Lead Software Engineer - Fullstack(ReactJS, AWS, Javascript, Typescript, CI/CD)

About Ellucian Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian’s AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian’s innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

About The Opportunity Higher education customers are transforming to modern campuses while leveraging technology and solutions to enable student success. We are currently looking for Lead Software Engineer – Full Stack to join our Allocation Based Registration product team. Looking for someone innovative, intellectually curious, that has a solution-oriented attitude and enjoys learning new tools and technologies and that enjoys working in an agile environment, having technical expertise in full-stack application development using Node.JS and React and hands-on experience with the full software development cycle, from design to deployment.

You will work with a team of developers who are passionate about delivering world-class, customer-focused SaaS solutions for higher education. This is a high impact role collaborating with the product manager, development team members, and other stake holders in a highly matrixed environment If you are excited in shaping the future of higher education and make an impact to student life, then let’s talk!

Where You Will Make an Impact

• Lead the design, development, testing, and delivery of high-quality, scalable enterprise software, driving technical excellence across the team.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, fostering engineering best practices and enabling team members to grow and succeed.
• Champion AI-driven software development by leading the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and tools that improve developer productivity, software quality, and delivery velocity.
• Establish best practices for the responsible use of AI, ensuring AI-generated code and artifacts are validated, secure, maintainable, and aligned with engineering standards.
• Architect robust, maintainable, and performant solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements while exceeding customer expectations.
• Drive a quality-first engineering culture by championing automated testing, code quality, security, reliability, and performance throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Lead technical planning, design reviews, and implementation efforts, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and business objectives.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features and initiatives—from requirements analysis and solution design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Collaborate effectively with product managers, architects, QA, DevOps, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Make sound technical decisions, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term maintainability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, effectively navigating ambiguity, evolving priorities, and complex technical challenges.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to optimize architecture, development processes, tooling, and engineering practices.
• Champion innovation through continuous learning, evaluating emerging technologies, and promoting their thoughtful adoption where they deliver business value.
• Lead the team from both a technical and delivery perspective, ensuring predictable execution, high engineering standards, and successful outcomes.
• Proactively identify technical risks, dependencies, and architectural impacts, and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery.
• Influence engineering direction by raising the technical bar t…