Lead Software Engineer

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The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for contributing to the design, development, deployment, and operation of secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions.

The role provides technical leadership within an assigned product area or project, contributes to architectural and design decisions, and ensures that solutions comply with organizational engineering, quality, security, and operational standards.

The role is expected to lead complex projects, coordinate technical delivery across participating teams, mentor software engineers, and act as a key technical contact for project stakeholders.

Your role

• Lead the technical delivery of complex projects.
• Contribute to technical planning, estimation, scheduling, dependency identification, and delivery tracking.
• Break technical solutions into implementable work packages and engineering tasks.
• Allocate or delegate technical activities within the team when appropriate.
• Monitor technical progress against agreed project objectives, quality expectations, milestones, and timelines.
• Identify technical risks, constraints, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Recommend practical mitigation and contingency measures.
• Coordinate technical activities across development, QA, DevOps, architecture, security, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Ensure that technical deliverables satisfy the agreed acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements.
• Escalate issues that may affect project scope, cost, quality, schedule, security, or architecture.
• Support release readiness assessments and production deployment decisions.
• Provide clear and timely progress updates to project and product stakeholders.
• Communicate clearly, calmly, and effectively during challenging situations, production incidents, delivery delays, or periods of increased project risk.
• Provide stakeholders with timely and transparent information about delivery risks, technical constraints, potential impacts, mitigation actions, and recovery plans.
• Facilitate constructive discussions with technical and business stakeholders to support timely decision-making during critical situations.
• Strong presentation and demonstration skills, with the ability to communicate solution capabilities effectively to clients and stakeholders.
• Provide day-to-day technical guidance to software engineers.
• Mentor junior and mid-level team members and support the development of their technical capabilities.
• Lead code reviews, design reviews, technical discussions, and engineering problem-solving sessions.
• Delegate suitable technical activities and monitor their completion.
• Encourage team members to apply coding, security, testing, documentation, and DevOps standards.
• Promote knowledge sharing, collaborative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
• Provide constructive feedback and identify development opportunities for team members.
• Facilitate collaboration among team members and other participating technical teams.
• Act as a technical escalation point within the assigned scope.
• Apply quality assurance practices throughout design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Define and enforce appropriate unit, integration, contract, API, security, performance, and regression testing expectations.
• Collaborate with QA engineers to develop test strategies and ensure adequate technical test coverage.
• Review code quality, test results, security findings, and release evidence.
• Ensure that defects are appropriately prioritized, investigated, resolved, and prevented from recurring.
• Conduct technical reviews to verify compliance with coding, architecture, security, and operational standards.
• Promote automation of repetiti…