Lead Software Developer, Corporate Development Portal

About the role

Hugo's Corporate Development department needs a lead engineer to own the Corporate Development Portal, part of Hugo's internal Intelligence Hub. Senior leaders use it daily for a trusted view of business performance, planning and strategic initiatives. You will own the portal end to end: architecture, delivery, quality and production health. You bring a background in analytics and financial intelligence platforms, and you know how to turn financial and operational data into figures executives can act on.

Key responsibilities

• Take the existing prototype to a production application on the Intelligence Hub and lead its continuous evolution.
• Own the architecture and technical roadmap, presenting options and trade-offs to the executive sponsor and department leaders.
• Design data models, metric definitions and reconciliation checks that keep financial figures consistent across dashboards, reports and the AI layer.
• Build frontend pages and components in React, with charts in Recharts.
• Build backend routes in Node and Express serving warehouse and Postgres data to the UI.
• Own the data pipelines feeding the Portal and keep dashboard figures matching their sources.
• Design and build the AI layer, including agents that work from the knowledge base and natural language querying of dashboards.
• Implement authentication and role-based access for multiple user groups in line with Hugo's data security standards.
• Set code review, testing, documentation and release practices, and keep the Portal available and fast in production with runbooks.
• Guide and review the work of engineers or contractors added to the Portal.

Required profile

• 8+ years of professional full-stack development, including at least one data-heavy product you architected and led to production.
• Hands-on experience building analytics platforms and financial intelligence products (performance reporting, FP&A, planning, treasury, investor reporting, business intelligence).
• Experience leading technical direction as a tech lead, staff engineer or engineering lead, including mentoring others.
• Experience modelling financial data, including metric definitions, period handling, currency and reconciliation to source systems.
• Production experience with authentication and role-based access control, and with protecting confidential data.
• Experience with a BI tool such as Omni, Looker, Tableau or Power BI.
• Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Git and GitHub workflow, including leading code review.
• A record of working directly with executives and business stakeholders.

Required skills

• Strong JavaScript: React on the frontend, Node.js and Express on the backend.
• Strong SQL and deep experience with PostgreSQL or a comparable relational database.
• Experience building data-heavy dashboards and analytics applications.
• Experience with BigQuery or another cloud data warehouse.
• Cloud and deployment experience (AWS, Cloudflare, Nginx, CI/CD pipelines) is a strong advantage.
• Python or Node for scripting and data manipulation is a strong advantage.