Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Cloud Platform, Minnetonka, MN (Onsite)

Position Summary
We are seeking a highly technical and hands-on Lead Software Engineer to drive the design, development, modernization, and operational excellence of large-scale cloud-native platforms. This role will provide technical leadership across application architecture, microservices, cloud infrastructure, integrations, DevOps, observability, resiliency, and security.
The ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers while actively contributing to architecture decisions, software development, cloud deployments, production support, and platform modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Technical Leadership
Define and evolve enterprise-scale cloud and application architectures.
Establish architecture standards, design patterns, security controls, and development best practices.
Drive high-availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency strategies.
Review solution designs and perform architecture governance.
Full Stack Application Development
Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable web applications.
Build modern responsive front-end applications.
Develop RESTful and event-driven APIs.
Ensure performance optimization, caching, security, and application reliability.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Design and implement cloud-native solutions in Microsoft Azure.
Lead containerization initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
Implement cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Manage cloud networking, traffic routing, CDN integration, API gateways, and security controls.
Microservices Engineering
Design and develop distributed microservices.
Implement reactive programming patterns.
Build resilient services using Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, Node.js, circuit breakers, caching, asynchronous processing, and API Gateway patterns.
DevOps & Automation
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
Automate testing, deployments, monitoring, and operational processes.
Implement blue-green and zero-downtime deployment strategies.
Drive engineering productivity and release automation.
Reliability Engineering & Operations
Lead production support and incident response.
Implement observability solutions including logging, monitoring, health checks, alerting, and distributed tracing.
Perform root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes.
Data & Integration Engineering
Build scalable integrations with internal and external platforms.
Design solutions utilizing PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, MySQL, Redis, event streaming, and REST APIs.
Drive API governance and integration security.
Team Leadership
Lead and mentor software engineers.
Conduct code reviews and design reviews.
Establish engineering standards and quality metrics.
Collaborate with product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders.

Required Qualifications
Experience
10+ years of software engineering experience.
5+ years leading engineering teams or major platform initiatives.
Experience developing and operating mission-critical customer-facing applications.
Experience supporting large-scale digital platforms with high transaction volumes.
Programming Languages
Java
Node.js
JavaScript / TypeScript
SQL
Front-End Technologies
Angular
React
HTML5
CSS3
Bootstrap
SPA Architecture
Backend Technologies
Spring Boot
Spring MVC
Spring WebFlux
REST Services
Microservices
Event-Driven Architecture
Reactive Programming
Cloud & Infrastructure
Microsoft Azure
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure App Services
Azure API Management
Azure Traffic Manager
Azure CDN
Azure Redis
Azure AI Services
Database Technologies
Azure PostgreSQL
NoSQL DB
MySQL
Redis Cache
DevOps
Git
Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions
CI/CD Pipelines
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Automated Testing
Observability
Application Monitoring
Distributed Tracing
Log Analytics
Performance Tuning

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering practices, production operations, resiliency, observability, incident management, performance, and continuous improvement.
Optum | Minnesota (MN)