Senior Lead Full Stack Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Lead Full Stack Developer
• Focus: Technical leadership and hands-on engineering for secure, resilient, scalable cloud-native applications in financial services

Description

Lead end-to-end design, development, testing, deployment, and support of enterprise full stack applications. Define architecture and engineering standards for Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, and React on Microsoft Azure, ensuring performance, availability, security, auditability, and regulatory compliance. Mentor engineers and drive DevSecOps and production-readiness practices across the delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex enterprise-grade full stack applications
• Set solution architecture and engineering standards for Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, React, and Azure platforms
• Translate business and product requirements into maintainable designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes
• Build secure integrations with internal platforms, third parties, data services, and financial systems
• Drive cloud-native engineering using Azure compute, data, messaging, identity, monitoring, and deployment capabilities
• Establish standards for coding, APIs, testing, observability, resiliency, and documentation
• Lead design/code reviews, performance tuning, defect resolution, and production-readiness assessments
• Champion DevSecOps: CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and secure software supply-chain controls
• Partner with product, architecture, cybersecurity, risk/compliance, infrastructure, data, and operations teams
• Mentor engineers, handle production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering/IT or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years software engineering experience, including leading complex enterprise application design and delivery
• Advanced Java and Spring Boot expertise (microservices, REST APIs, security, concurrency, error handling, performance)
• Hands-on React.js (JavaScript/TypeScript), component-based UI, state management, responsive interfaces, frontend testing
• Strong Azure delivery experience (secure cloud architecture, deployment, monitoring, operational support)
• Relational databases, SQL, data modeling, transactions, and performance tuning (NoSQL familiarity beneficial)
• Event-driven/distributed system experience (messaging, caching, API gateways, patterns)
• Security expertise: authentication/authorization, encryption, secrets management, secure coding, vulnerability remediation, privacy controls
• Git-based development plus CI/CD pipelines with automated unit/integration testing and production release practices
• Experience leading technical discussions, influencing architecture, mentoring, and communicating effectively
• Experience with Azure services: App Service, AKS, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Key Vault, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage, Application Insights, Azure Monitor
• Container and IaC experience: Docker, Azure Container Apps, Terraform or Bicep, cloud configuration management
• Ability to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship (no sponsorship available)

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including 401k and pension retirement benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, and disability coverage
• Paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, and life & accident insurance
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

Salary range: $114,500–$194,700 USD (base pay estimate).