Lead Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as Key Personnel and the technical leader within an engineering team.

• Oversee the design and development of the inaugural production content-exchange bridge linking the Library of Congress Enterprise Copyright System with Digital Library Services applications.

• Lead a team of 3–5 engineers.

• Create Architecture Decision Records, establish coding standards, perform peer code reviews, and set quality gates.

• Design, construct, and take ownership of integration layers and versioned API client contracts.

• Separate consumer pipelines from upstream schema changes.

• Write production code across Python/Django and Java codebases.

• Build and enhance event-driven processing pipelines utilizing AWS services.

• Manage infrastructure using Terraform.

• Maintain and upgrade Jenkins and SonarQube CI/CD pipelines.

• Implement and oversee Content-Addressable Storage architectures with fixity verification.

• Develop and maintain search indexing using Solr and/or Elasticsearch.

• Collaborate with government Product Owners and stakeholders in a federal Agile/SCRUM setting.

• Lead story-point estimation, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.

• Mentor engineers and guide technical strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 5 years of practical experience in information system design, complex software development, and application programming on large-scale database management systems.

• Experience in production application development using Python with Django.

• Application development experience in Java within a hybrid Python/Java architecture.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, and SNS/SQS.

• Proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.

• Experience in building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and security scanning tools like SonarQube.

• Familiarity with Content-Addressable Storage architectures, including hash-based addressing, immutable object stores, and fixity verification.

• Production experience with Solr and/or Elasticsearch for content discovery and metadata querying.

• Experience with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript in a production environment.

• Competence in designing microservices architectures featuring versioned API client contracts, backward compatibility, and graceful degradation.

• Practiced Agile/SCRUM within a federal delivery framework, including estimation, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.

• Availability to support core business hours: 8:30 AM–5:30 PM ET, Monday–Friday.

• Capability to complete Library of Congress IT security training and a Non-Disclosure Agreement before system access.

• Preferred: prior experience delivering on Library of Congress contracts adhering to Library SDLC standards.

• Preferred: knowledge of digital preservation concepts and standards, such as OAIS, PREMIS, and METS.

• Preferred: experience with malware scanning, fixity validation, or format characterization pipelines.

• Preferred: familiarity with TypeScript, ReactJS, or Angular.

• Preferred: experience in modernizing or migrating CI/CD pipeline tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible PTO.

• 401(k) plan with employer match.

• Paid parental leave after one year of service.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Remote work culture and flexibility.

• Opportunity to contribute to impactful public-sector digital services.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Veterans and transitioning service members are encouraged to apply.