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We are seeking a hands-on software development leader to provide technical leadership, delivery alignment, and engineering consistency across all proprietary software development. This role is responsible for ensuring high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions that support critical business operations while remaining actively engaged in system design and development.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who works alongside development teams, contributing to architecture, solving complex technical problems, and improving delivery outcomes without introducing unnecessary process or management layers. This role operates within a lean organizational model and emphasizes execution, ownership, and practical engineering discipline.

This role also provides cross-team leadership, partnering closely with IT, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment across systems and priorities. Exposure to or experience with AI-assisted development tools is strongly preferred, particularly in improving developer productivity, automation, and software quality.


Key Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across multiple development teams without introducing unnecessary management layers
  • Actively participate in architecture, solution design, and complex development efforts
  • Serve as an escalation point for difficult technical and delivery challenges across teams
  • Ensure consistent, practical engineering standards across applications, integrations, and services
  • Drive improved delivery outcomes by identifying and removing cross-team friction
  • Establish and reinforce strong QA and testing practices, including automated testing, test coverage, and quality ownership within development teams
  • Partner closely with QA resources to improve defect prevention, testing efficiency, and release quality
  • Collaborate with DevOps to ensure effective CI/CD pipelines, deployment practices, and environment consistency
  • Participate in code reviews and guide technical decision-making for critical systems
  • Promote the use of AI-assisted development tooling to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery speed
  • Identify opportunities to automate development, testing, and operational workflows using AI or scripting approaches
  • Evaluate AI-generated outputs and ensure appropriate validation, security, and human oversight are maintained
  • Establish and maintain alignment with enterprise architecture, integration patterns, and platform standards
  • Partner with cybersecurity to ensure secure coding practices and timely remediation of vulnerabilities
  • Maintain accountability for application performance, reliability, and production support readiness
  • Work directly within development tools, platforms, and codebases when needed to support delivery
  • Partner with business and IT stakeholders to align development efforts with priorities and business outcomes
  • Track delivery effectiveness and apply lightweight metrics to improve execution without adding unnecessary process
  • Evaluate tools, platforms, and vendors that improve development efficiency or reduce operational complexity
  • Influence development practices across teams through hands-on engagement, not formal governance
  • Lead and mentor team leads and senior engineers, strengthening technical and leadership capabilities
  • Continuously experiment with emerging technologies, including AI, to improve engineering effectiveness