Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Location-Type: Irving, TX- Hybrid 3 days onsite Start Date Is: June 22 Duration: 6 month contract to hire Compensation Range: $65-73/hr W2 Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401K Must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship . Job Description: We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive development initiatives across a customer-facing financial wellness platform while serving as a hands-on technical leader across enterprise engineering initiatives.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Lead development initiatives across a customer-facing platform
- Build and support scalable applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, and AWS
- Own technical delivery from requirements gathering through deployment and production support
- Serve as the technical lead across multiple engineering initiatives and stakeholders
- Collaborate closely with Product, UX, Engineering Managers, and cross-functional teams
- Drive architecture and design discussions involving APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven workflows
- Break down complex technical and delivery challenges into actionable solutions
- Mentor engineers and guide collaborative technical problem-solving efforts
- Participate in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and engineering best practices discussions
- Support production operations, observability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement efforts
- Improve engineering quality, delivery execution, and overall team effectiveness
- Balance approximately 80% hands-on engineering work with 20% leadership responsibilities
Minimum Requirements:
- 10 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong hands-on frontend engineering experience with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript
- Strong backend engineering experience with Node.js
- Experience building APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures/CDC workflows
- Experience working within AWS cloud environments
- Experience owning technical delivery from requirements through production support
- Strong enterprise product engineering mindset
- Experience collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders in enterprise environments
- Proven technical leadership and problem-solving capabilities
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving scalable technical solutions
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience supporting production systems and operational best practices
- Bachelor's Degree required
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead delivery across cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:- Angular experience
- Ruby on Rails exposure
- PostgreSQL experience
- Docker experience
- CI/CD pipeline experience, preferably with CircleCI
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog and Sentry
- Financial services or fintech industry experience
- Experience within enterprise SaaS or customer-facing product organizations
