Lead Software Development Engineer

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or test architecture.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, or a comparable language.
• Experience designing maintainable automation frameworks or internal engineering platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, or similar browser automation technologies.
• Strong experience with API, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or another CI/CD platform.
• Practical knowledge of Git, pull requests, code reviews, build systems, and deployment workflows.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud services, and modern application architectures.
• Knowledge of observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and failure diagnostics.
• Hands-on experience using Claude Code/Codex or comparable AI coding assistants for substantive engineering work.
• Practical understanding of MCP, tool calling, and agentic application development.
• Ability to evaluate and govern AI-generated code and autonomous workflows.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, and mentoring skills.

• Experience building shared engineering platforms or developer-productivity tools.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Datadog, Grafana, or Splunk.
• Knowledge of performance, security, accessibility, resiliency, and production validation.
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, AI evaluation, or multi-agent systems.
• Experience modernizing teams that rely heavily on manual testing or tool-specific automation. What Success Looks Like
• Product teams adopt common engineering capabilities instead of creating separate automation frameworks.
• CI/CD feedback becomes faster, more reliable, and more actionable.
• Test flakiness, duplicated effort, and automation maintenance costs are reduced.
• AI-assisted development produces measurable improvements in engineering productivity and defect detection.
• Agentic solutions operate with appropriate security, evaluation, governance, and human oversight.
• Manual testers develop stronger programming, automation, DevOps, and AI-engineering skills. The strongest candidate will think like a software engineer and platform builder who specializes in quality. They should be able to demonstrate systems they have designed and built—not only tools they have used.

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