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# Lead Software Engineer

- **Company:** Brooksource
- **Location:** Charlotte, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Application Integration Architecture, Software as a Service, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Warehousing, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Service Discovery, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Data Processing, Enterprise Software Applications, Load Balancing, Data Ingestion, AWS Lambda, Backend, Fastapi, Pyspark, AWS Glue, Qlikview, AWS Fargate, Apache Kafka, Route53, Api Design, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Amazon Redshift, Microservices
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75932111-lead-software-engineer

## About the Role

* 8+ years of experience in backend, platform, or distributed systems engineering
 * Prior experience acting as a technical lead or architecture owner
 * Strong proficiency in Python and cloudnative backend development
 * Deep experience with AWS services and distributed architectures
 * Handson experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines
 * Experience supporting production systems with oncall responsibilities
 * Strong understanding of streaming and batch integration patterns

## Description

The Technical Lead is a hands-on senior engineer who sets technical direction, drives design decisions, and raises the overall engineering bar-while remaining actively involved in implementation, reviews, and operational ownership., Technical Leadership & Architecture

 * Own and evolve the technical architecture for platform services, application integrations, and data pipelines
 * Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and platform standards
 * Lead technical design reviews and ensure solutions align with scalability, reliability, and security principles
 * Balance short-term delivery needs with longterm platform health and maintainability
 * Act as and/or work with Product owner to create Epics and Stories to facilitate Developer execution.
 * Perform ad-hoc analysis of incoming features to help scope out efforts and align technical partners.

Platform & Integration Strategy

 * Guide the design of shared backend services and integration layers used across teams
 * Establish best practices for API design, eventdriven architectures, data contracts, and schema evolution
 * Ensure consistent integration patterns across batch and realtime streaming systems
 * Act as the technical escalation point for complex crosssystem integrations

Hands-On Engineering

 * Contribute production quality code alongside the team using Python, FastAPI, and AWS services
 * Design and review systems built with AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, Kafka, AWS Glue, and PySpark
 * Guide data ingestion and transformation approaches using AWS DMS, streaming, and batch pipelines
 * Ensure solutions are observable, testable, and operationally sound

Infrastructure, CI/CD & Platform Enablement

 * Provide technical leadership for Terraformbased infrastructure as code
 * Define standards and patterns for CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and environment management
 * Guide decisions around networking, load balancing, service discovery, and scaling
 * Ensure infrastructure and delivery pipelines support safe, repeatable, lowrisk releases

Operational Ownership & OnCall Leadership

 * Participate in the oncall rotation and serve as a senior escalation point during incidents
 * Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postincident reviews
 * Drive improvements in system resiliency, monitoring, alerting, and automation
 * Promote a culture of operational excellence and shared ownership

Mentorship & Team Enablement

 * Mentor senior and midlevel engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and technical coaching
 * Raise engineering quality through standards, documentation, and best practices
 * Partner with Product and TPMs to shape technical scope, sequencing, and delivery plans
 * Influence without authority, helping teams make better technical decisions

Core Technologies

The Technical Lead will guide and work within the following technology stack:

 * Python
 * FastAPI
 * AWS Lambda
 * ECS Fargate
 * Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL)
 * DynamoDB
 * Kafka
 * AWS Glue
 * PySpark
 * AWS DMS
 * Terraform
 * CI/CD Pipelines
 * Route 53 & AWS Load Balancers
 * Streaming and Batch Data Processing
 * Qlik (analytics / BI consumption)

Preferred / Nice to Have Experience

 * Data warehousing and analytical modeling concepts
 * Experience designing platforms, shared services, or internal developer platforms
 * Familiarity with eventdriven, microservices, and API first architectures
 * Experience supporting enterprise application integrations (ERP, CRM, SaaS platforms)
 * Amazon Redshift