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Brooksource lists this Lead Software Engineer opportunity in charlotte, North Carolina. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
We are seeking a Technical Lead to provide technical direction and architectural leadership for backend platform services, application integrations, and data driven systems. This role works closely with Senior Back End Software Engineers, data engineers, product managers, and platform teams to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned to long term platform strategy.
The Technical Lead is a hands‑on senior engineer who sets technical direction, drives design decisions, and raises the overall engineering bar—while remaining actively involved in implementation, reviews, and operational ownership.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Own and evolve the technical architecture for platform services, application integrations, and data pipelines
Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and platform standards
Lead technical design reviews and ensure solutions align with scalability, reliability, and security principles
Balance short‑term delivery needs with longterm platform health and maintainability
Act as and/or work with Product owner to create Epics and Stories to facilitate Developer execution.
Perform ad‑hoc analysis of incoming features to help scope out efforts and align technical partners.
Guide the design of shared backend services and integration layers used across teams
Establish best practices for API design, eventdriven architectures, data contracts, and schema evolution
Ensure consistent integration patterns across batch and realtime streaming systems
Act as the technical escalation point for complex crosssystem integrations
Contribute production quality code alongside the team using Python, FastAPI, and AWS services
Design and review systems built with AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, Kafka, AWS Glue, and PySpark
Guide data ingestion and transformation approaches using AWS DMS, streaming, and batch pipelines
Ensure solutions are observable, testable, and operationally sound
Infrastructure, CI/CD & Platform Enablement
Provide technical leadership for Terraformbased infrastructure as code
Define standards and patterns for CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and environment management
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Worksite address
charlotte, NC, 28245, US
Who can apply
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