Remote Lead Platform Developer

Synergy Business Innovation & Solutions is a premier implementer of cutting-edge software solutions. Synergy brings the experience and expertise necessary to deliver capability that provides tangible ROI to our customers. Synergy’s core areas of expertise are in the fields of Digital Transformation, Cloud Solutions, SaaS and Low-Code/No-Code solutions, Emerging Technologies, Data analytics and Visualization, Information Assurance, and Business Process Re-Engineering. Synergy offers its employees a generous portfolio of core and voluntary benefits including: group medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance; 401(k) with immediately vested company match; PTO/Sick Leave, 11 paid federal holidays, parental leave; tuition and training reimbursement; a referral bonus program; In fact, growth is such a big deal to us that you will have dedicated career coaches available for every employee, company-funded certification opportunities, education reimbursement, and a general open-door policy so that you have support when you need it. Our team is eager to learn, fast-paced, and quality-driven—if that sounds like you, Synergy has a position for you This position is designated as work-from-home. We’re looking for a Lead Platform Developer to own the architecture, scalability, and reliability of our core platform. You’ll lead a small team of engineers, define platform standards and patterns, and build highly available services and tooling that accelerate product teams. Own the platform architecture: Design and evolve cloud-native, multi-tenant, secure platform components (APIs, services, eventing, data pipelines, shared libraries). Build platform capabilities: Authentication/authorization, service discovery, configuration, observability, feature flags, rollout/rollback tooling, and developer experience (DX) pipelines. Implement SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and chaos/resiliency testing; drive performance benchmarking and capacity planning. Champion secure coding, secrets management, dependency hygiene, and compliance needs (e.g., Cloud & infra automation: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, environment strategy, container orchestration, ephemeral environments. Data platform collaboration: Partner with data teams on streaming (e.g., Kafka), warehousing, schema governance, and data contracts. buy, set platform roadmaps, deprecate legacy systems, and guide modernization. Work closely with product engineering, SRE, security, QA, and architecture to deliver platform capabilities that product teams love. 7–10+ years of software engineering experience, with 2–4+ years in platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems roles referred  ~ Expert in at least one backend language (e.g., C#/.
NET, Java/Kotlin, Go, Node.js, Python). ~ Strong with cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/GitLab CI/Jenkins). ~ Experience leading projects, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams. ~ API design expertise (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), versioning, and contract testing (PACT). ~ OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, policy-as-code (OPA), secrets management (Vault/SM/Key Vault). ~ Data platform familiarity: Performance profiling and cost-optimization at scale. S. citizen Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering degree; In accordance with DOD Cyber Workforce Qualifications Matrices Management, Security+ is required for candidates that do not possess a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering degree; Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs located at identifies accredited postsecondary institutions and programs that are within the U.
Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that directly relates to the required area of expertise. knowledge, training, skills and abilities; and alignment with market data, law, and other business and organizational needs. As required by local law, the posted pay range represents the lowest to the highest pay that Synergy believes in good faith it might pay for this particular job, depending on the circumstances. knowledge, training, skills and abilities; and alignment with market data, law, and other business and organizational needs. As required by local law, the posted pay range represents the lowest to the highest pay that Synergy believes in good faith it might pay for this particular job, depending on the circumstances. The physical efforts needed to perform the essential duties of this job 90% of the time are repetitive motions, grasping, holding, and finger dexterity of the hands, reading, writing, eye-hand coordination, color distinction, and full visual abilities, hearing, talking, sitting