Lead Senior Software Engineer

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Serve as the primary technical lead for a 3-5 person engineering team
Author Architecture Decision Records and set coding standards
Conduct peer code reviews and establish quality gates
Design and build integration layers and versioned API client contracts
Decouple consumer pipelines from upstream schema evolution
Write production code across a mixed Python and Java codebase
Build and optimize scalable event-driven processing pipelines
Manage infrastructure via Terraform
Maintain and modernize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and SonarQube
Implement and manage Content-Addressable Storage architectures
Develop and maintain search indexing for content discovery and metadata querying
Partner with government Product Owners in an Agile/SCRUM environment
Lead story-point estimation, sprint planning, and backlog grooming

Minimum 5 years of experience in information system design and complex software development
Production application development experience using Python and Django
Application development experience in Java
Hands-on experience with AWS including ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, SNS, and SQS
Hands-on experience with Terraform
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and SonarQube
Experience with Content-Addressable Storage architectures
Production experience with Solr or Elasticsearch
Production experience with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
Experience designing microservices architectures with versioned API client contracts
Experience with Agile/SCRUM in a federal delivery environment
Ability to support core business hours 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM ET
Ability to complete Library of Congress IT security training and NDA

Prior delivery on Library of Congress contracts under Library SDLC standards
Experience with digital preservation concepts and standards like OAIS, PREMIS, METS
Experience building or operating pipelines for malware scanning, fixity validation, or format characterization
Experience with TypeScript, ReactJS, or Angular
Experience modernizing or migrating pipeline tooling

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