Software Engineering & Development Lead (Vice President)

Quick Facts

• Role: Software Engineering & Development Lead (Vice President)

• Work model: Onsite 4 days/week, 1 day remote; standard business hours aligned to project needs (8am–5pm)

• Time zone: Primarily Pacific Time Zone (California)

• Salary: $125,000–$215,000 annually

Description

Lead hands-on engineering for a large-scale, business-critical enterprise platform in a fast-paced Agile environment. You will oversee solution design, development, production readiness, and operational stability, mentor engineering talent, and communicate strategy, risks, and delivery progress to senior leadership. Build cloud-native applications in AWS for the IMS West business unit, including event-driven, microservices, and serverless patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead software engineering teams delivering large-scale enterprise applications

• Partner with business, architecture, infrastructure, and risk teams to deliver strategic technology solutions

• Oversee solution design, development, production readiness, and operational stability

• Mentor engineering talent and foster innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement

• Communicate technology strategy, risks, and delivery progress to senior leadership

• Design and develop cloud-native applications in AWS for the IMS West business unit

• Provide hands-on support during critical delivery initiatives and complex production challenges

Requirements

• 12+ years’ experience in IT developing enterprise applications and data processing solutions

• Experience with multi-platform, multi-database and/or multi-language environments

• Hands-on AWS compute experience (EC2, Lambda, ECS, or EKS) and AWS RDS (Postgres SQL development)

• Hands-on experience with ReactJS or other front-end programming languages

• Experience designing and delivering solutions on AWS or other cloud platforms

• Experience with event-driven architecture, microservices, and serverless development patterns

• Experience leading Agile delivery and adhering to SDLC processes

• Prior experience in the financial industry working on financial reporting/regulatory projects is a plus

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, coaching, and developing people and teams

• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative team-work attitude

• Must work primarily in the Pacific Time Zone (California)

• Regular collaboration with offshore teams in India and China and with U.S. East Coast management and technical teams

Benefits

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match

• Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages

• Paid time off: vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities

• Employee Assistance Program access

• Incentive compensation with eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles)

• Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans