Lead Engineer Software

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own We have a flexible work environment and fluid career paths We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility We also recognize the importance of purpose well-being and work-life balance Within Empower and our communities we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom Empower Yourself Empower s Scheduling team powers the platform that welcomes new prospects transitions them into valued clients and sustains ongoing advisor relationships through well-timed calls and meetings As a Lead Software Engineer you ll own a critical sub-domain of our scheduling platform guide a cross-functional squad and make forward-looking architectural decisions You ll blend deep hands-on coding with technical leadership helping modernize legacy code harden AWS infrastructure and set engineering practices that other teams emulate Key Responsibilities Own the design evolution and quality of a set of mission-critical microservices that orchestrate scheduling workflows Lead technical discovery and design write and socialize ADRs run design reviews and align decisions across teams Champion clean code and definition of done ensure high coverage and reliable CI CD gates Architect cloud-native solutions on AWS Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB SQS FIFO IAM and define infrastructure as code in Terraform Raise reliability through observability performance engineering secure PII-free logging and incident postmortems Mentor and level-up engineers via pairing sessions roadmap shaping documentation and healthy challenge of the status quo Collaborate with Product SRE Data and InfoSec to translate ambiguous requirements into secure scalable APIs and event flows Coordinate cross-team dependencies and drive incremental modernization from legacy to event-driven architectures Qualifications Experience 8-10 years of backend engineering including 1-3 years leading projects or a squad to deliver complex distributed systems at scale Leadership behavior Track record of accountability and follow-through able to influence across teams and drive adoption of best practices by example Java expertise Mastery of Java Spring Boot including concurrency resilience patterns profiling and robust testing AWS proficiency Hands-on depth with DynamoDB Lambda API Gateway SQS FIFO and IAM roles policies Infrastructure as code Strong experience with Terraform promotes repeatable auditable environments Containers orchestration Advanced Dockerfile skills working knowledge of Kubernetes tuning and operations CI CD DevSecOps Designed pipelines Jenkins or GitLab CI integrating functional tests static analysis vulnerability scanning and performance testing Communication Clear concise technical writing and the ability to align stakeholders through docs and diagrams Nice-to-haves Led modernization efforts from monoliths to event-driven streaming architectures Advanced Kubernetes operators service meshes Background in financial services or other regulated industries Experience with Microsoft Graph API Microsoft Bookings Microsoft RBAC and Salesforce integration We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity All individuals regardless of personal characteristics are encouraged to apply All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color national origin ancestry sex sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression marital status pregnancy religion physical or mental disability military or veteran status genetic information or any other status protected by applicable state or local law