Lead Software Engineer (Java)

Location: Hybrid role based at the Bloomington, Illinois Corporate or Richardson, Texas CityLine Hub locations; approximately 40% in-office time each month beginning in late 2027.

Salary: $120,000–$135,000 starting annual salary, with potential yearly incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global is a technology-driven insurance company modernizing customer-facing and business-critical payment systems.

What you will do

• Lead by example, mentor and coach engineers, build trust, and foster an inclusive, accountable team environment.
• Partner with engineers, business stakeholders, and technology leaders to deliver reliable, customer-focused solutions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support full-stack web applications, APIs, and integrations with mainframe systems.
• Develop solutions using Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, and modern frontend technologies.
• Support modernization initiatives involving cloud platforms, containers, AI-assisted development tools, and infrastructure automation.
• Troubleshoot complex issues while promoting security, reliability, observability, automated testing, and engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to lead by example, influence others, take ownership, and contribute to team direction.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers through feedback and collaboration.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, conflict-resolution, teamwork, inclusion, and accountability skills.
• Adaptability, sound judgment, and commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Advanced experience developing enterprise applications with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, including PostgreSQL or DB2.
• Experience with AWS, Linux, containers, and enterprise application environments.
• Proficiency with Git-based workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, secure coding, and observability tools.
• Experience supporting business-critical applications, troubleshooting complex issues, and contributing to technical design decisions; familiarity with modernization initiatives, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-assisted development tools.
• Applicants must be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; hirify.global will not sponsor U.S. work authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience with mainframe technologies, particularly integrations with modern web applications.
• Knowledge of billing and payment systems or hirify.global’s technology environment.
• Familiarity with ROSA, Terraform, Python, GitLab CI/CD, or Dynatrace.
• Experience contributing to engineering communities, shared development practices, or design systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with a standard 38:45-hour work week and hybrid office/home work.
• Health, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, and wellbeing programs, with hirify.global paying most of the healthcare premium.
• Training, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, mentoring, and professional development opportunities.
• Paid time off, initially up to 20 days annually, parental leave, paid holidays, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
• Annual raises, bonus eligibility, matching gift and community programs, and a 401(k) with company contributions of up to 7% of salary.