Lead Full Stack Engineer

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We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Full Stack Engineer to drive engineering excellence across front-end, back-end, API, and data layers.
This role is responsible for setting technical direction, ensuring consistent delivery across teams, and aligning engineering solutions with business priorities. The ideal candidate will be a strong technical leader who thrives in complex environments, drives modernization initiatives, and develops high-performing engineering talent.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of our engineering landscape, influence enterprise-scale decisions, and lead transformation initiatives that directly impact customer experience and business growth.

Location : Louisville, KY or Dallas, TX (Work At Home with occasional office visits)

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Strategy
- Lead full stack engineering strategy and execution across UI, APIs, and data platforms
- Define architectural direction and ensure high standards for code quality, scalability, and maintainability
- Select frameworks, languages, and platforms across front-end, back-end, APIs, and data layers
- Approve architectural patterns (monolith vs. microservices, cloud strategy, and integrations)
- Identify opportunities to refactor, modernize, or retire legacy systems

Delivery Execution & Prioritization
- Drive consistent delivery across multiple engineering teams through: - Sprint planning and execution
- Dependency management
- Risk mitigation
- Removal of technical and organizational blockers

- Prioritize feature development, platform investments, and technical debt across teams
- Make trade-offs on scope, timelines, and resource allocation
- Balance short-term business needs with long-term platform health
- Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery that builds stakeholder confidence

Quality, Security & Risk Management
- Define and enforce quality standards including testing, code reviews, and performance benchmarks
- Establish release readiness criteria and approve production deployments
- Guide security, compliance, and data protection strategies
- Mitigate risk and ensure system stability, reliability, and regulatory alignment

Production Support & Incident Leadership
- Serve as the senior escalation point for critical system issues
- Diagnose and resolve complex cross-stack production incidents
- Lead decisions during incidents (rollback, hotfix, or root-cause remediation)
- Direct engineering resources during high-severity events
- Drive long-term solutions to reduce incident frequency and improve system resilience

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence
- Partner with Product, UX, QA, Platform teams, Architects, Directors, and VPs to: - Shape roadmaps and align priorities
- Translate business requirements into technical execution plans
- Refine requirements and reduce ambiguity
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies

- Advocate for clarity and feasibility in requirements, addressing risks early
- Influence strategic direction, technical investments, and delivery expectations
- Communicate risks, trade-offs, and system impacts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Operational Excellence & Investment Decisions
- Drive decisions on investment in automation, tooling, observability, and platform improvements
- Lead initiatives to reduce operational toil and improve developer experience
- Optimize engineering processes to increase efficiency and scalability

Talent Development & Team Leadership
- Mentor and develop tech leads and senior engineers
- Provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and performance guidance
- Identify promotion readiness and address performance gaps
- Influence hiring strategies and succession planning
- Build and sustain high-performing, engaged engineering teams

Strategic Initiatives
- Lead application rationalization efforts, including: - Onboarding to new APIs
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