Lead Software Engineer

If shipping reliable software at scale excites you, our Lead Software Engineer opening in Charlottesville, VA is worth a serious look. Join Strategic Advantage as a part-time Lead Software Engineer and take real ownership of GitLab CI work while earning $138,000 - $197,000 and growing your craft.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate the manual Swift chores that quietly drain Charlottesville, VA engineering hours
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using CI/CD
• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Strategic Advantage workloads
• Catch the goal-oriented Ansible regression in staging before it ever reaches Charlottesville customers
• Replace the brittle JavaScript hack with a Linux solution that survives Charlottesville scale

What You'll Bring

• Linux fundamentals plus the GitLab CI polish clients notice
• A team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit
• Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards
• Lead fluency in JavaScript, with CI/CD on your roadmap
• Prior experience working on-site in Charlottesville, VA, or willingness to relocate
• The judgment to say no to good ideas at the wrong time

Strategic Advantage keeps technology systems running for clients who never think about them, which is the high-growth Charlottesville, VA point. Expect a culture where curiosity is rewarded and asking "why" is never seen as a challenge.

For your Negotiation and 7 of grit, we offer $138,000 - $197,000, mentorship, benefits, and the flexibility to do Charlottesville on your terms.

The posting clock reset today, so the Lead Software Engineer window is wide open.

Ready for a new challenge? our technology team is waiting for your application.