Development Lead – Platform Modernization

Cogency Global is continuously modernizing its technology behind its corporate, legal, and compliance services. We are looking for a development lead who has done this kind of work before: an engineer who has taken a mature, business-critical platform, where years of business rules live deep in its code base, and moved it piece by piece to a modern cloud architecture without ever stopping the business.


You are still one of the strongest hands-on engineers on any team you join. You write production code, take the hardest pull requests, and make architectural calls that still look right two years later. You treat AI-assisted development as a core engineering discipline, and you know how to make a whole team faster and safer with it, not just yourself. Just as importantly, you leave every team better than you found it: engineers who work alongside you become more capable, and leadership gets an honest, well-reasoned read on technical risk and delivery progress. Location is flexible; we care about what you have built and how you lead, not where you sit.

Responsibilites

• Act as the technical anchor of a scrum team: own the design, the breakdown of work, and the quality of what ships, within agreed architecture and decision boundaries, while carrying a meaningful share of the delivery yourself.
• Find the seams in a tightly coupled legacy estate and carve services out incrementally, using strangler, anti-corruption-layer, and parallel-run patterns so business logic moves out of the database and into tested, observable code.
• Shape the API and event contracts other teams build against, making deliberate decisions about synchronous versus asynchronous integration, data ownership, idempotency, and failure handling.
• Design for operation in AWS from day one: infrastructure as code, automated pipelines, telemetry, tested recovery, and security and cost visible to the team that owns each service.
• Set how the team uses AI coding assistants and agents day to day: where they accelerate the work, where they need closer review, and how quality gates keep pace, with every engineer accountable for verifying correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Coach through mentoring, design reviews, and code reviews, helping engineers with deep experience on the existing stack build confidence and capability in AWS, and modern delivery practices.
• Work in partnership with the technology leadership technical direction, standards, and quality for the team.
• Partner with product owners, architects and operations to sequence product delivery work around business risk, not just technical convenience.

Requirements

• 10+ years building and operating production software, including at least 3 years as a hands-on technical lead of a delivery team.
• Has personally led the modernization of a large, database-centric legacy platform to a cloud-native architecture, and can explain in detail what worked, what didn’t, and why.
• Expert in Java or C#, with working fluency in the other; comfortable picking up new languages and frameworks quickly.
  Production experience designing and running services on AWS (for example ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Step Functions, Aurora) using infrastructure as code (CDK or Terraform).
• Experience designing APIs and event-driven integrations.
• Demonstrated skill with AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding workflows (for example Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor), with a clear point of view on using them responsibly across a team.
• Fluency in scrum delivery, CI/CD, automated testing, and short-lived-branch workflows.
• A track record of raising the capability of an existing team

Additional Information

Job Type: Remote, M-F Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.