Lead Software Developer, Corporate Development Portal

THE ROLE

• Hugo’s Corporate Development department needs a lead engineer to own the Corporate Development Portal, part of Hugo’s internal Intelligence Hub. Senior leaders use it daily for a trusted view of business performance, planning and strategic initiatives. You will own the Portal end to end: architecture, delivery, quality and production health. You bring a background in analytics and financial intelligence platforms, and you know how to turn financial and operational data into figures an executive can act on with confidence.

ABOUT THE PRODUCT

• The Portal is an evolving application with a live roadmap. It brings together:
• Financial and operational dashboards with real time data
• KPI and OKR tracking, active projects and the documents behind each planning cycle
• A knowledge base and document repositories, with an AI layer on top
• Role based access, so every user sees the data their role allows

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Take the existing prototype to a production application on the Intelligence Hub, then lead its continuous evolution.
• Own the architecture and technical roadmap, and present options and tradeoffs clearly to the executive sponsor and department leaders.
• Design the data models, metric definitions and reconciliation checks that keep financial figures consistent across dashboards, reports and the AI layer.
• Build frontend pages and components in React, with charts in Recharts.
• Build backend routes in Node and Express that serve warehouse and Postgres data to the UI.
• Own the data pipelines that feed the Portal and keep every dashboard figure matching its source.
• Design and build the AI layer, including agents that work from the knowledge base and natural language querying of dashboards.
• Design and implement authentication and role based access for multiple user groups, in line with Hugo’s data security standards.
• Set the code review, testing, documentation and release practices for the Portal, and align them with Hugo’s wider engineering standards.
• Keep the Portal available and fast in production, with runbooks the wider team can follow.
• Guide and review the work of any engineers or contractors added to the Portal as it grows.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• 8+ years of professional full stack development, including at least one data heavy product that you architected and led to production.
• Hands-on experience building analytics platforms and financial intelligence products, such as performance reporting, FP&A, planning, treasury, investor reporting or business intelligence systems, where accuracy of the numbers is central to the product.
• Experience leading technical direction as a tech lead, staff engineer or engineering lead, including mentoring other engineers.
• Strong JavaScript across the stack: React on the frontend, Node.js and Express on the backend.
• Strong SQL and deep experience with PostgreSQL or a comparable relational database.
• Experience building data heavy dashboards and analytics applications.
• Experience modelling financial data, including metric definitions, period handling, currency and reconciliation to source systems.
• Production experience with authentication and role based access control, and sound practices for protecting confidential data.
• Experience with BigQuery or another cloud data warehouse.
• Experience with a BI tool such as Omni, Looker, Tableau or Power BI.
• Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Git and GitHub workflow, including leading code review.
• A record of working directly with executives and business stakeholders, and turning loose requests into scoped deliveries.

STRONG ADVANTAGES

• Experience integrating LLMs or building AI agents in production, especially natural language querying over financial data.
• Experience in a finance, strategy or corporate development team environment.
• Experience building multi tenant or multi entity systems where each entity’s data stays separate.
• Cloud and deployment experience (AWS, Cloudflare, Nginx, CI/CD pipelines).
• Python or Node for scripting and data manipulation.