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Position:
Lead Software Engineer
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Location:
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Grand Rapids, MI
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Job Id:
1269
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# of Openings:
1
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Lead Software Engineer | Must sit in MI, IN, IL, KY, OH, or WI | Full-Time
The Lead Software Engineer provides senior-level technical leadership across a large-scale order management ecosystem. This role acts as a technical anchor within a highly distributed, multi-team environment-driving architecture, engineering excellence, integration strategy, CI/CD modernization, and operational resilience across dozens of repositories and supporting services.
You'll partner closely with Product, Platform, DevOps, SRE, Architecture, and external teams to ensure the OMS platform is scalable, reliable, resilient, and aligned with business needs across fulfillment, preorder, post-order, and marketplace workflows.
Thinking ahead, seeing beyond, and building together.
Vervint is a purpose-driven, global consultancy that is a digital catalyst, empowering people and organizations to thrive in the experience-driven world. Vervint offers cross-functional expertise and guidance that goes beyond great tech - believing technology, thoughtful strategy, and human creativity lead to real progress and transformation. With a human-focused approach, Vervint provides a roadmap for success inherent in design, empathy, and ingenuity. Our commitment to purposeful progress gives us a unique ability to thrive at the intersection of technology, strategy, and experience to create impactful solutions that are more than simply migrating, integrating, or building tech.
With offices in Michigan and Minnesota and employees across the globe, we put people at the heart of everything we do. Our values are part of what makes us different - for our employees, clients, and the communities in which we live and work. At Vervint, our purpose is progress, and we are out to improve lives by keeping humanity at the core of every solution.
What You'll Do:
OMS Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Lead and evolve the end-to-end OMS technical architecture.
- Define and enforce service boundaries, API contracts, event schemas, and system dependencies.
- Drive architectural decision-making through design reviews and ADRs.
- Champion multi-cloud resiliency and active/active patterns.
Distributed Systems & Event-Driven Design
- Architect event-driven workflows using Kafka or equivalent platforms.
- Establish best practices for retries, idempotency, sequencing, and recovery.
- Drive message and event standards across microservices.
Cloud, Infrastructure & Reliability
- Lead cloud modernization using container orchestration and managed services.
- Define strategies for failover, scaling, traffic routing, and resiliency.
- Enable observability with tracing, logging, metrics, and synthetic testing.
CI/CD & Engineering Excellence
- Lead improvements to CI/CD pipelines and build governance.
- Establish standards for versioning, artifacts, and releases.
- Champion zero-downtime deployments.
Integration & Platform Leadership
- Serve as technical lead for OMS integrations with enterprise platforms and vendors.
- Guide feature-flag strategies and controlled rollouts.
- Ensure API consistency and compatibility.
Data & Platform Engineering
- Provide architectural direction for relational and NoSQL databases.
- Lead modernization of catalog, inventory, pricing, and partner data flows.
Testing, Quality & Performance
- Define test strategies across performance, integration, and E2E workflows.
- Improve automation, environment isolation, and test reliability.
- Enforce strong contract discipline.
Leadership & Mentorship
- Mentor engineers and support onboarding.
- Coordinate across Product, Platform, DevOps, and Architecture.
- Drive technical change management.
What You'll Bring:
- Experience as a Lead or Senior Software Engineer in a distributed environment.
- Strong Java / Spring Boot experience; .NET familiarity a plus.
- Deep REST API and event-driven architecture experience.
- Cloud-native and CI/CD expertise.
- Strong understanding of data consistency and system integration.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with large CI/CD or repo migrations.
- Exposure to SRE or reliability practices.
- Domain experience in e-commerce or fulfillment systems.
You Belong. At Vervint, we embrace all facets of identity that make you - you. From race, gender identity, and veteran status to disabilities and more, your lived experiences enrich everyone around you. We know when we create an environment of safety and respect for individuals and their identities, we all do our best work. That is why we celebrate our diversity, foster equity, and champion inclusion within our company, the work we do, and our communities. As we work together, we commit to continuous growth, learning from our mistakes, and expanding on our caring culture to bring our values to life.
Vervint is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veterans status, familial status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status regarding public assistance or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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Vervint
Jan 09, 2026 