Lead Software Engineer

Lennar is a leading homebuilder dedicated to building quality homes, providing exceptional customer service, and fostering career growth for its associates. The Lead Software Engineer will design, develop, test, and deploy software applications while translating business requirements into technical solutions. The role leads full-stack delivery, establishes engineering practices, mentors software engineers, and oversees modern web, cloud, and AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with project stakeholders (product owners, UX researchers, data team, QA team, project managers, cross team leads and designers) to understand functional and non-functional requirements
• Promote a collaborative team environment and work closely with colleagues to achieve business objectives
• Responsible for planning work estimation and forecasting
• Adhere to architecture, design, implementation, security standards and best practices
• Investigate and propose solutions to development and design problems
• Conduct analysis to determine integration needs, and design and plan integrations
• Prepare technical documentation, including software design evaluation plans and test results
• Write high-quality code that satisfies customer needs and strives for simplicity, clarity, and testability
• Implement unit and integration tests and conduct functional and performance testing where appropriate
• Participate in code reviews or use collaborative programming techniques to promote high quality business outcomes
• Develop reusable software building blocks to enable faster delivery
• Improve performance of existing software by diagnosing and resolving critical issues
• Establish development practices and processes
• Manage and mentor software engineers
• Lead full-stack delivery across Python and FastAPI backend services and TypeScript and React frontend applications, including AWS infrastructure deployed via Terraform and GitHub Actions
• Direct AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude, or similar) to accelerate development while owning code quality and review standards

Requirements:

• • Master's degree in computer science and worked at a company for 5+ years with web technology stack and web standards
• • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems or equivalent degree and worked at a company for 7+ years with web technology stack and web standards
• • Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks
• • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• • Proven track record for managing a team of developers to achieve company goals
• • Proven track record for architecting, scaling and implementing complex technical solutions
• • Proven track record of leadership in Agile environments, with excellent communication and collaboration skills, and a passion for mentoring and empowering team members
• • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing
• • Strong expertise in JavaScript (7+ years) with deep understanding of advanced principles of client-side and server-side development
• • High proficiency in React.js (5+ years), with a solid background in building performant UI components with modern hooks and design patterns
• • Strong command of semantic HTML and modern CSS, including CSS-in-JS with a focus on accessibility, SEO, and responsive design principles
• • Proficiency in Next.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL, demonstrating the ability to architect and implement robust front-end solutions
• • Knowledge in building and tooling processes such as CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and package managers, coupled with extensive experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex issues
• • Demonstrated use of AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude, or similar) in daily development with strong judgment on when to trust, verify, or override their output and ownership of code quality
• • Track record of setting and enforcing a CI quality gate across multiple repositories (typecheck, lint, format, test, build) and working in issue-driven GitHub workflows
• This is primarily a sedentary office position which requires the incumbent to have the ability to operate computer equipment, speak, hear, bend, stoop, reach, lift, and move and carry up to 25 lbs. Finger dexterity is necessary.
• • Headless CMS (Content Management System)
• • E-commerce
• • A/B testing
• • Backend development
• • High-traffic websites
• • Content Delivery Network
• • Cloud platforms
• • 3rd-party integrations (frontend)
• • Data analytics