Lead Product Software Engineer

About the role

As a Lead Product Software Engineer, you will lead a team of developers to deliver high‑quality software solutions while ensuring adherence to architectural guidelines, industry best practices, and secure coding standards. You will collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams, contribute to technical design and implementation, and support the team throughout the development lifecycle. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to drive continuous improvement in both engineering practices and product delivery.

What you’ll do

Leading a team of developers to ensure successful delivery of key projects.

Ensuring adherence to technical and architectural guidelines and standards.

Driving and advocating the use of industry best practices within the team.

Taking a lead in sprint planning and refinement.

Working closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Developers and Quality Engineers.

Acting as the main point of contact for the team.

Coding and Code Reviews.

Technical Designs and Reviews.

Sprint Demos.

Story refinement.

Debugging production issues.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to determine and define intricate design specifications and details.

Leading the design and architecture of innovative software applications that address challenging business requirements.

Developing comprehensive and sophisticated testing routines and procedures, ensuring thorough software testing.

Offering advanced technical support for software maintenance, usage, and issue resolution, supporting other team members and stakeholders.

Identifying and assessing information technology project resource requirements, including personnel and infrastructure.

What you’ll bring

Leadership & Collaboration

Strong collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams on design specifications.

Ability to design and architect innovative software applications.

Experience supervising and mentoring information technology personnel, providing guidance to enhance their skills and productivity.

Ability to document highly technical specifications or requirements clearly.

Expertise in performance optimization to achieve significant improvements in efficiency.

Strong understanding of testing methodologies and the ability to define sophisticated testing procedures.

High-level technical troubleshooting and support capabilities.

Ability to identify and assess project resource needs, including personnel and infrastructure.

Fluency in English is required.

French proficiency is a strong plus.

Must Have – Technical Skills

Experience as a Team/Tech Lead and delivery of projects to production.

NodeJS.

NPM.

RDBMS.

GitHub (repositories, GitHub Actions, branching strategies, etc.).

CI/CD.

Azure Cloud.

Containers.

Unit + Integration Testing.

Industry principles and patterns such as SOLID, Clean Code, etc.

RESTful APIs.

Coding Agents (Copilot, Clause Code, etc.).

Understanding of Agentic systems, LLM basics, Prompting, MCP, etc.

Understanding of Secure Coding principles (e.g., OWASP).

Understanding and experience of OAUTH, OIDC.

Nice to Have

Front End SPA development (React, Angular).

Messaging (e.g., Azure Service Bus).

SignalR.

.Net.

Experience with integrating with Agentic systems or experience developing agents.

Terraform (or other IaC frameworks).

Understanding/Experience of Spec‑Driven Development.

What we offer

You’ll join a dynamic and ambitious team! The role offers variety and autonomy.Wolters Kluwer continuously invests in the growth and skills of its employees and offers ample opportunities for personal development.

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.