Lead Software Engineer

JOIN THE BEST TEAM IN SPORT & SPIRIT At Varsity Brands , we believe every student deserves the opportunity to succeed and every educator wants to make a difference.

It takes a team to make a real impact, and through our two divisions – BSN SPORTS and Varsity Spirit – and our network of 6,000+ employees and independent representatives, we are proud to partner with a wide range of educational institutions and club and professional sports to transform the student journey in SPORT and SPIRIT.

LOCATION: Remote HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT: Varsity Brands is building a modern, unified digital platform that powers the full experience of sport and spirit, connecting product configuration, ordering, fulfillment, manufacturing readiness, customer engagement, and business operations through scalable, API-driven services and shared platform capabilities.

The Lead Software Engineer serves as a senior technical leader responsible for designing and delivering complex platform capabilities that span multiple engineering teams, applications, and services.

This role provides technical leadership beyond an individual team, influencing architecture decisions, engineering standards, platform strategy, and software delivery practices across the organization.

The Lead Software Engineer combines deep technical expertise with systems thinking, helping engineering teams solve complex technical challenges while ensuring solutions align with Varsity Brands ’ long-term platform vision.

This role serves as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership and plays a critical role in developing engineering talent, driving modernization efforts, and accelerating platform transformation.

The Lead Software Engineer helps scale Varsity Brands ’ technology capabilities by creating reusable solutions, improving platform consistency, and strengthening engineering execution across teams.

This role contributes to: Improved scalability, reliability, and performance of platform services Greater reuse of shared se