Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PESI is an organization dedicated to providing life-changing education for professionals globally. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to manage and support their development team while also contributing hands-on to software development and technical delivery.
Responsibilities
- Serve as one of the people managers for the development team — handling day-to-day coaching, feedback, and performance conversations
- Coordinate PTO, capacity, and scheduling to ensure the team is appropriately staffed and workloads are balanced
- Foster a positive, respectful, and energized team culture where engineers feel supported and empowered
- Run 1:1s consistently and create a safe space for engineers to raise blockers, ideas, or concerns
- Lead onboarding for new team members, ensuring they ramp quickly and understand SOPs, team norms, tools, and expectations
- Contribute directly to development work as an active member of the team — writing code, reviewing pull requests, and participating in technical problem-solving
- Apply a mixture of proven and emerging technologies, including C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, React, and TypeScript
- Architect and build new, modern, cloud- and web-based systems that help shape the future of our business — from initial requirements gathering through deployment
- Actively manage work assignment and task coordination across the dev team to prevent duplication, collision, or competing priorities
- Partner closely with Product Owners, SMEs, and business experts to understand priority order and ensure the team’s work reflects agreed-upon goals
- Facilitate and/or participate in various ceremonies including standups, planning, backlog refinements, and various ad hoc meetings in support of the Development Manager
- Track and communicate progress on development work, surfacing risks or blockers early and keeping stakeholders informed
- Work with project managers and IT leadership to drive software projects from initiation to delivery
- Ensure architecture decisions, design patterns, and technical direction set by IT leadership are clearly understood and applied by the team
- Translate technical complexity into clear guidance that engineers can act on
- Promote best practices, coding standards, and workflows that drive consistency and quality across the codebase
- Keep the team engaged and informed on the technology roadmap and how their work fits into the bigger picture
- Identify and cultivate subject matter expertise within the team, encouraging engineers to develop deep knowledge in key areas
- Field technical questions from team members and connect them with the right resources, peers, or documentation
- Mentor developers at all levels, supporting their career growth and helping them get outside their comfort zone
- Stay in touch with emerging technology trends and share relevant learnings with the team
- Build a culture of continuous learning, curiosity, and collaborative problem-solving
Skills
- 3–5+ years of experience in a technical leadership, team lead, or engineering management role
- A genuine passion for mentoring engineers and helping them grow
- Experience managing team capacity, PTO coordination, and workload balancing
- A track record of building positive, high-trust team cultures
- Experience facilitating agile ceremonies or coordinating iterative development workflows
- Clear, direct communication skills — written and verbal, technical and non-technical
- Ability to translate between business priorities and engineering work
- Proactive approach to identifying blockers, risks, and misalignments before they become problems
- A collaborative, organized mindset for managing across teams and stakeholders
- Comfort working in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities
- A background in adaptive, feedback-driven development even if not in formal Agile frameworks
- A love of continuous improvement and collaborative problem-solving
- Experience in marketing, business development, product ownership or business ownership
- A strong understanding of how technology drives business results
Benefits
- Flexible in-office, hybrid, or fully remote and this role does not require regular travel.
- Generous benefits package
- Incentive plan
- 401(k) with above-market match that immediately vests
- Professional development opportunities and tuition assistance
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