Transunion

Overview

As a Lead Developer, you will provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise across complex initiatives, ensuring the delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure software solutions. You will own technical design, development, solution quality, and delivery outcomes while mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices across the team.

About Transunion

TransUnion is a global information and insights company with over 12,000 associates operating in more than 30 countries. We make trust possible by ensuring each person is reliably represented in the marketplace.

Requirements & Eligibility

• 8-12+ years of professional software development experience, including leading technical delivery of enterprise-scale applications and complex software initiatives in Agile environments.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum/Kanban), system architecture, and distributed systems design.
• Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end feature delivery, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing technical dependencies, and driving engineering execution.
• Experience implementing secure software development practices, performance optimization techniques, and operational support processes for business-critical applications.
• Proven ability to mentor engineering teams, provide technical leadership, facilitate architecture discussions, and influence engineering best practices across teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent industry experience with demonstrated technical leadership will also be considered.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of backend and full-stack applications using modern frameworks, cloud-native technologies, and microservices architecture.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable solution designs, architecture diagrams, and implementation plans that align with enterprise standards.
• Provide hands-on development leadership through coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and technical guidance throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Drive feature ownership from estimation through deployment, ensuring timely delivery, proactive risk mitigation, and minimal dependency on project oversight.
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices related to security, code quality, vulnerability management, automated testing, and maintainability.
• Oversee branch management, code integration, release readiness, and merge activities to ensure seamless delivery across multiple initiatives and development streams.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Architects, QA teams, and DevOps engineers to refine requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure successful product delivery.
• Support quality assurance efforts by validating functionality, improving test coverage, and ensuring production readiness when required.