Lead Vue.js Developer - Tampa, FL 999878

Location: Onsite (5 days per week)
Employment Type: FullTime
Experience Level: Senior / Lead (10-20 years)

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer who is a true technical leader, not simply a senior developer with a lead title. This role requires a handson engineer with deep experience, strong presence, and the ability to own technical outcomes endtoend, including design decisions, code quality, timelines, and delivery.

The ideal candidate is a credible, respected leader who leads by example, codes daily, mentors others, and consistently makes sound technical decisions under pressure-without sacrificing quality.

• Serve as the technical leader for a small, experienced engineering team
• Own technical outcomes including architecture, design quality, delivery timelines, and maintainability
• Drive best practices around design patterns, code structure, performance, and security
• Partner effectively with architects, product partners, QA, and senior stakeholders
• Make thoughtful, accountable technical decisions aligned with business goals

• Write productionquality code daily; this is a primarily handson role
• Balance approximately 80% coding and 20% leadership, adjusting as project needs require
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable solutions across frontend and backend systems
• Review code, guide implementations, and raise overall engineering standards
• Quickly learn and adopt new tools and technologies, including AIenabled development tools

• Mentor and guide developers through pairing, reviews, and architectural discussions
• Provide clear technical direction without micromanaging
• Foster a culture of accountability, quality, and continuous improvement
• Set a high bar for engineering excellence and professionalism

• FrontEnd: Strong JavaScript experience with UI development
• BackEnd: Solid expertise in C# / .NET

• Modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React)
• Cloud platforms (e.g., Azure)
• DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines)
• Security fundamentals and secure coding practices
• Experience adopting AIassisted development tools

• Small, focused team:
  
  
  
  • 3 developers (including this role)
  • 2 QA testers
  • 1 product partner
  • 1 architect
  
  
  
  
• Established, collaborative team with long tenure
• Highownership, highstandards engineering culture
• Fully onsite environment to support close collaboration

• Enterprise and business applications supporting areas such as:
  
  
  
  • Supply chain
  • Inventory
  • Forecasting
  • Replenishment
  
  
  
  
• Deep domain expertise is not required, but experience building business or enterprise applications is strongly preferred

• 10-20 years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven track record as a handson technical lead
• Strong architectural and designpattern expertise
• Ability to see the big picture (technology + business outcomes)
• Calm, thoughtful decisionmaker under pressure
• Leader whom other engineers naturally respect and follow
• Comfortable being accountable for delivery and quality

• Titleonly leads without true leadership experience
• Candidates who rush delivery at the expense of quality
• Recently promoted leads without real ownership history
• Engineers without experience building realworld business applications

• Senior, credible engineer with strong technical judgment
• Handson leader who codes daily and sets the example
• Clear communicator with business awareness
• Proven experience leading complex systems and projects
• Comfortable owning outcomes and driving results in a highexpectation environment