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Lead Backend Software Engineer in United States

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$177.2K – $177.2K/yr

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📍 California, United States
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$176.6K – $294.3K/yr

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ROLE SUMMARY As an AI-enabled strategic scientific leader, you will partner with Oncology Research Leadership to integrate AI-driven strategies that will drive data-informed decision-making across our Oncology Research pipeline. As the AI Portfolio Lead, you will bridge cutting-edge AI/advanced analytics with deep Oncology R&D expertise to guide our portfolio strategy. Working as an individual contributor reporting into the Head, Portfolio Strategy and Program Management, you will analyze and continuously assess Oncology Research projects using AI-driven insights (predictive models, scenario simulations, competitive intelligence) and propose actionable strategies to Oncology Research Leadership. This role is science-focused and spans across discovery and preclinical stage programs, ensuring that our project teams pursue the most promising scientific approaches and mechanisms of action. Your work will directly inform pipeline prioritization and resource allocation decisions, enhancing the quality and objectivity of governance deliberations with robust data. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES Portfolio Analysis and Insights: Continuously analyze the oncology Research portfolio (ESD through Preclinical) using advanced AI/ML tools and analytics to evaluate each program’s scientific strength, probability of success, and strategic portfolio fit per disease area strategies. Strategy Recommendation: Develop and propose data-driven portfolio strategies (at both project and portfolio levels) to senior leaders and Research governance committee. Use scenario analysis and predictive modeling to highlight optimal project prioritization, pipeline balance, and resource allocation scenarios. AI-Enabled Decision Support: Integrate AI-derived insights (e.g. machine learning predictions, knowl

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📍 Tampa Florida United States, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +800%
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About Citi: Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients' best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services. Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We'll enable growth and progress together. About the Team: The <span style="font-size:inherit"

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📍 New York New York United States, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +800%
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The Financing and Clearing Platform Lead Analyst is an experienced professional responsible for driving revenue generation, ensuring Citi offers state-of-the-art platforms through direct technical and strategic contributions, and maximizing risk management through expert-level oversight and optimization. This role directly contributes to the company's financial success by ensuring our platform, particularly in Prime Product Development with a strong emphasis on margin and cross-product margining, is at the forefront of innovation, efficiency, and client service, leveraging deep subject matter expertise. Responsibilities · Strategic Contribution to Trading Profit & Loss Drivers: Drives the strategic analysis and interpretation of trading revenues, financing expenses, and other key business metrics to identify and proactively pursue significant opportunities for revenue enhancement. This includes a deep understanding of how margin methodologies and cross-product margining efficiencies impact P&L. Expertly assesses complex trends in profitability and returns, and directly contributes to crafting and executing comprehensive growth plans in conjunction with senior sales and trading leadership. Accountable for providing expert insights and recommendations for managing high-level business metrics and optimizing the overall revenue mix across broad segments. · Driving Innovation and Direct Development of Trading Platform: Initiates, plans, and directly contributes to the prioritization of significant, strategic enhancements to platform capabilities that will open new trading opportunities and drastically improve efficiency across the business. Drives innovations through direct technical and strategic input to address emerging client demand and significant industry trends, directly enhancing business profitability, and strengthening the overall risk and

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📍 Austin, TX, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +1800%

$75K – $89K/yr

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JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way . Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. JLL - Store Operations & Office Services Lead (P3) Transform at JLL on a prominent Fortune 500 technology client account! You will join our integrated facilities management team at our clients global corporate headquarters. Location: Austin, TX 78741 (SE Austin) Work Schedule: Onsite, M-F 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Estimated base salary range: $75,000 - 89,000 What this job involves: The Store Operations & Office Services Lead is responsible for overseeing and managing the day-to-day operations of the workplace environment within the Texas facilities. This role focuses on creating a productive, safe, and engaging workplace for employees and visitors, with specialized emphasis on store operations management, and office services leadership. The Manager collaborates with various stakeholders, including HR, Facilities, IT, and external vendors, to ensure the effective management of workplace facilities, services, and resources across Oracle's San Antonio and Austin locations. What your day-to-day will look like: Store Operations Management (Primary Focus) Austin/Redwood Shores Manage end-to-end client store

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📍 Bethesda, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +500%
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Leidos has an exciting opportunity for Cyber Security Engineer—Technical Lead in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area . Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos , we offer competitive benefits , including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security! Job Summary This role is responsible for protecting the customer’s information systems and networks from potential cyber-attacks. The Cyber Security Engineer– Technical Lead will serve in a hands-on “player-coach&#34; capacity, dedicating approximately 75% of time to direct technical engineering, troubleshooting, and implementation work, while providing technical leadership and coordination across the security team. The candidate must display an excellent understanding of technology and utilization of Firewalls (Security Groups), VPNs, Data Loss Prevention (DPS), IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, Security tools, and Security Audits. Candidate will work directly with Team leads, developers, operations personnel, and other Technical Leads throughout a DevSecOps life cycle both on policy and technical implementation of technologies. This is not a supervisory management role. Success in this position is measured by individual technical contribution and resolution of complex security issues, in addition to technical leadership impact. Primary Responsibilities: Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade security controls and tools used to protect enterprise systems and networks, while identifying opportunitie

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📍 Texas, United States of America, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +103.7%

$147.1K – $230.9K/yr

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Platform Deployment Management Lead Description - Job Summary • This role is responsible for leading the development and success of software products or features. The role formulates strategies and meticulous software plans for organization's platforms and technologies. The role recruits, motivates, mentors, coaches, develops, and retains a high-performing team of product managers and product marketers. Responsibilities • Plays a leadership role and drives the progress of the product management function. • Leads cross-functional teams through agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. • Monitors competitive market to determine client needs for certain product improvements. • Strategically partners with key senior stakeholders to understand needs and priorities. • Recommends product requirements and definitions to align with stakeholder's needs. • Collaborates with the software engineering team on feature ideas and prototypes to bring potential solutions to life. • Advises key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle. • Tracks and reports key metrics to drive future product developments. • Collaborates with marketing and sales teams to develop go-to-market strategies, product launch plans, and marketing collateral. • Demonstrates process improvement and project management experience, preferably with the implementation of large projects. Education & Experience Recommended • Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence. • Typically has 10&#43; years of work experience, preferably in product management, digital or software product development, or a related field.

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📍 United States· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +310%
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Become a part of our caring community As a Project Management Lead, in a Shared Services capacity supporting the Insurance organization, you will manage all aspects of cross-functional, varying degrees of complexity programs and/or projects to deliver sustainable business outcomes on time and within budget. Your business outcomes focus fosters flexibility in how to achieve the desired results in the most efficient way possible. You will utilize structured and organized ways of working to consistently deliver high quality results yet embrace business agility to adapt plans when necessary. Working in a team-based environment, you will use influencing skills to hold others accountable for their parts while also offering suggestions for continual improvement. Your expertise will enable you to participate and contribute to the Project Management and Change Management Centers of Excellence. Location: remote The Project Management Lead will work closely with business owners/project sponsors to understand the scope of a project, create a charter with defined milestones to develop an implementation approach and project plan. The candidate will secure resources by identifying impacted stakeholders, facilitate meetings, and coordinate the activities to achieve business objectives within established timeframes. As a business partner in the implementation of new initiatives, the Project Management Lead is responsible for managing all phases of the project life cycle and includes feasibility (business case), design (planning), build (oversee delivery of planned work), test (quality), deploy (transitional activities), and close (archive documented knowledge). Apply internal processes and enforce project standards (such as but not limited to Charter, RACI Matrix, Status Reports, Project Plan, Risk/Issues Tracking, etc.) </

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📍 New York New York United States, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +800%
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As a Vice President within this global team, you will own key analytical workstreams, drive strategic client-level initiatives, and execute optimization agendas. Your primary responsibilities will include: Client Analytics & Optimization: Develop client-level analytics to identify and pursue opportunities for optimization. Stakeholder Management: Lead the agenda with Client Treasurer and Client Analytics teams regarding allocation methodologies and strategy. Technology Implementation: Manage the end-to-end tech implementation of new analytics, metrics, and reporting tools. Project Management: Oversee the lifecycle of analytical projects, from data acquisition to final delivery and follow-up. Data Acquisition and Analysis: Perform deep data acquisition and analysis to generate actionable insights and support strategic initiatives. Data Quality Management: Lead the escalation and follow-up process for data quality issues to ensure the integrity of underlying data. Metric Development: Design, develop, and implement new metrics to track performance and drive business outcomes. Ad-hoc Pricing: Provide analytical support and ad-hoc pricing for global clients to ensure optimal returns. System Ownership: Act as the module owner of GSIB, and Client Financials modules in our LMS data-mart (Clearview), driving their development and effective use. As an integral part of the broader Pricing and Optimization team, you will also contribute to a range of activities spanning subject matter expertise on client liquidity value, client pricing, client financials, and Services data architecture. Also, some activities related to product development, which include technical coordination, control execution, and performance monitoring, alongside ad-hoc tasks like issue management, UAT testing, and stakeholder coordinat

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📍 Tampa Florida United States, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +800%
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About the Team: The IT Project Technology Lead is a strategic professional at the intersection of technology leadership and business impact — a recognized subject matter authority who brings both depth of expertise and the foresight to shape directional decisions that extend well beyond their immediate domain. This is not a role for those who simply manage tasks; it is a role for those who understand how technology, people, and process converge to drive transformation at scale. At Citi, where every system and solution ultimately serves hundreds of millions of customers across more than 160 countries, this individual operates at a level where their technical judgment carries real organizational weight. The successful candidate will work alongside senior project staff, technology architects, infrastructure teams, and client-facing leadership to ensure that complex, high-impact initiatives are delivered with precision, clarity, and strategic intent. They will influence functional decisions through trusted counsel, champion process improvements that raise the performance bar, and serve as a guide and mentor to the analysts and practitioners who look to them for direction. Their work does not stop at execution — it shapes how Citi's technology landscape evolves, how risk is managed with integrity, and how the organization positions itself to meet the demands of an ever-changing global financial environment. Responsibilities: Develops detailed IT work plans, schedules; project estimates, resource plans and status reports. Interfaces with senior project staff and client senior management teams regarding status of projects. Recommends and oversees process improvements. Has considerable business impact through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes and industry s

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -80.2%
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About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Finance Program Management Office (FinPMO) is responsible for driving and scaling cross-functional finance programs and M&A integrations. FinPMO partners closely across Accounting, Strategic Finance, Corporate Development, Equity, Procurement, Treasury, Risk, and Legal to ensure financial change through M&A and other new business models is executed in a controlled, auditable, and operationally effective way. FinPMO plays a critical role in managing M&A including financial deal diligence, finance operations, post-close integrations, reporting and controls. We help quarterback the M&A process to help ensure corporate integrations are executed cleanly, risks are managed proactively, and leadership has clear deal visibility. About the Role As a M&A Finance Integration Lead, you will own and scale OpenAI’s finance integration model. This is a highly cross-functional, transactions driven role for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, translate deal complexity into executable workplans, and drive successful M&A outcomes across multiple teams. We’re looking for someone to be the central point of accountability to oversee finance workstreams across the full M&A lifecycle. You’ll ensure integrations are executed cleanly, financial risks are mitigated early, and our books, controls, and systems remain stable as OpenAI scales. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Define and build standardized, scalable M&A finance integration frameworks. Drive consistent execution across multiple, simultaneous M&A integrations. Ensure timely, accurate M&A diligence including historical financials, revenue, equity, tax, and procurement. Lead integration planning for deal close readiness a

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -80.2%
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About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customer’s adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We are looking for a leader to build and scale our Support Engineering team, which will collaborate directly with our strategic enterprise accounts, our product and engineering teams, as well as our field teams to solve some of the most difficult technical problems faced by our customers. You will lead one of the best technical troubleshooting teams at OpenAI, and our customers and Engineering teams will look to you for technical guidance in addressing the most technically difficult issues in our environment. You will play an integral role in building knowledge within the team and be part of strategic initiatives for organizational and process improvements. Working directly with our most strategic customers - You will be crucial to the success of the most innovative, disruptive, and high-scale AI solutions being built with the OpenAI platform. This team will handle high difficulty situations and issues. The team will be global, providing 24x7 technical coverage for our customers. This will be an opportunity to build this new team from first principles - your leadership will determine the future of this organization. The ideal candidate will have a combination of technical capabilities mixed with strong leadership and systems building strength. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days

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📍 United States· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +340.2%
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary The Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) Analyst II identifies and develops potential healthcare fraud leads through data mining, claims analysis, and investigative research. As a key contributor to the SIU lead development process, this role evaluates provider, member, pharmacy, and ancillary healthcare billing patterns for signs of fraud, waste, abuse, and other anomalies. The Analyst II uses internal claims data, analytical tools, business rule results, and industry intelligence to assess potential FWA concerns and determine whether they warrant formal investigation. This role requires strong analytical skills, healthcare claims expertise, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable investigative leads and recommendations. Essential Responsibilities Lead Development & Fraud Detection Develop proactive and reactive leads to identify potential fraud, waste, and abuse. Generate FWA leads by mining claims databases, reporting tools, and investigative systems. Validate and refine leads generated by business rules to assess their credibility and investigative value. Examine spike analyses, utilization trends, payment anomalies, and outlier reports for unusual billing patterns. Evaluate provider, member, pharmacy, DME, transportation, and facility billing for indicators of fraud or abuse. Moni

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📍 United States· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +340.2%
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary The Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) Analyst II identifies and develops potential healthcare fraud leads through data mining, claims analysis, and investigative research. As a key contributor to the SIU lead development process, this role evaluates provider, member, pharmacy, and ancillary healthcare billing patterns for signs of fraud, waste, abuse, and other anomalies. The Analyst II uses internal claims data, analytical tools, business rule results, and industry intelligence to assess potential FWA concerns and determine whether they warrant formal investigation. This role requires strong analytical skills, healthcare claims expertise, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable investigative leads and recommendations. Essential Responsibilities Lead Development & Fraud Detection Develop proactive and reactive leads to identify potential fraud, waste, and abuse. Generate FWA leads by mining claims databases, reporting tools, and investigative systems. Validate and refine leads generated by business rules to assess their credibility and investigative value. Examine spike analyses, utilization trends, payment anomalies, and outlier reports for unusual billing patterns. Evaluate provider, member, pharmacy, DME, transportation, and facility billing for indicators of fraud or abuse. Moni

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📍 East Peoria, IL 61611-2445, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +89.4%

$22 – $24/hr

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The starting pay range for this position per hour is $21.75 - $23.75. The full pay range for this position per hour is $21.75 - $37.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits . ALL ABOUT TARGET Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here. ALL ABOUT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Prop

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📍 Minneapolis, MN 55403-2542, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +89.4%

$95K – $171K/yr

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The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits . Job Title: Pest Program Lead Classification: Exempt Date: September 2026 About us: About us: Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here .

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