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# Development Lead

- **Company:** Cogency Global Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Business Logic, Automation of Tests, C Sharp (Programming Language), Code Review, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, Cursor, Scrum Methodology, GitHub Copilot, Delivery Pipeline, Claude Code, AI Coding Agents, Servicebus, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, AWS Fargate, Api Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=043d78d0287ad67d

## About the Role

* 10+ years building and operating production software, including at least 3 years as a hands-on technical lead of a delivery team.
 * Has personally led the modernization of a large, database-centric legacy platform to a cloud-native architecture, and can explain in detail what worked, what didn't, and why.
 * Expert in Java or C#, with working fluency in the other; comfortable picking up new languages and frameworks quickly.
Production experience designing and running services on AWS (for example ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Step Functions, Aurora) using infrastructure as code (CDK or Terraform).

 * Experience designing APIs and event-driven integrations.
 * Demonstrated skill with AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding workflows (for example Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor), with a clear point of view on using them responsibly across a team.
 * Fluency in scrum delivery, CI/CD, automated testing, and short-lived-branch workflows.
 * A track record of raising the capability of an existing team

## Description

* Act as the technical anchor of a scrum team: own the design, the breakdown of work, and the quality of what ships, within agreed architecture and decision boundaries, while carrying a meaningful share of the delivery yourself.
 * Find the seams in a tightly coupled legacy estate and carve services out incrementally, using strangler, anti-corruption-layer, and parallel-run patterns so business logic moves out of the database and into tested, observable code.
 * Shape the API and event contracts other teams build against, making deliberate decisions about synchronous versus asynchronous integration, data ownership, idempotency, and failure handling.
 * Design for operation in AWS from day one: infrastructure as code, automated pipelines, telemetry, tested recovery, and security and cost visible to the team that owns each service.
 * Set how the team uses AI coding assistants and agents day to day: where they accelerate the work, where they need closer review, and how quality gates keep pace, with every engineer accountable for verifying correctness, security, and maintainability.
 * Coach through mentoring, design reviews, and code reviews, helping engineers with deep experience on the existing stack build confidence and capability in AWS, and modern delivery practices.
 * Work in partnership with the technology leadership technical direction, standards, and quality for the team.
 * Partner with product owners, architects and operations to sequence product delivery work around business risk, not just technical convenience.