Lead Software Engineer

Description

The Tyler Alabama State Enterprise team is seeking a full-time Lead Software Engineer to complement our team in Montgomery, Alabama.

Tyler Alabama helps Alabama government entities Web-enable their information services. Our electronic government solutions use technology to increase efficiency and reduce costs for governments and their constituents.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated candidate who thrives in a fast-paced environment to join our team as a lead software engineer. This position will be responsible for designing, implementing, and modernizing AWS-based infrastructure and cloud-native systems.

This role combines deep technical execution (approximately 70%) with architectural documentation,

mentoring, and cross-team influence (approximately 30%). The individual will play a key role in

accelerating cloud migration efforts, raising CI/CD and DevOps maturity, and embedding

observability and security best practices across mission-critical digital services for state government

agencies.

This role has cross-team technical influence and directly impacts system reliability, security posture,

cloud cost management, and modernization velocity. Architectural decisions and implementation

quality will carry significant operational and compliance implications.

The best qualified candidates will have at least 4-5 years of real-world enterprise application development and architecture experience. Strong communication and writing skills are a must have. A strong work ethic, great attitude, and dedication to success are expected. Our team members are self-motivated professionals who enjoy the challenge of creating complex and efficient solutions in a high-pressure, client-services entrepreneurial environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable AWS-based infrastructure supporting public-facing government services and secure internal platforms.
• Lead cloud migration initiatives, modernizing legacy applications into cloud-native architectures using serverless and container-based patterns.
• Build and deploy backend services using Node.js, leveraging AWS serverless services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB) and containerized workloads with Docker and Amazon EKS (Kubernetes).
• Build and standardize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools to enable reliable, automated deployments.
• Embed observability standards including structured logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting into all new systems.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Collaborate with security and compliance stakeholders to ensure infrastructure aligns with
• CJIS, PCI, HIPAA, and other regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues spanning infrastructure and application layers.
• Mentor engineers in cloud-native design principles, DevOps practices, and modern backend development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or comparable experience.
• 4-5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS infrastructure and services experience.
• Strong experience with serverless architecture patterns and AWS managed services.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• Experience developing backend services using Node.js.
• Demonstrated experience designing scalable cloud-native systems.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring frameworks.
• Knowledge of secure coding and cloud security principles.
• Experience working in regulated environments (PCI, CJIS, HIPAA) preferred.
• Strong communication skills and ability to mentor engineers.