Senior Lead Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Provide technical direction, develop and review production code, and influence product design and technical operations.
• Drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices, including validation standards and automation across the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Advocate for firmwide engineering frameworks, tools, and practices.

What they ask for

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Experience delivering secure, production-quality code in Python or Java; strong foundations in distributed systems, microservices, and platform architecture.
• Experience leading enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and validating outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Understanding of responsible AI use, practical cloud-native experience, and ability to solve design and functionality problems independently.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of statistical models, GenAI, and agentic systems for reliability engineering.
• Familiarity with ML tools and frameworks such as Python, Spark, Air flow, and cloud platforms; AWS experience or certifications preferred.

Pay

Jersey City,NJ $156,750.00-$215,000.00 (base salary)

Tools

Python, Java, distributed systems, microservices, SDLC/TLM, Spark, Air flow, AWS

AI focus

Govern and promote enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software engineering for coding, code review, refactoring, testing, troubleshooting, release readiness, and incident/root-cause analysis; set standards for validating AI outputs and using AI responsibly and securely.