Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading an engineering team involved in several products for various platforms and services. This is a technical leadership role responsible for assisting in any technical capacity within the team to unblock and enable engineers and QA personnel. This person defines, documents, and evolves best practices for development in their team's area of focus; shepherds and aids in development of new projects across the organization; provides training and mentoring for multiple team members; constantly works to broaden the technical capabilities of their team. This experienced engineer should be a great culture fit who is passionate about the team members' success and the technology that drives our products. Openness and vulnerability is a must-have.

Key Responsibilities & Objectives

1. This person is the technical leader on their team.
2. Executes the plans set forth by the technology leadership team in a technical capacity.
3. Acts in a self-directed manner according to a holistic understanding of the team's goals and any obstacles in the face of those goals.
4. Presides over meetings and situations when a supervisor cannot participate synchronously, and perceives intuitively how to direct the collective efforts of the team to accomplish a particular objective.
5. Sets standards and procedures for the team to follow. Keeps an eye out for deficiencies and intercepts issues before they escalate.
6. Researches new technologies and best solutions for each problem.
7. Collaborates closely with other teams including Marketing, Finance, BizDev, and Operations.
8. Supports and troubleshoots issues with existing code, including incident response.
9. Assists heavily in product releases, revisions, patches and code reviews.
10. Makes decisions backed up by usage data and reporting tools.
11. Keeps products up to date with new technology, contemporary standards, and best practices.
12. Understands and improves all code bases currently under development.
13. Understands the overlap between application development and cloud operations.
14. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Superb verbal and electronic communication skills.
• A bias towards action, and a leader by example.
• Frontend and Backend Web Development Technologies.
• Previous experience in a leader engineer role.
• Understanding of web services technologies such as HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST.
• Security principles and architecture.
• Experience with Cloud Operations and DevOps - prefer AWS.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g. Typescript, NodeJS, Bash, PHP)
• Experience with PHP, React, Typescript, NodeJS, MySQL