Lead Software Engineer (Full-stack) - Contract at Jobgether
$100–$125/hrfrom the description
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract role for an experienced full-stack engineer to serve as the primary technical architect across multiple client engagements at a consulting firm. Day-to-day work spans designing and building scalable systems across frontend (React, TypeScript), backend (Java, Django), and cloud infrastructure (AWS), while mentoring engineering teams, leading architecture reviews, and participating in client-facing technical discussions. Suits a senior engineer with a decade of experience who is comfortable balancing hands-on coding with team leadership and consulting-style delivery.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,500–15,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The title 'Lead Software Engineer' maps to Senior on the seniority ladder — the role has cross-project technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities but no explicit people-management (hiring/budget) scope that would push it to Staff or Principal.
The degree requirement is stated as 'Bachelor's degree or higher … in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field' with no equivalent-experience escape clause, so it is treated as a hard gate.
Django and Dropwizard are listed as interchangeable examples of the required backend framework depth ('such as Django, Dropwizard, or similar'); Django is used as the primary name with Dropwizard in alternatives.
Terraform and Pulumi are listed as interchangeable IaC options ('such as Terraform or Pulumi'); Terraform is used as the primary name with Pulumi in alternatives.
AWS is the primary cloud platform named; Azure is listed as an 'and/or' alternative. Both appear under the requirements section, so the cloud requirement is a hard gate with Azure as an acceptable substitute.
The individual AWS services (Lambda, ECS, Fargate, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS) are explicitly enumerated under requirements and are each captured as separate hard-gate skills.
Professional services / consulting experience is described as 'strongly preferred' rather than required, so it is omitted from the skills list (no specific technology to capture).
The caller has confirmed this is a fully remote, US-national role; no metro or state is inferred.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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