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# Lead Software Engineer

- **Company:** ITHAKA STUDIOS, LLC
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $145,000.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Github, Design of User Interfaces, Enterprise Messaging Systems, Web Applications, Web Application Frameworks, ReactJS, Delivery Pipeline, Backend, Vue.js, Event Driven Architecture, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Functional Programming, Restful APIs, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.military.com/career/373615/lead-software-engineer-platform-engineering-new-york-ny-new-york

## About the Role

* A minimum of 8 years as a full-stack software engineer delivering large-scale, distributed web applications.\n
 * Able to act as a strategic product thinker and community builder\n
 * Proven ability to design and develop scalable backend services and RESTful APIs.\n
 * Hands-on development of user-facing or internal web applications using modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue), informed by UI/UX and accessibility best practices.\n
 * Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts, automation, and software delivery pipelines, including tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.\n
 * Practical expertise contributing to or operating internal developer platforms, enablement tooling, or shared services.\n
 * Strong experience working with AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, EKS) and deploying applications using Docker and Kubernetes.\n
 * Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform.\n
 * Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.\n
 * Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize performance across the stack.\n
 * Comfort collaborating in Agile, cross-functional, and distributed or self-directed teams.\n
 * Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts, designs, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n