Lead Software Engineer - NBA

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Software Engineer - NBA based in the United States.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for a critical orchestration platform that manages complex, long-running digital member journeys.
You will own the systems that move decisions from generation through activation, delivery, acknowledgment, and reconciliation at enterprise scale.
Working primarily with Node.js, TypeScript, Temporal, Kafka, and cloud-native technologies, you will solve challenging distributed-systems problems.
The role combines architecture, software development, reliability engineering, and leadership of a small engineering pod.
You will shape technical direction while ensuring systems are durable, observable, secure, and resilient under highly asynchronous workloads.
You will collaborate across engineering and platform teams to manage dependencies, integrations, risks, and operational outcomes.
This remote opportunity offers the chance to make a meaningful impact within a complex technology environment while remaining deeply involved in the code.

• Lead end-to-end pod delivery: Own planning, execution, quality, technical outcomes, and timely delivery for the orchestration engineering pod.
• Design workflow orchestration: Build durable, long-running workflows using Temporal and Node.js/TypeScript to manage member action lifecycles, state transitions, scheduling, activation, and delivery outcomes.
• Own action delivery architecture: Manage the complete delivery pipeline from decision publication through activation, acknowledgment, and state reconciliation, including Transactional Outbox patterns, idempotency, retries, backoff strategies, dead-letter queues, and receipt processing.
• Develop activation integrations: Build and maintain integrations with activation and engagement platforms and Kafka-based downstream systems while defining reliable delivery contracts and receipt-ingestion patterns.
• Remain hands-on technically: Write production code across Temporal workflows and activities, Node.js services, Kafka producers and consumers, outbox processors, and integration services.
• Drive architectural decisions: Establish approaches for workflow and state-machine design, compensation strategies, topic structures, schema evolution, API contracts, and delivery guarantees.
• Engineer for distributed-systems reliability: Build for correctness in asynchronous environments through durable state management, deduplication, idempotent processing, safe retries, and graceful failure recovery.
• Strengthen observability and operations: Implement monitoring, tracing, alerting, and operational visibility across workflows, event publication, activation, and delivery acknowledgment.
• Lead and mentor the team: Manage and support engineers and contractors, conduct code reviews, maintain engineering standards, and remove delivery blockers.
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies: Partner with decisioning, platform, activation, and other technology teams to identify integration risks, dependencies, and operational concerns early.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a relevant technical field.
• Engineering experience: 6+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including 1–2+ years in a technical leadership or senior lead capacity.
• Backend development: Strong production experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Workflow orchestration: Hands-on experience with durable workflow platforms; Temporal is strongly preferred, with comparable technologies such as Cadence, AWS Step Functions, or Airflow also relevant.
• Distributed systems: Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, failure recovery, and durable state management.
• Kafka: Experience designing and implementing production-grade Kafka producer and consumer patterns.
• Event delivery: Experience with Transactional Outbox architectures, event-driven integrations, or comparable reliable messaging patterns.
• Technical leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead a small engineering pod and take ownership of technical delivery and outcomes.
• Cloud infrastructure: Experience operating cloud-native applications on Azure or comparable infrastructure using Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Communication: Ability to clearly communicate architecture, delivery progress, operational risks, dependencies, and technical trade-offs to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Preferred technical depth: Experience with Temporal at scale, including workflow versioning and long-running workflow operations, as well as deep knowledge of delivery acknowledgments, dead-letter queues, receipt reconciliation, and exactly-once business-processing semantics.
• Additional preferred experience: Familiarity with Adobe Experience Platform or similar engagement platforms, Kafka ecosystem tooling, event schema governance, Helm, Terraform, Kubernetes, React/TypeScript, Java services, and decision-intelligence systems.
• Industry knowledge: Experience in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated environment involving sensitive information, auditability, and compliance is advantageous.
• Work authorization and environment: Candidates should be able to work effectively from home with reliable internet access and a dedicated workspace. Occasional travel for training, meetings, or conferences may be required.

Benefits

• Base salary: $129,300–$177,800 per year, depending on location, qualifications, experience, education, certifications, and other job-related factors.
• Performance incentive: Eligibility for a bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.
• Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement: 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off: Paid time off, company and personal holidays, and paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Income protection: Short-term and long-term disability coverage and life insurance.
• Work flexibility: Remote work opportunity with a typical Monday–Friday schedule of 40 hours per week, with some flexibility based on business needs.
• Home-office requirements: Employees working remotely must have internet service supporting at least 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speeds and a dedicated, interruption-free workspace.
• Additional benefits: Access to a broader range of employee well-being and support programs.
• Travel: Occasional travel may be required for training, meetings, or conferences.

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

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