Lead Software Developer
Quick Summary
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications,
This is a senior technical leadership role focused on building and evolving enterprise-scale backend, data, and analytics platforms.
You will play a key role in shaping a modern data architecture, with a strategic focus on Snowflake-based analytics and data services.
The position combines hands-on software engineering with technical leadership across cloud platforms, databases, data engineering, and analytics.
You will influence architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and deliver scalable capabilities that support business-critical applications.
The role also provides opportunities to work with AI-enabled data products, modern analytics solutions, and cloud-native technologies.
You will collaborate with architects, product leaders, engineers, and other stakeholders while mentoring technical teams and driving best practices.
The position offers a high degree of autonomy and the opportunity to shape technical direction across multiple engineering initiatives.
- Lead the design and evolution of enterprise data-platform architecture, establishing standards and best practices for data storage, integration, analytics, and governance.
- Drive the adoption and implementation of Snowflake-based solutions for reporting, analytics, AI-enabled data products, and enterprise data-warehouse initiatives.
- Own database architecture, performance optimization, operational reliability, and cost management across Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server environments.
- Design and maintain scalable data-ingestion, transformation, and integration solutions capable of supporting high-volume application data.
- Develop analytics and self-service reporting capabilities, including semantic models, BI integrations, and intelligent data experiences.
- Contribute to Snowflake Cortex-powered solutions, including AI-assisted analytics and AI-enabled data products where appropriate.
- Partner with backend engineering teams to design and evolve scalable Java services, REST APIs, and distributed systems supporting business-critical applications.
- Develop cloud-native solutions using AWS services and modern DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Build Python-based automation, orchestration, data-processing, and platform-tooling solutions.
- Collaborate with architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to define scalable, maintainable, and long-term technical solutions.
- Establish engineering standards, promote platform consistency, and drive operational excellence across multiple teams.
- Mentor engineers, share technical expertise, and influence engineering practices beyond the immediate team.
Requirements
~2 min read- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications, platforms, or data systems.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives with a high degree of autonomy.
- Strong relational database expertise, particularly with SQL Server or PostgreSQL, including query optimization and performance tuning for transactional systems.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating Snowflake-based data platforms in production environments.
- Strong understanding of data engineering, data warehousing, dimensional modeling, and OLAP concepts.
- Experience with modern business intelligence and analytics platforms such as Sigma, Power BI, Tableau, or comparable technologies.
- Experience with Snowflake Cortex, semantic views, AI/ML capabilities, agents, AI-assisted analytics, or AI-powered data products is highly desirable.
- Strong Java development experience with technologies such as Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, REST APIs, and microservice architectures.
- Strong AWS experience, including services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, and infrastructure-as-code solutions.
- Strong Python development skills for automation, orchestration, data engineering, and platform tooling.
- Understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and messaging technologies such as Kafka.
- Practical experience using AI tools to improve software development productivity and workflows.
- Strong communication, mentoring, stakeholder-management, and technical leadership abilities.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams and drive adoption of engineering standards and best practices.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment while operating independently on complex technical problems.
What We Offer
~2 min readLocation & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- October 1, 2026
- First seen
- October 1, 2026
- Last seen
- October 3, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 2
- Repost count
- 1
- Trust Level
- 62%
- Scored at
- October 4, 2026
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