This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week
Position Summary
The Lead Developer provides day-to-day technical leadership to the development team while remaining actively involved in engineering. The role leads complex development efforts, translates solution designs into high-quality implementations, establishes development standards, performs technical and code reviews, troubleshoots challenging production issues, and mentors developers.
Key Responsibilities
Design and develop enterprise applications and backend services using Python.
Build and maintain web services and application components using Flask and related Python frameworks.
Design, develop, integrate, and support RESTful APIs and applications based on microservices and service-oriented architectures.
Mentor developers across Python, Flask, APIs, microservices, SQL, databases, DevOps, CI/CD, testing, AI-assisted engineering, and troubleshooting.
Lead the design and implementation of complex applications, services, integrations, APIs, and data-driven solutions.
Translate business and architectural requirements into detailed technical designs and implementation approaches.
Provide technical direction to developers throughout design, development, testing, implementation, and production support.
Lead technical-design and code-review sessions and ensure solutions follow established engineering standards.
Develop complex SQL queries, stored procedures, data-access components, and database integrations. Expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database or PostgreSQL.
Review and diagnose query-performance problems and perform SQL performance tuning and optimization for scalability, supportability, and maintainability.
Develop reusable components, frameworks, utilities, and engineering patterns where they can improve consistency and development efficiency.
Troubleshoot end-to-end application performance issues across the API, application, data-access, and database layers.
Use GitLab for source-code management and team development workflows.
Develop, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines supporting application build, testing, validation, and deployment processes.
Integrate automated unit testing, code-quality checks, and applicable security scanning into development workflows.
Demonstrate proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and effectively incorporate them into day-to-day software engineering.
Review and validate AI-generated code and recommendations through appropriate engineering review, testing, security evaluation, and established controls.
Perform peer code reviews and ensure critical changes receive appropriate technical review.
Drive resolution of defects and recurring technical issues through root-cause analysis rather than short-term fixes. Participate in troubleshooting of complex production incidents and drive sustainable corrective actions.
Work collaboratively with Product Owners and Agile team members to assess technical feasibility, complexity, dependencies, and risks.
Education and Experience Required:
Associate’s degree and a minimum of 7 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience or Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years' systems analysis and/or application development work experience. In lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 year’s education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 5 years’ system analysis and/or application development work experience.
Python
Flask
RESTful API design and development
Microservices
Object-oriented and modular application design
Application integration
Automated/unit testing
Debugging and troubleshooting
Microsoft SQL Server/Oracle/PostgreSQL
Advanced SQL
SQL query optimization and performance tuning
Application/database integration
GitLab
CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
Build and deployment automation
Automated testing
Code-quality and security…