Lead Software Engineer (Java)

Very is a fully distributed technology firm that specializes in creating efficient, scalable solutions for various clients. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will serve as the key technical architect across multiple client engagements, ensuring that system design and implementation align with customer goals and business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture reviews, ensuring technical integrity, maintainability, and security
• Partner with Product Managers and Technical Leads to translate client needs into technical plans and deliverables
• Contribute high-quality, production-ready code, modeling best practices for implementation and testing
• Ensure adherence to Very’s standards for code quality, testing, and documentation
• Create and maintain automated tests across all layers of the stack
• Develop and manage deployments, CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Support project health through proactive technical risk identification and mitigation
• Participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback that improves overall quality
• Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and development of engineering talent
• Represent Very in client meetings and at industry events as a subject-matter expert
• Lead junior engineers on client programs through development and 24/7 on-call rotation and assist in diagnosing and resolving production issues

Requirements:

• BS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• 4+ years of experience developing Java based backend applications
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role overseeing cross-functional engineering teams
• Proven success delivering full-stack systems from concept to production
• Demonstrated ability to maintain public facing production systems at scale
• Experience leading complex projects involving platform, backend and frontend development
• Strong client-facing communication and executive presentation skills
• Deep expertise in multiple backend frameworks especially Django and Dropwizard
• Strong front-end experience in React, Expo, Vite, TypeScript
• Skilled in relational and non-relational data modeling
• Extensive knowledge in building from scratch and supporting event driven cloud platforms in AWS and Azure including security, logging, monitoring, observability and performance at scale
• AWS service expertise: Lambda, ECS, Fargate, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS
• Highly proficient in CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Pulimi)
• Must be US-based
• US Citizen (required)
• Must be able to pass a Federal Personnel Security clearance (company will facilitate)
• Professional services or consulting experience strongly preferred