Software Engineering Lead

Location: Middleton WI / 100% Remote, USA

We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineering Lead who is passionate about building modern, scalable, and secure web applications. In this role, you’ll mentor and guide a team of talented developers, while driving the technical design, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions.

As a key technical leader, you will shape the architecture, enforce best practices, and collaborate across teams to deliver exceptional products that make a real impact.

What You’ll Get to Do:

Technical Leadership

Lead a team of software engineers to design and build modern web applications using multiple web technologies. Frontend Technologies: React/Angular; Backend Technologies: Object Oriented Programming Java/C# and Python.

Define, document, and enforce coding standards, development processes, and engineering best practices.

Drive solution architecture and play a key role in high-level design discussions.

Ownership: Take accountability for assigned features and software components from clinical/commercial intent through technical design to delivery — translating expected clinical behavior into software requirements, designs, and implementation, and driving them across functions to completion.

Hands-On Development

Contribute directly to coding and implementation of key features and components.

Conduct code reviews to ensure the highest standards of quality, security, and performance.

Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in both development and production environments.

Collaboration & Delivery

Partner with Product Owners, Architects, and QA teams to deliver features on time and with excellence.

Mentor and coach team members, fostering continuous learning and professional growth.

Actively participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release management.

Cloud & DevOps

Leverage Microsoft Azure for application hosting, storage, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring.

Champion DevOps practices, including automated testing, continuous integration, and seamless deployments.

Skills and Experience

Professionals at this level are seasoned experts with strong leadership capabilities and technical depth. Typically, you’ll have 10–12 years of experience and be comfortable collaborating across functions, leading complex projects, and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

10+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership role.

Proven expertise with:

Front-end: React.js (or similar modern JavaScript framework)

Back-end: Java, C#.NET (ASP.NET Core), Python (Flask/Django/FastAPI) (or any object-oriented programming language)

Cloud: Microsoft Azure / AWS  / GCP, Platform services.

Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and microservices.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and Agile methodologies.

Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates).

Familiarity with security best practices, including OAuth, JWT, and Azure AD.

Knowledge of data engineering or machine learning pipelines.

Experience delivering software within a regulated environment (medical device / healthcare, FDA design controls, or equivalent QMS), including design documentation, verification evidence, and requirements traceability

Soft Skills We Value

ownership: Proactively takes accountability and drives work forward without waiting to be assigned — identifies what needs doing, makes the call, and follows through

Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities.

A natural mentor and motivator who fosters a high-performance, collaborative culture.

Clear communicator who can translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language.

Passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and staying ahead of emerging technologies.

Comfortable raising risks, voicing disagreement, and pushing back constructively in cross-functional and senior-stakeholder settings; surfaces problems early rather than when asked