Lead Software Developer - Primate Technologies

Primate Technologies, LLC provides software and related services for mission-critical environments.

We are seeking a Lead Software Developer to serve as the technical lead and primary software developer for a mission-critical software platform, combining hands-on software development with architecture, technical leadership, and technical ownership. This role is responsible for a product line that includes Java, C++, and AI-based components, and combines technical leadership with active software development, architecture, technical decision-making, and engineering planning and execution. The ideal candidate is an experienced software developer who enjoys solving complex technical problems while collaborating with product, business, and technical stakeholders through the full software development lifecycle.

Job Duties:

• Serve as the technical leader and technical owner of the product platform, maintaining deep knowledge of the system architecture while guiding its long-term technical evolution in support of customer implementations, product enhancements, and future product growth.
• Design, develop, and maintain software components in Java and C++ across multiple product releases.
• Drive the integration and evolution of AI/ML capabilities across the product line, including leveraging appropriate AI technologies, frameworks and APIs where appropriate.
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to define technical solutions, provide engineering input on work prioritization, and plan and sequence engineering work.
• Establish and maintain software architecture, engineering standards, coding standards, and development best practices while driving technical decision-making across the software development lifecycle.
• Lead and participate directly in software estimates, technical feasibility assessments, implementation, code reviews, debugging, risk analysis, and performance optimization.
• Ensure software quality through automated testing, continuous integration, and code quality practices.
• Provide engineering support for product deployments when development expertise is required, serve as the escalation point for complex software defects and technical issues requiring development expertise, and drive continuous product improvement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the product architecture and development process.
• Provide technical feasibility assessments, engineering estimates, and recommendations to support the evaluation of custom development versus standard product solutions for potential or existing customers.
• Create and maintain architecture, design, API, and other engineering documentation, and provide technical review of customer-facing knowledge articles and support resources where development expertise is required.
• When on-site development expertise is required, travel to user sites to assist in troubleshooting in customers’ test and production environments.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technologies, software engineering practices, cybersecurity requirements, and emerging industry trends
• Provide technical input on server, hosting, and environment requirements for software deployments, and support escalated infrastructure issues that require specialized software-development knowledge, subject to appropriate authorization, access controls, and change-management procedures.
• Own the software architecture and technical evolution of the platform throughout its lifecycle, addressing scalability, modernization, technical debt, system performance, security, and long-term maintainability, and provide technical feasibility assessments, engineering estimates, risks, and recommendations that inform product roadmap and business prioritization decisions owned by business and product leadership.
• Champion modern software engineering practices, including source control, automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, secure coding, technical release readiness, API design, and software observability to improve product quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Participate in customer engagements when software architecture, integrations, technical feasibility, solution design, or complex engineering troubleshooting requires development expertise, including providing engineering estimates, technical requirements, and dependencies for implementation planning.
• Promptly identify, document, and escalate suspected security vulnerabilities, incidents…