Lead Full Stack Engineer - Pittsburgh - Eliassen Group

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Lead Full Stack Engineer

Pittsburgh, PA

Type: Contract

Category: Development

Industry: Financial Services

Reference ID: JN

Date Posted: 02/04/2026

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Hybrid in Pittsburgh, PA

We are seeking an engineering leader to own the end-to-end development and maintenance of critical applications that power BNY's businesses. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with delivery execution, platform resiliency, team development, and stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who thrives in complex, regulated environments and can drive modern engineering practices to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable software.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $70 - $75.50 / hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end software delivery: requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-release support across multiple applications and services
• Own platform resiliency: vulnerability management, compliance to enterprise resiliency initiatives, root-cause analysis, problem management, and continuous service improvement
• Modernize and maintain applications: reduce technical debt, improve code coverage, manage dependency hygiene, and execute structured refactoring plans
• Champion secure SDLC: ensure code quality, security scanning/remediation, secure configurations, and compliance in partnership with security and risk teams
• Drive DevOps excellence: automate CI/CD pipelines, environment provisioning, and release management with robust rollback strategies
• Architect for scale and resilience: design modular architectures, APIs/microservices, caching strategies, data integrations, and performance tuning
• Manage stakeholder relationships: collaborate with product owners, operations, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partner teams to prioritize and deliver outcomes
• Mentor and grow engineers: provide technical guidance, code reviews, career coaching, and cultivate a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture
• Govern change and risk: lead change advisory processes, manage regulatory/controls expectations, and maintain audit-ready documentation and evidence

Experience Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with significant responsibility for production systems
• Proven experience owning both build (development) and run (maintenance/operations) for business-critical applications
• Strong background in full-stack engineering (e.g., Java, , Python; modern front-end frameworks such as Angular)
• Experience with API design, microservices, event-driven architectures, data integration, and messaging (e.g., Kafka, MQ)
• Hands-on with cloud platforms and containerization (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker), or private cloud equivalents
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling, testing strategies (unit, integration, performance), observability (logs, metrics, traces), and feature flagging
• Solid understanding of application security, secrets management, IAM, and vulnerability management
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( , inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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