Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Cloud Platform, Minnetonka, MN (Onsite)

About the role

We are seeking a highly technical and hands-on Lead Software Engineer to drive the design, development, modernization, and operational excellence of large-scale cloud-native platforms. This role will provide technical leadership across application architecture, microservices, cloud infrastructure, integrations, DevOps, observability, resiliency, and security. The ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers while actively contributing to architecture decisions, software development, cloud deployments, production support, and platform modernization initiatives.

Location: Minnetonka, MN (Onsite). Optum | Minnesota (MN)

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Technical Leadership: Define and evolve enterprise-scale cloud and application architectures. Establish architecture standards, design patterns, security controls, and development best practices. Drive high-availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency strategies. Review solution designs and perform architecture governance.
• Full Stack Application Development: Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable web applications. Build modern responsive front-end applications. Develop RESTful and event-driven APIs. Ensure performance optimization, caching, security, and application reliability.
• Cloud & Platform Engineering: Design and implement cloud-native solutions in Microsoft Azure. Lead containerization initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS). Implement cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Manage cloud networking, traffic routing, CDN integration, API gateways, and security controls.
• Microservices Engineering: Design and develop distributed microservices. Implement reactive programming patterns. Build resilient services using Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, Node.js, circuit breakers, caching, asynchronous processing, and API Gateway patterns.
• DevOps & Automation: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines. Automate testing, deployments, monitoring, and operational processes. Implement blue-green and zero-downtime deployment strategies. Drive engineering productivity and release automation.
• Reliability Engineering & Operations: Lead production support and incident response. Implement observability solutions including logging, monitoring, health checks, alerting, and distributed tracing. Perform root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes.
• Data & Integration Engineering: Build scalable integrations with internal and external platforms. Design solutions utilizing PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, MySQL, Redis, event streaming, and REST APIs. Drive API governance and integration security.
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor software engineers. Conduct code reviews and design reviews. Establish engineering standards and quality metrics. Collaborate with product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams or major platform initiatives.
• Experience developing and operating mission-critical customer-facing applications.
• Experience supporting large-scale digital platforms with high transaction volumes.

Skills

• Programming Languages: Java, Node.js, JavaScript / TypeScript, SQL
• Front-End Technologies: Angular, React, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, SPA Architecture
• Backend Technologies: Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring WebFlux, REST Services, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Reactive Programming
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure App Services, Azure API Management, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure CDN, Azure Redis, Azure AI Services
• Database Technologies: Azure PostgreSQL, NoSQL DB, MySQL, Redis Cache
• DevOps: Git, Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Automated Testing
• Observability: Application Monitoring, Distributed Tracing, Log Analytics, Performance Tuning, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering practices, production operations, resiliency, observability, incident management, performance, and continuous improvement.