Lead Software Engineer
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Lead Software Engineer at Varsity Brands responsible for complex platform architecture and development. Drive technical leadership and modernization initiatives for scalable digital solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Lead architecture and design efforts for complex applications, services, and platform capabilities
- Drive technical decision-making across multiple teams and technology domains
- Establish scalable, maintainable, and secure architecture patterns
- Promote consistency in engineering approaches, frameworks, and development standards
- Review and influence major technical designs and implementation strategies
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and platform strategy
- Lead development of reusable platform services and shared engineering capabilities
- Drive modernization initiatives supporting cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures
- Identify opportunities to simplify systems, eliminate duplication, and improve maintainability
- Guide technical debt reduction efforts and platform optimization initiatives
- Promote engineering practices that improve reliability, scalability, and operational performance
- Establish and promote engineering best practices across development teams
- Drive adoption of automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps practices
- Improve software quality through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching
- Champion performance, security, resiliency, and operational excellence standards
- Support continuous improvement of engineering processes and delivery methods
- Mentor Software Engineers I, II, and III while helping prepare future Lead Engineers
- Provide technical coaching and career guidance to engineers across the organization
- Share knowledge through architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical forums
- Help establish a culture of learning, collaboration, and engineering excellence
- Partner with Product Management, Design, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering teams
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Evaluate tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability
- Influence technology roadmaps and engineering priorities
- Drive alignment among stakeholders with varying technical and business objectives
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 8–12+ years of progressive software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience leading architecture and technical design across multiple systems or teams
- Experience building scalable applications, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native solutions
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Health Care Benefits
- HSA Employer Contribution/ FSA Opportunities
- Wellbeing Program
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- Company paid Life, AD&D, and Short-Term Disability
- Generous My Time Off & Paid Holidays
- Varsity Brands Ownership Program
- Employee Resource Groups
- Access to Financial Coaching and member-owned Credit Union
- St. Jude Partnership & Volunteer Opportunities
- Employee Perks including discounts on personal apparel and equipment!
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