Team Lead, Software Engineering

Your Responsibilities

• Leads and provides technical mentorship and direction to a small team of software engineers.
• Conducts pull request reviews to ensure security, stability, performance, and readability.
• Actively manages the development process for the team, scoping and defining work regardless of perceived ambiguity or degree of clarity.
• Writes lots of bug-free, efficient, scalable, and reusable code.
• Designs and develops components and features with performance and scalability in mind.
• Builds APIs and web applications that can handle complex data efficiently.
• Unit tests and takes responsibility for the quality of your own code and the code of your team.
• Decomposes monolithic applications into more modern microservices.
• Provides input on our architecture, databases, and APIs.
• Consults with product managers to define, scope, and plan new features.
• Works with QA to ensure that cohesive, quality, usable solutions are produced.
• Tests, evaluates, and recommends technologies to improve our overall solutions.
• Is a key participant in our agile development process.
• Produces excellent documentation.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional development experience.
• 2+ years’ experience successfully providing technical direction to engineers.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science required or equivalent experience.
• Intimately familiar with the fundamentals of computer science and software architecture.
• Substantial experience with React.js, JavaScript and HTML/CSS.
• Substantial experience with web development in at least one of Java, C#, or Python.
• Substantial experience with SQL; experience with NoSQL is a plus.
• Experience with Node.js, especially in microservices, is highly preferred.
• Experience with containerized application deployments, especially using Docker, is highly preferred.
• Experience with large-scale data systems is highly preferred.
• Has a passion for decomposing monolithic applications into more modern microservices.
• Experience with message queueing architectures, especially RabbitMQ, is preferred.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, especially EC2, S3, VPC, Elasticsearch, and Kinesis.
• Any IoT experience is a huge plus.
• Can create designs and build an application from requirements and discuss with product and engineering stake holders.
• Experience executing products, features, or enhancements utilizing the full development lifecycle.
• Experience supporting production products.

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