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Lead Software Development Engineer

Job Profile Summary

The Lead Software Development Engineer provides technical and consultative support on highly complex technology initiatives. This role, designs, develops, supports cloud-native applications, APIs, event-driven systems, and enterprise integration platforms. The individual serves as a senior technical contributor, helping evaluate and implement technology solutions that are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, develops, and supports enterprise applications and platform services.
• Evaluates architectural approaches and recommends appropriate technologies based on business requirements, cost, scalability, reliability, and operational supportability.
• Develops cloud-native solutions using APIs, event-driven patterns, and distributed systems principles.
• Provides technical leadership and guidance during design reviews and implementation activities.
• Troubleshoots complex production issues and drives root cause analysis and remediation.
• Maintains knowledge of industry trends, cloud technologies, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Mentors less experienced engineers and serve as technical lead, leading by example on projects.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, or cloud engineering experience.
• Experience developing enterprise applications using Java and/or Python.
• Experience designing and supporting distributed systems and APIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native architecture and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong understanding of API, messaging, event-driven, and microservices architectures.
• Experience evaluating technology tradeoffs and selecting appropriate solutions for business and technical requirements.
• Experience with Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Apigee, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Python, Java, SQL
• GCP
• Pub/Sub
• Spring Boot, REST APIs
• Dataflow, BigQuery
• CI/CD and Automation
• Observability and Monitoring

Key differentiator: Demonstrated ability to evaluate and choose between cloud services, APIs, messaging platforms, event-driven solutions, and data processing technologies based on scalability, reliability, operational supportability, security, and cost considerations.

Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)

Workplace Type:

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds:  in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Compensation Range:

The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and education.  Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan.  In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO). 

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Note to Agency Recruiters:  Huntington will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.  All unsolicited resumes sent to any Huntington colleagues, directly or indirectly, will be considered Huntington property. Recruiting agencies must have a valid, written and fully executed Master Service Agreement and Statement of Work for consideration.