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Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Internet of Things • Software
Lead design and delivery of cloud-native .NET/Azure systems, modernize legacy apps, integrate AI services, mentor engineers, enforce secure best practices, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure scalable, observable, and testable solutions.
Top Skills:
.NetAksAngularAzure Api ManagementAzure App ServicesAzure Cognitive ServicesAzure Container AppsAzure DevopsAzure Event GridAzure FunctionsAzure Key VaultAzure OpenaiAzure Service BusC#DockerGithub ActionsGithub CopilotKafkaOauth2OidcOwaspReactSQL ServerVue
Biotech
Lead software engineering efforts for the Proton platform, focusing on system design, mentorship, and innovative drug discovery projects. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to enhance engineering processes and standards within a minimalist organizational structure.
Top Skills:
AWSDjangoDockerKubernetesPostgresPython
Sports
The Lead Software Engineer will own full-stack development, DevOps, and cloud operations, building scalable analytics-driven applications for internal teams and clients, while mentoring a small engineering team.
Top Skills:
Apache AirflowAWSDockerNode.jsPythonReactTerraform
Software
The Lead Software Developer will oversee a team developing clinical trial software, manage project deliveries, and engage hands-on in coding and system design, ensuring high-quality output and mentoring team members.
Top Skills:
.NetC#SQL
Fashion
Lead design, build, and maintain CRM and MarTech integrations and services; lead technical discovery and execution; mentor engineers; collaborate with marketing and cross-functional teams; ensure system stability and participate in on-call rotations.
Top Skills:
AWSCdkCdpCloudFormationCRMEmailGoogle Tag ManagerGraphQLKafkaPostgresPush NotificationsReactRuby On RailsSidekiqSmsTerraform
Fintech • Financial Services
The Lead Software Engineer will architect and develop backend services for risk operations, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while implementing monitoring solutions.
Top Skills:
.NetAzure Cloud Native TechnologiesC#ConfluenceCosmosDockerGithub CopilotJIRAKubernetesPostmanRestful ApiSQL ServerVisioVs CodeWeb Services/Web Api
AdTech • Marketing Tech • Analytics • Consulting
The Lead Software Engineer will design and develop scalable software solutions, mentor other engineers, and guide implementation decisions to deliver maintainable solutions combining technical and business needs.
Top Skills:
AngularAzureGitGradleJavaJSONMavenPythonRest ApisSpring BootSQL
Productivity • Software
Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable backend systems and services. Improve performance, reliability, and deployments; operate production systems (incident response rotation); conduct code reviews; mentor engineers; collaborate with product, sales, and customers.
Top Skills:
Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsMicroservicesMongoDBMySQLPostgres
Healthtech • Hospitality • Telehealth
The Lead Software Engineer will design and implement scalable web and mobile applications, mentor engineers, and drive technical projects across platforms.
Top Skills:
AWSAzureDockerGCPJavaNode.jsNoSQLReactSQLTypescript
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Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Machine Learning • Social Impact • Software
The Principal Software Engineer will define technical roadmaps, guide system architecture, mentor leaders, and drive product direction in Capital Supply operations.
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AISoftware Engineering
Healthtech • Pharmaceutical
Lead software engineer responsible for designing, developing, and implementing Edifecs solutions, handling EDI transactions, and coaching a team of engineers.
Top Skills:
AWSCloud FormationDynamo DbEamEc2Edifecs SpecbuilderElbGroovy ScriptLambdaMap BuilderRdsS3Swf
Robotics
Lead the design and scaling of Serve's robotics data infrastructure, managing the lifecycle of data and mentoring engineers to enable real-time analytics and operations.
Top Skills:
BigQueryC++DataflowDbtDockerGCPGcsGoKubernetesPub/SubPython
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Fintech
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will optimize the pre-purchase experience, implement AI-driven onboarding solutions, and enhance application performance while collaborating across teams to improve user conversion rates and experiences.
Top Skills:
AWSAws CdkCloudFormationDockerGithub CopilotKubernetesMongoDBNextjsNode.jsPostgresReactTypescript
AdTech • Marketing Tech • Analytics • Consulting
Lead development of enterprise data platform services, design and deliver scalable APIs and platform capabilities (Python/FastAPI/AKS/Databricks), mentor engineers, drive engineering best practices, CI/CD, testing, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to enable AI-ready data systems.
Top Skills:
Azure Kubernetes Service (Aks)Ci/CdDatabricksFastapiGitPytestPythonRestful ApisSQLSvnUnittest
Edtech
Lead the technical direction of a new product team, focusing on system design, feasibility, and performance. Mentor engineers and drive quality standards.
Top Skills:
Automated TestingAWSCi/CdRuby On Rails
Information Technology • Software
Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, mentor DevOps engineers, and improve system reliability while fostering collaboration and continuous learning.
Top Skills:
.NetAnsibleAWSAzureAzure DevopsAzure FunctionsBashDockerGitJavaJenkinsPowershellPythonTerraformTravis Ci
Healthtech
The Lead Software Engineer oversees the design and delivery of foundational services for real-time recommendations while mentoring teams and ensuring robust, auditable systems using advanced state management and transactional patterns.
Top Skills:
DebeziumFlywayHibernateJavaJooqJpaKotlinLiquibaseMySQLNode.jsOpenapiOpentelemetryPostgresPythonTypeormTypescript
Healthtech
The Lead Software Engineer designs and maintains a high-performance decision engine, focusing on low-latency services and robust API development while ensuring compliance and observability. Responsibilities include managing rules execution, performance engineering, and leading technical reviews.
Top Skills:
AntlrDroolsGoogle CelIbm OdmJavaKafkaKotlinNettyOpaPythonSpring Boot
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Lead a team developing cloud-native security solutions, focusing on application development, architectural decisions, and maintaining high security standards.
Top Skills:
AWSAzureDockerGCPGoKubernetesNode.jsPython
Marketing Tech • Software
As a Senior Software Engineer at Aspire, you'll lead the development of user-facing features, manage complex projects, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance product functionality.
Top Skills:
Auth0DatadogDjangoDockerGitGoogle Cloud DatastoreGoogle Cloud SqlGoogle Cloud TasksGoogle Error MonitoringGoogle Kubernetes EngineGraphQLJIRANode.jsPostgresPythonReactRollbarStackdriver LoggingStorybookTypescriptVs Code
Software • Design
The Lead Software Engineer designs and develops application modules, enhances company productivity, writes tests, and collaborates on IT initiatives.
Top Skills:
FastapiJavaScriptMicrosoft Sql ServerPythonReactSQLTypescript
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Analytics • Financial Services
Lead development of AI-powered full-stack applications, mentor engineers, define technical direction, build performant front-end and scalable backend services, integrate LLMs/RAG, and establish engineering best practices for production AI workflows.
Top Skills:
AWSAzureGCPLlmsNode.jsPythonRagReactTypescript
Information Technology • Productivity • Software • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
The Senior Software Engineer, Java - Technical Lead will lead software development, architecture decisions, and mentorship in building scalable IT operations solutions.
Top Skills:
AWSC++GoJavaKotlinPostgresRedis
Automotive • Digital Media • eCommerce • Information Technology • Marketing Tech
As a Lead Frontend Software Engineer, you'll architect and develop solutions for automotive commerce, focusing on performance, accessibility, and AI integration, while leading the team in a greenfield project.
Top Skills:
Claude CodeCSSHTMLNext.JsReactRestful ApisTypescript
Information Technology • Software
The Lead Product Software Engineer will develop AI solutions, collaborate with teams, and lead projects focused on customer-centric product development using Agile methodologies.
Top Skills:
AgileAIBddChatgptGithub CopilotHugging FaceJavaScriptLangchainLlmsMlopsNlpOpenai ApisPythonTddTypescriptVector Databases
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