Lead Software Engineer

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🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

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Varsity Brands

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5001 - 10000 employees

⚽ Sports

🏭 Manufacturing

📚 Education

💰 Private equity on 2025-04

Sports • Manufacturing • Education

Varsity Brands is a company that builds school pride, student engagement and community spirit through two interrelated businesses: BSN SPORTS and Varsity Spirit. BSN SPORTS is described as a leading marketer, manufacturer and distributor of sporting goods, apparel, and equipment. Varsity Spirit is the leading global source for cheer, dance, performing arts and yearbook products, programs and experiences. Varsity Brands partners with elementary, middle and high schools, colleges and other organizations across North America to provide customizable products and programs that support sport and spirit activities.

📋 Description

• Lead architecture and design efforts for complex applications, services, and platform capabilities • Drive technical decision-making across multiple teams and technology domains • Establish scalable, maintainable, and secure architecture patterns • Promote consistency in engineering approaches, frameworks, and development standards • Review and influence major technical designs and implementation strategies • Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and platform strategy • Lead development of reusable platform services and shared engineering capabilities • Drive modernization initiatives supporting cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures • Identify opportunities to simplify systems, eliminate duplication, and improve maintainability • Guide technical debt reduction efforts and platform optimization initiatives • Promote engineering practices that improve reliability, scalability, and operational performance • Establish and promote engineering best practices across development teams • Drive adoption of automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps practices • Improve software quality through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching • Champion performance, security, resiliency, and operational excellence standards • Support continuous improvement of engineering processes and delivery methods • Mentor Software Engineers I, II, and III while helping prepare future Lead Engineers • Provide technical coaching and career guidance to engineers across the organization • Share knowledge through architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical forums • Help establish a culture of learning, collaboration, and engineering excellence • Partner with Product Management, Design, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering teams • Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions • Evaluate tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability • Influence technology roadmaps and engineering priorities • Drive alignment among stakeholders with varying technical and business objectives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline; or equivalent combination of education and experience • 8–12+ years of progressive software engineering experience • Demonstrated experience leading architecture and technical design across multiple systems or teams • Experience building scalable applications, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native solutions • Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Care Benefits • HSA Employer Contribution/ FSA Opportunities • Wellbeing Program • 401(k) plan with company matching • Company paid Life, AD&D, and Short-Term Disability • Generous My Time Off & Paid Holidays • Varsity Brands Ownership Program • Employee Resource Groups • Access to Financial Coaching and member-owned Credit Union • St. Jude Partnership & Volunteer Opportunities • Employee Perks including discounts on personal apparel and equipment!