Lead Software Engineer (Team Lead)

CSC Generation is a retail-focused company seeking a Software Engineer (Team Lead) to own a service area within its retail service cloud. The role involves setting technical direction, designing and shipping features, modernizing legacy systems, building reusable frameworks, managing roadmaps, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as technical owner for your area or service within the retail service cloud, setting architecture direction and maintaining quality standards
• Design, build, and ship features — reading and writing code daily alongside the team
• Identify and resolve technical challenges across the stack, from profiling and refactoring to scaling the platform
• Replace legacy code and services with modern, maintainable solutions and optimize the overall stack
• Build frameworks and reusable patterns for upcoming projects across the portfolio
• Plan and communicate product roadmaps, triage sprint tickets, and push back on requests when technical tradeoffs demand it
• Mentor junior engineers through code review, pairing, and hands-on problem solving
• Help build the team by driving developer productivity and contributing to hiring decisions

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js
• Proficiency / production experience with API Gateway, AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB
• Comfortable with IAM and CloudWatch for debugging + least-privilege design
• Experience with Python and Django or comparable server-side frameworks
• Track record of owning a product or service area technically — architecture decisions, code quality, and delivery outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate other engineers while remaining a significant individual contributor
• Experience replacing or modernizing legacy systems in a production environment
• Comfort triaging competing priorities, planning sprints, and communicating technical details to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong opinions on code quality and engineering best practices, held loosely enough to find the best solution collaboratively
• Experience with retail, e-commerce, or multi-brand platform environments
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and microservices patterns
• Prior experience in a technical lead role on a small, high-output team