Lead Software Developer (Remote, US)
Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high‑performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.
At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter.
This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you’re ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI‑ready connectivity, join us today.
The Role
Lumen is seeking a highly skilled Lead Software Developer to join our Enterprise Billing team. In this role, you will be accountable for collaborating with team Architects to help set direction, research new technologies, develop proof of concepts, and establish standards. Our current project involves analyzing applications as part of our move to the cloud, providing innovative solutions, identifying dependencies, and implementing changes to ensure the project's success. This role requires someone who is a self-starter that can research and quickly understand an application, offering solutions, and implement them.
Location
This is a remote position open to candidates based anywhere in the U.S.
The Main Responsibilities
- Partner in an Agile Scrum team environment to be able to design, develop, code, test, debug and support in production new software or significant enhancements to existing software
- Work closely with business partners and technical staff to create technical solutions that meet business and technical requirements
- Champion of the methodology by demonstrating ownership of all aspects of the development lifecycle and inspiring ownership and accountability in others
- Ability to mentor others in the business processes implemented in the team's applications to provide resolution to support problems
- Designs, develops, maintains, and supports new and existing automated test code, frameworks, and infrastructure
- Collaborate with product developers in a fast-moving agile team to define and implement effective and efficient automated tests
- Ability to coach and mentor others in the production of all artifacts
- Reviews peers' designs and code Documents own work to promote transparency and reuse
- Understands a complex distributed system end-to-end
- Build unit tests, debug integration issues, and deploy emergency patches as needed
- Able to influence the work of others to drive medium & large projects to successful completion through effective collaboration, customer interaction, and IT coordination
- Build production-quality enterprise-grade systems that achieve target SLAs for scalability, reliability, and performance on schedule
- Prioritize and handle multiple concurrent projects and efforts
- Accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; making clear, specific commitments to deliver results
What We Look For in a Candidate
- 8+ years of professional experience with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience
- Working knowledge of software development methodologies, standards, and coding best practices
- Experience with various development languages, Web stack including but not limited to: C#, Python, Typescript, SQL, Spark, Scala, Angular, ASP.NET Core/Blazor, HTML, CSS
- Experience with various database/data platform including but not limited to: SQL Server, Oracle, Elastic Search, PostgreSQL, SQLite
- DevSecOps Engineering Experience including but not limited to: Git, GitHub Actions, TFS, Terraform
- Experience with Rest API, Open API Spec, oAuth, SSO, OTEL/DataDog, Cloud messaging/Kafka
- Experience with data-structuring language including but not limited to: JSON, YAM