Software Engineer Team Leader (Remote)

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Software Engineer Team Leader (Remote) in Birmingham, AL. Summary: Our client is seeking multiple Software Engineer Team Leads to support a major security remediation initiative. This role combines technical leadership, mentoring, project coordination, and hands-on software engineering. The ideal candidate is a senior .NET engineer with a cybersecurity mindset who understands application vulnerabilities, development processes, CI/CD pipelines, and remediation efforts-and can help drive issues through resolution. This position is approximately 75% technical leadership, mentoring, organization, and project guidance and 25% hands-on engineering. Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate technical work across multiple development teams
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction, guidance, and support
• Help organize priorities, workstreams, dependencies, and project execution
• Investigate application and source-code vulnerabilities and help drive remediation through completion
• Understand software development practices, CI/CD pipelines, application troubleshooting, and security concerns
• Partner with technology and product teams to communicate priorities, issues, dependencies, and progress
• Provide hands-on technical support and development when needed
• Help troubleshoot application and deployment issues across on-premises and cloud environments
• Support security hardening and remediation efforts across customer-facing digital applications
• Serve as a technical liaison between engineering teams and project/product stakeholders

Technology Environment:

* C#/.NET 10

• SQL Server
• React
• Kubernetes
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Harness
• Git
• CI/CD pipelines
• On-premises and cloud environments
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with C# and .NET
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, or project/workstream guidance
• Experience working across multiple teams and coordinating technical work
• Strong understanding of software development and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to troubleshoot applications and understand security vulnerabilities and remediation
• Ability to balance technical leadership with hands-on engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with application security, cybersecurity, vulnerability remediation, or security hardening
• Stronger hands-on experience with Harness, OpenShift, and Kubernetes
• Experience with React
• Experience supporting on-premises/cloud hybrid environments
• Experience in banking, financial services, or other highly regulated environments

Ideal Candidate: The strongest candidate will be a senior .NET engineer who has moved into a technical lead role and brings cybersecurity experience or a strong understanding of application security. They should be comfortable leading people and organizing work while still being capable of jumping into the code, troubleshooting deployments, and helping solve technical problems.