Lead Software Engineer

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🎸 Tennessee – Remote

🎸 Tennessee – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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i3 Verticals

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1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏛️ Government

📚 Education

SaaS • Government • Education

i3 Verticals is a software and payments company that delivers integrated, cloud-hosted SaaS solutions for public sector markets, including state and local government agencies, K-12 education, transportation, courts (justice), and utilities. The company combines financial management, payment processing, case management, and industry-specific operational software with 24/7 domestic support, implementation services, and a platform of acquired products to streamline public administration and improve efficiency across government and education organizations.

📋 Description

• Contribute to product decisions and influence technical direction across products and solutions • Champion the organization’s technology architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap • Serve as technical lead for one or more products on architectural and development decisions • Establish architectural and development principles, patterns, and decision frameworks • Communicate complex architecture and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective enterprise-scale software solutions • Build integrations supporting data transformation across internal and external systems • Adopt and extend infrastructure-as-code reference implementations • Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and provide implementation guidance • Conduct technical reviews to identify optimization opportunities, technical debt, and modernization priorities • Participate in hands-on development, provide technical guidance, and remove blockers • Drive initiatives improving software maturity, operational excellence, and engineering productivity • Identify automation, standardization, and simplification opportunities • Participate in code reviews and collaborate on system designs and issue resolution • Manage deliverables through the software development life cycle and escalate impediments • Demonstrate incremental changes and evaluate delivery readiness • Collaborate with Product and Quality Engineering teams on planning, refinement, defects, and observations • Build and maintain automated unit and integration tests • Monitor and support software to meet service-level agreements • Research relevant technologies and share insights with the team

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline; or equivalent demonstrated experience • 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or related technical leadership roles • Proven track record architecting and developing large-scale, production-grade software in enterprise environments • Demonstrated experience influencing technical direction, with or without direct authority • History of leading software delivery initiatives from concept through delivery, including product modernization and integration programs • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to navigate ambiguity and diagnose complex issues • Strategic thinking capability and ability to translate business objectives into technical solutions • Ability to mentor and teach others • Ability to drive initiatives independently while collaborating effectively • Understanding of Agile software methodologies, such as Scrum • Expert-level knowledge of software engineering and architecture patterns and Clean architecture principles • Strong knowledge of AWS and/or Azure cloud architecture patterns and services • Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools and practices, including Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates • Strong understanding of secure computing principles, compliance frameworks including SOC2, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA, and infrastructure components • Strong understanding of containerization, including Docker and Kubernetes, serverless architectures, and microservices patterns • Proficiency with DevOps tooling, Git, CI/CD, configuration, observability, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code languages such as Terraform and HCL • Proficiency with containerized and serverless architectures, microservices, and event-driven architecture patterns • Experience building modern, responsive web applications • Proficiency creating and consuming APIs, including REST and SOAP • Preferred: Proficient in .NET development with hands-on C# experience • Preferred: Significant professional experience in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem • Preferred: Hands-on experience with multiple programming languages, such as Python and Go • Preferred: Experience with modern front-end web frameworks, such as Blazor and Angular • Preferred: Experience with AWS • Preferred: Experience with relational and NoSQL database architecture and administration • Preferred: Experience architecting software for AI workloads and understanding Agentic AI architectures • Preferred: Knowledge of responsible AI practices, governance frameworks, and security considerations • Preferred: Knowledge of the Atlassian suite, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket

🏖️ Benefits

• Occasional travel for conferences, strategic planning sessions, and key stakeholder meetings