Remote Lead Platform Developer

Description Synergy Business Innovation & Solutions is a premier implementer of cutting-edge software solutions. Synergy brings the experience and expertise necessary to deliver capability that provides tangible ROI to our customers. Synergy’s core areas of expertise are in the fields of Digital Transformation, Cloud Solutions, SaaS and Low-Code/No-Code solutions, Emerging Technologies, Data analytics and Visualization, Information Assurance, and Business Process Re-Engineering.

Synergy offers its employees a generous portfolio of core and voluntary benefits including: group medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance; HSA, FSA; 401(k) with immediately vested company match; PTO/Sick Leave, 11 paid federal holidays, parental leave; tuition and training reimbursement; a referral bonus program; and life management programs.

At Synergy, you’ll be challenged and given the opportunity to grow in your career path. In fact, growth is such a big deal to us that you will have dedicated career coaches available for every employee, company-funded certification opportunities, education reimbursement, and a general open-door policy so that you have support when you need it. Our team is eager to learn, fast-paced, and quality-driven—if that sounds like you, Synergy has a position for you!

This position is designated as work-from-home.

**Description:** We’re looking for a Lead Platform Developer to own the architecture, scalability, and reliability of our core platform. You’ll lead a small team of engineers, define platform standards and patterns, and build highly available services and tooling that accelerate product teams. This role is part hands-on development, part technical leadership, and part cross-functional influence.

**Key Responsibilities**

• Own the platform architecture: Design and evolve cloud-native, multi-tenant, secure platform components (APIs, services, eventing, data pipelines, shared libraries).
• Lead the team: Mentor engineers, lead code/design reviews, improve engineering practices, and drive continuous improvement.
• Build platform capabilities: Authentication/authorization, service discovery, configuration, observability, feature flags, rollout/rollback tooling, and developer experience (DX) pipelines.
• Reliability at scale: Implement SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and chaos/resiliency testing; drive performance benchmarking and capacity planning.
• Security by design: Champion secure coding, secrets management, dependency hygiene, and compliance needs (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI—depending on domain).
• Cloud & infra automation: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, environment strategy, container orchestration, ephemeral environments.
• Data platform collaboration: Partner with data teams on streaming (e.g., Kafka), warehousing, schema governance, and data contracts.
• Technical strategy: Evaluate build vs. buy, set platform roadmaps, deprecate legacy systems, and guide modernization.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product engineering, SRE, security, QA, and architecture to deliver platform capabilities that product teams love.
• Incident leadership: Lead severity incidents, postmortems, and drive preventive improvements.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of software engineering experience, with 2–4+ years in platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems roles referred
• Expert in at least one backend language (e.g., C#/.NET, Java/Kotlin, Go, Node.js, Python).
• Strong with cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/GitLab CI/Jenkins).
• Hands-on with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, or ARM/Bicep) and environment management.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: idempotency, backpressure, eventual consistency, retries/circuit breakers, caching.
• Proven experience designing observability (logging, metrics, tracing) with tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Experience leading projects, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams.
• Clear, concise communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka/PubSub, or service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
• API design expertise (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), versioning, and contract testing (PACT).
• Security depth: OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, policy-as-code (OPA), secrets management (Vault/SM/Key Va…