Lead Software Engineer - Data and Payments Business Observability Platform

What you'll do

• Design and deliver scalable monitoring services and data-heavy React interfaces, including event-driven workflows and database access patterns.
• Set engineering standards and lead delivery planning, CI/CD, deployment strategy, and production readiness.
• Promote responsible, enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices with validation standards for security, correctness, and performance.

What they ask for

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• 2+ years in a technical lead or lead engineer role, driving design and delivery with cross-functional partners.
• Strong hands-on Java and Spring Boot expertise; working proficiency in Python; experience with Kafka, MySQL, and Databricks.
• Experience with AWS, React, Jenkins CI/CD, modern deployment practices, and approved AI-assisted development tools; responsible AI use in engineering workflows.

Nice to have

• Deep AWS experience; distributed tracing and observability experience.
• Docker and Kubernetes/ECS/EKS, Infrastructure-as-Code, security-minded engineering, or relevant monitoring and operational analytics domain experience.

Pay

$156,750.00-$215,000.00 USD base salary

Tools

React, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, Databricks, AWS, Jenkins

AI focus

Lead adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting, and automation; establish validation practices and coach engineers on safe, compliant use, including data sensitivity and secure handling of inputs and outputs.