# Lead Software Engineer

POSITION DESCRIPTION McGough is establishing an internal software engineering capability to complement our extensive portfolio of SaaS and enterprise applications. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer - Technical Lead to serve as a foundational technical leader in this new function. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Enterprise Applications, this position serves as the hands-on technical lead for McGough’s internal software engineering team. This role provides technical direction, architecture leadership, code review, mentorship, and hands-on software engineering skills but does not initially have direct reports or formal people management responsibilities. This is a highly influential technical role. The successful candidate will help establish engineering standards, development practices, architecture patterns, technology choices, DevOps practices, and the technical foundation for a growing internal engineering team. Over time, this role has the potential to evolve into an engineering management position as the McGough engineering organization expands. What Your Work Could Look Like A team may see an opportunity to replace a manual workflow with custom software. You would work

- **Id**: 4165406
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mcgough-lead-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Roseville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T13:21:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T13:21:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8636
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity, Hybrid work, Insurance coverage, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property Development, Facilities Management, Construction

## Company

- **Id**: 2002605
- **Name**: McGough
- **Domain**: mcgough.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mcgough>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 17
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 143000
- **Max**: 173000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 173000

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T13:21:11Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 17
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T14:22:06Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 173000
- **Is top pay**: no

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