

Intertek is a drug-free workplace. As a condition of employment, certain positions may be required to pass a pre-employment drug test based on the type of work that will be performed.

We Value Diversity

Intertek's network of phenomenal people are our greatest assets, and the diversity they bring fuels our success. Intertek is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that values inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

For individuals with disabilities who would like to request accommodation, or who need assistance applying, please email intertekhrusa@intertek.com or call 1-877-694-8543 (option #5) to speak with a member of the HR Department.

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Intertek is a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide. Our network of more than 1,000 laboratories and offices in more than 100 countries, delivers innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification (ATIC) solutions for our customers' operations and supply chains. Working at Intertek means joining a global network of state-of-the-art facilities and passionate people who deliver superior customer service with a purpose of bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life. Intertek's People Assurance team provides range of workforce-focused solutions that empower our clients' employees to identify and close operational gaps and mitigate risk by assuring smart actions across organizations. Our services give clients the tools they need to build, maintain, and protect their brands, supporting them in the continuous evolution of their workforce to maximize employee potential.