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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Cloud Platform - **Company:** Optum, Inc - **Location:** Minnetonka, MN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Applications Architecture, Application Services, HTML5, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Bootstrap (Software), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Cloud Computing, Code Review, Databases, Data Integration, Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Github, HP Systems Insight Manager, Internet Security, Spring Framework, PostgreSQL, Log Analysis, MySQL, Node.Js, NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Cloud Services, Azure Machine Learning, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Web Platforms, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Spring-mvc, ReactJS, Spring-boot, Caching, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, AngularJS, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Azure AKS, Reactive Programming, Front End Software Development, Api Gateway, Restful APIs, Terraform, Dynatrace, Api Management, Docker, Programming Languages, Microservices - **Published:** September 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/2771434c-b7cb-407a-8adf-f5e65ee254ab ## About the Role * 10+ years of software engineering experience. * 5+ years leading engineering teams or major platform initiatives. * Experience developing and operating mission-critical customer-facing applications. * Experience supporting large-scale digital platforms with high transaction volumes. Programming Languages * Java * Node.js * JavaScript / TypeScript * SQL Front-End Technologies * Angular * React * HTML5 * CSS3 * Bootstrap * SPA Architecture ## Description We are seeking a highly technical and hands-on Lead Software Engineer to drive the design, development, modernization, and operational excellence of large-scale cloud-native platforms. This role will provide technical leadership across application architecture, microservices, cloud infrastructure, integrations, DevOps, observability, resiliency, and security. The ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers while actively contributing to architecture decisions, software development, cloud deployments, production support, and platform modernization initiatives., Architecture & Technical Leadership * Define and evolve enterprise-scale cloud and application architectures. * Establish architecture standards, design patterns, security controls, and development best practices. * Drive high-availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency strategies. * Review solution designs and perform architecture governance. Full Stack Application Development * Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable web applications. * Build modern responsive front-end applications. * Develop RESTful and event-driven APIs. * Ensure performance optimization, caching, security, and application reliability. Cloud & Platform Engineering * Design and implement cloud-native solutions in Microsoft Azure. * Lead containerization initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS). * Implement cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). * Manage cloud networking, traffic routing, CDN integration, API gateways, and security controls. Microservices Engineering * Design and develop distributed microservices. * Implement reactive programming patterns. * Build resilient services using Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, Node.js, circuit breakers, caching, asynchronous processing, and API Gateway patterns. DevOps & Automation * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines. * Automate testing, deployments, monitoring, and operational processes. * Implement blue-green and zero-downtime deployment strategies. * Drive engineering productivity and release automation. Reliability Engineering & Operations * Lead production support and incident response. * Implement observability solutions including logging, monitoring, health checks, alerting, and distributed tracing. * Perform root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes. Data & Integration Engineering * Build scalable integrations with internal and external platforms. * Design solutions utilizing PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, MySQL, Redis, event streaming, and REST APIs. * Drive API governance and integration security. Team Leadership * Lead and mentor software engineers. * Conduct code reviews and design reviews. * Establish engineering standards and quality metrics. * Collaborate with product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders., * Spring Boot * Spring MVC * Spring WebFlux * REST Services * Microservices * Event-Driven Architecture * Reactive Programming Cloud & Infrastructure * Microsoft Azure * Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) * Azure App Services * Azure API Management * Azure Traffic Manager * Azure CDN * Azure Redis * Azure AI Services Database Technologies * Azure PostgreSQL * NoSQL DB * MySQL * Redis Cache DevOps * Git * Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions * CI/CD Pipelines * Docker * Kubernetes * Terraform * Automated Testing Observability * Application Monitoring * Distributed Tracing * Log Analytics * Performance Tuning Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering practices, production operations, resiliency, observability, incident management, performance, and continuous improvement. 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