The Lead Application Development Engineer will play a pivotal role in the development and implementation of critical applications.
Foster collaboration among team members, stakeholders, and departments.
Define backend frameworks and engineering standards across applications.
Establish cloud infrastructure strategy (AWS preferred).
Architect for scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
Build systems designed for long-term scalability, not short-term patches.
Lead API architecture and integration design across platforms.
Design and implement a centralized data hub strategy to decouple applications from legacy systems.
Implement monitoring and observability standards (New Relic or similar).

8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience
Experience operating at Principal, Staff Engineer, or equivalent level
Proven experience designing scalable distributed systems
Experience building service-oriented, modular, or microservices-based architectures
Strong understanding of CQRS, event-driven systems, and Hexagonal Architecture principles
Deep experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs
Experience integrating with ERP systems (Exigo, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, etc.)
Experience with complex third-party system integrations at scale
Strong understanding of API gateway design and versioning strategies
Backend development in Node.js / TypeScript (preferred)
PostgreSQL or equivalent relational databases
Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, or similar)
AWS cloud architecture experience
CI/CD pipeline implementation
Strong communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lead IT Application Development Engineer

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