Senior Lead Full Stack Developer

Quick Facts

Role: Senior Lead Full Stack Developer for secure, resilient, cloud-native applications in the financial services industry. You will combine hands-on engineering with architecture, delivery leadership, and mentorship.

Description

Lead the end-to-end design, development, testing, deployment, and support of enterprise-grade full stack applications. Define solution architecture and engineering standards across Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, React, and Azure-based platforms—meeting performance, availability, security, auditability, and regulatory compliance needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise full stack applications
• Set architecture and engineering standards for backend services, APIs, frontend, and Azure platforms
• Turn business/product requirements into maintainable designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes
• Develop high-quality backend services and responsive React user interfaces for complex features
• Design secure integrations with internal platforms, third parties, data services, and financial systems
• Drive cloud-native engineering across Azure compute, data, messaging, identity, monitoring, and deployment
• Enforce standards for coding, APIs, testing, observability, resiliency, and documentation
• Run design/code reviews, performance tuning, defect resolution, and production readiness assessments
• Champion DevSecOps with CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and secure supply-chain controls
• Collaborate with product, architecture, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, infrastructure, data, and operations teams
• Mentor engineers; lead incident response and root-cause analysis with corrective actions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading complex enterprise application design and delivery
• Advanced Java and Spring Boot expertise (microservices, REST APIs, security, concurrency, error handling, performance optimization)
• Strong hands-on React.js experience (component-based design, state management, responsive interfaces, frontend testing)
• Proven Microsoft Azure experience (secure cloud architecture, deployment, monitoring, and operational support)
• Strong relational database and SQL knowledge (data modeling, transactions, performance tuning); NoSQL patterns a plus
• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging, caching, API gateways, and distributed systems design patterns
• Strong understanding of authentication/authorization, encryption, secrets management, secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and privacy controls
• Git-based development with CI/CD pipelines and automated unit/integration testing; experience with release practices
• Proven ability to lead technical discussions, influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Experience with Azure services such as App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Key Vault, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage, Application Insights, and Azure Monitor
• Ability to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future

Benefits

• Retirement benefits including 401(k) and pension
• Health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, disability
• Paid time off; parental and caregiver leave
• Life & accident insurance and other voluntary and well-being benefits
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component