Lead Software Engineer

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🇱🇻 Latvia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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SGS

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1878

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage

SGS is the world's leading Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) company, providing a comprehensive range of services designed to assure quality and integrity across various sectors. SGS is focused on sustainability, offering climate action services and an all-encompassing ESG portfolio under its IMPACT NOW suite. The company has ambitious targets for growth by 2027, driven by its strategy to address global megatrends. SGS operates globally, providing business assurance, connectivity and products, digital trust, health and nutrition, and solutions for industries and the environment.

📋 Description

• Design, build and operate accessible web applications, backend services, APIs, integrations and data-access components • Guide architecture decisions and protect the long-term coherence, security, reliability, observability and maintainability of squad solutions • Accept user stories and story-point estimates, facilitate delivery decisions, remove impediments and coordinate dependencies • Ensure delivered work meets acceptance criteria, engineering standards and the agreed Definition of Done • Establish API and service contracts, versioning, integration tests and dependency ownership across domain boundaries • Lead code and design reviews, improve automated testing, and promote secure development and pragmatic documentation • Partner with DevSecOps to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, monitoring, secrets, identity and operational readiness • Contribute to squad OKRs and quarterly reviews covering product value, delivery health and quality • Use governed AI-assisted software engineering practices to improve development speed, code quality and delivery consistency • Work closely with Business Analysts, developers, Quality Assurance, DevSecOps and business stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership of products or delivery teams • Strong full-stack capability, with depth in modern frontend development and backend service or API development • Practical experience designing and operating cloud-based, distributed applications • Strong understanding of architecture, domain boundaries, API design, data integrity, security and observability • Experience with automated unit, integration and end-to-end testing and with CI/CD delivery practices • Experience working in Agile product teams and translating business needs into implementable technical solutions • Ability to make pragmatic trade-offs, communicate decisions clearly and lead through influence • Professional fluency in English and confidence working with internationally distributed colleagues • Preferred: Experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native deployment patterns • Preferred: Experience with TypeScript, VueJS, Node.js, .NET, SQL, REST and/or GraphQL, or comparable modern technologies • Preferred: Experience with infrastructure as code, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, containers and application monitoring • Preferred: Knowledge of B2B SaaS, sustainability, supply chains, chemical data, assessment or compliance platforms • Preferred: Experience using governed AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Continuous learning and professional development opportunities • Open, supportive culture built on teamwork, trust and accountability • Work with a globally recognized, stable organization • Contribute to digital products used across international supply chains and regulatory contexts