Senior Lead Software Engineer

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The Senior Lead Software Engineer is responsible for generating creative solutions to address highly complex and critical issues to current applications and/or to create new solutions that address clients’ needs.  The Senior Lead Software Engineer is key team player who will take ownership of issues and problems and see them through to a successful resolution exercising judgement with little direction or guidance.

Location

Denver, Colorado

Responsibilities

  • Participate in technical design of new applications and existing system enhancements.
  • Provide high-level analysis and design to address and create well-integrated application systems.
  • Create clear and concise program specifications that will enable Software Engineers to code the program with minimal additional guidance.
  • Develop highly complex and critical new application solutions and enhance existing solutions by coding system features according to system designs.
  • Lead team to meet the goals of assigned projects (e.g. best practice initiatives, developing a new solution to address a never before seen client request, etc.).  This involves providing technical project leadership for highly complex solutions; driving technical direction in partnership with architects, senior leadership, etc.
  • Provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff to ensure bugs to existing applications are fixed and/or to clear up operational deficiencies in both previously released software and software slated for future release.
  • Assure program, module and system integrity through thorough testing and adherence to company standards and procedures.
  • Lead phases of the software development life cycle, including research, design, analysis, requirements, implementation, test automation, and maintenance.
  • Utilize new technologies and tools to modify products and provide integration with applications developed internally and externally.
  • Prepare and modify program and system documentation.
  • Provide guidance to less experienced team members to ensure knowledge transfer and training are successfully meeting department goals.
  • Demonstrate the willingness to take any project and successfully implement it with little or no help from more senior resources.
  • Demonstrate a high degree of skill, efficiency and be a leader to less experienced development staff.
  • Develop programs that are highly complex in nature, adhering to established departmental standards.
  • Learn and implement new technologies and architectures within a reasonably quick timeframe while producing and testing high quality software.
  • Demonstrate expert knowledge of software development practices, concepts, and technologies obtained through formal training and work experience.
  • Demonstrate expert knowledge of required programming languages.
  • Demonstrate expert knowledge of the technical/business environment.
  • Effectively partner, communicate, and negotiate with business analyst, development and support groups in order to gather and communicate business requirements.
  • Work on individual programs that are part of a much larger application.
  • Adapt to changing products and technologies.
  • Fix bugs in existing, often unfamiliar programs, under considerable time constraints.
  • Manage and prioritize often conflicting tasks and interruptions so as to minimize their impact on the current deadlines and workload. 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or comparable work experience.
  • Typically ten or more years of software development experience with database technology.
  • Demonstrated expert knowledge of software development practices, computer science theory, and understanding of relevant technologies.
  • Relevant Technologies:
  • PHP Native
  • JavaScript / NodeJS
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Java / Kotlin
  • Obj C / Swift
  • Flutter
  • Docker
  • Apache Server
  • OpenAPI
  • Harness

State-Specific Salary Range Disclosure Requirements

Salary will generally fall between $83,524 - $109,900 before adjustment for geographic differences. Recruiter can confirm if position is incentive eligible.

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Requisition Number:2025-7446


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