Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack Web Development

About The Company

Communify is the leader in unifying the digital communication of market and client data to provide intelligent insights for investors and investment professionals. Founded on decades of maturity in delivering complex market data to some of the largest firms in financial services, Communify’s platform and Knowledge Bases allow excellent experiences - many of which you may use today. Communify’s SaaS-based product suite unifies the communication of market and client data through a library of financial apps, with solutions including Communify Market Apps, Client Apps, Advisor Apps and AI Apps (MIND). Communify’s Knowledge Base of 4000+ unique data feeds and 500M+ page views per day also powers Communify’s advanced AI capabilities for the next generation of communication, automation and management of financial data.

Our software development team is a group of skilled professionals working collaboratively to design, develop and host high-traffic web and mobile applications for financial, brokerage, and media clients worldwide. Using modern frameworks, we create custom digital experiences that align with client brands. Leveraging in-house data feeds and service-tier applications, we deliver agile, collaborative, and world-class solutions.

As individuals, we are a diverse group, coming from varied professional backgrounds and perspectives. While some of us start with financial experience, our larger belief is that new ideas come from learning, research, analytical thinking, questioning, and translating what we know into new contexts.

Job Summary

As a Lead Software Engineer focused on web development, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership while designing, building, and scaling secure, accessible, high-performance digital investing experiences for high-profile clients in the financial industry. You will drive the delivery of modern web applications using front-end frameworks such as React and Vue, service tiers such as C# .NET and Node.js, REST APIs, and diverse SQL backends. You’ll be a primary contributor to architecture and implementation decisions, translate product and client requirements into maintainable solutions, perform design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and raise standards for quality, testing, performance, and observability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and ongoing support of scalable web applications and digital client experiences
• Provide technical leadership for complex initiatives, including making architecture, implementation, and technology decisions from discovery through production support
• Lead technical training and knowledge sharing sessions as well as design reviews and code reviews to ensure quality, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Participate in performance reviews & mentorship of other engineers
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, designers, quality assurance teams, operations teams, clients, and other stakeholders to deliver business value
• Build and maintain modern web applications from end-to-end, including APIs and supporting services using technologies such as React, Vue, Node.js, Lit, .NET, and SQL
• Monitor application performance, steer troubleshooting efforts, and own the resolution of production issues
• Coordinate and lead deployments
• Maintain awareness of industry trends and plan technical debt roadmaps for improvements to engineering processes, tooling, and standards

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of software development experience showcasing technical leadership
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to clearly explain highly technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Exceptional knowledge of object-oriented programming and design, design patterns, SOLID principles, and scalable distributed-system concepts
• Advanced expertise in modern web development, including JavaScript ES6+, HTML5, CSS3, Swagger (OpenAPI), responsive design, browser compatibility, and web accessibility
• Deep experience with one or more modern front-end frameworks, such as React or Vue, with component-based user-interface architecture
• Experience building and integrating web services using C#/.NET Node.js, Express, REST APIs
• Strong understanding of client-side performance, security, authentication, caching, testing, and observability for high-traffic web applications
• Comprehensive experience with modern AI-assisted development tooling, source control, CI/CD, automated testing, and reliable release practices
• Ability and flexible availability to participate in on-call production support

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing front-end platforms, reusable component libraries, design systems, or micro-frontend architectures
• Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS or Azure and with content delivery, caching, or edge services
• Experience with DevOps and observability tools such as Jenkins, Nomad, Consul, Rundeck, Chef, Nexus, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, or Sentry
• Experience with the Atlassian stack, including Jira and Confluence
• Experience in financial services related to Wealth Management, Asset Management, Advised Investing, or Direct Investing

Salary & Benefits

• Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000 annualized
• Eligibility for bonuses
• Paid holidays and unlimited paid time off
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k plan with 100% employer’s match up to 4%

Pay: $120,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• AD&D insurance
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• On-site gym
• Paid holidays
• Paid sick time
• Unlimited paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Broomfield, CO 80021