[Hiring] Technical Lead @Pluribus Digital

Role Description

Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Technical Lead to drive the modernization of legacy enterprise applications supporting the TTB program.

In this role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership and guide a small, cross-functional team as we transform legacy systems into a modern, cloud-ready, microservices-based platform.

• Serve as the technical lead for modernizing legacy enterprise applications into a scalable, cloud-ready architecture.
• Define technical direction, architecture standards, and engineering best practices for the team.
• Lead design sessions and architecture reviews; document technical decisions and solutions.
• Guide decomposition of monolithic systems into well-scoped, maintainable microservices.
• Design and implement backend services and RESTful APIs using modern frameworks and patterns.
• Provide technical leadership for frontend development and ensure clean API contracts.
• Lead secure authentication and authorization approaches in partnership with security stakeholders.
• Promote CI/CD automation, infrastructure-aware design, and production readiness (logging, monitoring, resiliency).
• Balance technical debt reduction with delivery timelines and operational risk.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and day-to-day guidance.
• Partner closely with product, operations, and program stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Identify risks early and recommend mitigation strategies to keep delivery on track.

Qualifications

• Public Trust Clearance
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong mission alignment.
• Strong expertise in modern backend development (e.g., Java and enterprise application frameworks).
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and refactoring complex codebases.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and integration patterns.
• Solid experience with relational databases and data migration concepts.
• Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks and UI patterns.
• Experience implementing secure authentication and authorization (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, RBAC).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and application observability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in legacy environments.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in Agile or iterative delivery environments.
• Comfort operating in regulated, security-conscious environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus Points

• Experience modernizing systems in government or regulated environments.
• Exposure to cloud-native or containerized platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with event-driven or asynchronous architectures.
• Experience documenting architectures using industry-standard models.
• Background working on large, enterprise-scale or mission-critical systems.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range from $155,000 to $165,000 depending on experience.
• Opportunity to earn annual bonus.
• Medical/dental/vision benefits.
• PTO.
• Company paid life insurance.
• Generous 401k match program.