Lead IT Software Engineer

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Position Summary:

Individual who is dedicated to building exceptional software.

Provides lead responsibility to develop and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products. Develops software and tools in support of design, infrastructure and technology platforms. Lead Software Engineers are primarily responsible for designing highly complex solutions then building and overseeing the execution of those designs.

Role Requirements:

• Design and build highly complex software solutions using agile/XP/TDD.
• Lead a team in programing well-designed, efficient code independently.
• Collaborate with designers, developers, and product owners to build cloud native software solutions targeting PCF, Azure, AWS, mobile iOS/Android, etc.
• Clearly communicate team wide progress and identify blocking processes/patterns that hold a team back.
• Participate in paired programming and code reviews with mentees to expand the team’s collective knowledge and understanding of software engineering.
• Complete independent research to refine best practices and present work to peers.
• Turn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work to complete as part of a product team.
• Coach and mentor software developers.
• Provide technical guidance to leadership so that solutions are built with innovation and sustainability in mind.
• Learn the business drivers of a product and help drive the technical direction of a product to fulfill the desired vision.
• Recommend and implement best practices and innovative solutions to drive digital transformation in the organization.

Lead Software Engineers will typically possess:

• A breadth of experience building software solutions (through a strong mix of independent research/projects and industry expertise).
• Significant familiarity and comfort in using IDEs. Knows short-cuts and frequents operations that speeds up development time.
• Deep and solid understanding of APIs. Have been involved in designing/building/implementing APIs.
• Considered an expert of cloud-native software engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with a several frameworks. Resulting code is concise and easy-to-follow.
• Experience with automation and optimization. Looks for ways to create repeatable patterns that increase the efficiency of the team.
• Experience and ability to manage and optimize databases.
• Understanding of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in any language. Quick to picking up a new language or adopting a more recent version of a language.
• Familiarity and ability to comfortably work with multiple platforms.
• Deep experience turning complex ideas into workable solutions.
• Previous experience collaborating on a cross-functional team.
• Deep understanding of development cycle.
• Ability to debug and avoid future problems by building more robust solutions.
• Ability to look at previous personal or team experience and use this to analyze mistakes/successes, draw conclusions, and design future solutions. Resulting solutions have few bugs and quick remediation times.
• Previous experience translating business needs into valuable solutions for customers.
• Previous experience building solutions with vulnerabilities in mind. Thinks in advance about possible system bottleneck, looks out for vulnerabilities and problems. Remediates these issues as part of design of a new solution.
• Experience acting as a strong instructor for team members.
• Experience building solutions with the larger team in mind. Solutions have the goal of improving software engineering at the team level.
• Experience with teaching and mentoring team members at various levels.
• Previous involvement in the long-term vision of projects and software engineering practices.
• Demonstrated strong soft skills.
• Expertise and ability to rapidly make decisions for the team.
• A mastery of cyber security principles such as authentication, authorization and encryption. Ability to recommend and leverage common security libraries applicable to their language stack and champion secure programming best practices. In depth experience with common attack vectors, such as SQL injection, Denial of Service (DoS), Cross-Site Scripting, etc. and methods to limit exposure. Coaches organization on the prevention and remediation of potential security vulnerabilities.
• In depth experience working with multiple CI/CD stacks. Guides product teams on the setup of CI/CD for new products and coaches organization on DevOps best practices. Leads the evaluation and selection/development of new CI/CD tools and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Develop software platforms and frameworks
• Maintain services, monitor system health, and continually look for improvements
• Scale systems sustainably using continuous deployment and automation
• Research and implement best design principals in order to improve reliability and velocity
• Work in an agile environment and engage in practices such as XP, test driven development
• Works with technical staff to understand problems with software and resolves them.
• Resolves customer complaints with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements from customers
• Collaborate with other software engineers, developers, designers, and product owners
• Determine hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design
• Has system-wide responsibility on complex , multiple, projects. Provides direction to team, is a key contributor, and coaches new team members. Oversees direction on multiple projects

Required/Basic Qualifications:

• Associates degree in Information Technology or Other Related Degree
• 7 years related work experience
• In lieu of Associates degree(s) AND 7 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 9 year(s) related work experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology or Other Related Degree
• Previous Duke Energy experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of programming languages, operating systems and computer networks

• Full-Stack Development Experience

• Familiarity with Angular (or other JavaScript based framework), Java, Python and private and/or public cloud (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Azure, AWS, etc.) environments
• Experience with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Working Conditions:

• Virtual Mobility Classification - Work will be performed from a remote location after the onboarding period. However, virtual employees should live within a reasonable commute to a Duke Energy facility.

• Office Environment

Specific Requirements:

• Associate’s Degree + 7 yrs work experience
• Bachelor’s + 5 yrs work experience
• Master’s + 3 yr work experience

Travel Requirements

5-15%

Relocation Assistance Provided (As Applicable)

No

Represented/Union Position

No

Visa Sponsored Position

No

Posting Expiration Date

Monday, August 18, 2025

All job postings expire at 12:01 AM on the posting expiration date.

Please Note That In Order To Be Considered For This Position, You Must Possess All Of The Basic/Required Qualifications.

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