Lead Software Engineer

As the Lead Software Engineer (Remote), you will be the linchpin of the product the technical expert for the product, sales, marketing and business teams and the product expert for the technical teams. By combining intimate knowledge of customers, strong analytical skills, and technical acumen, you will drive a holistic product vision that energizes your teammates and delights your customers.

What you'll be doing?

• Build and lead a diverse and geographically distributed team of Engineers
• Coach the team on best practices, review solutions and provide feedback
• Participate in development and implementation of the vision for the team, spanning architecture, dependencies, engineering process, and technology decisions
• Work with product managers, designers, sales and marketing managers to build products that the customers love to use
• Responsible for end-to-end delivery (tech design, development, & testing) and maintenance of our products
• Make sure our products have highest quality, performance and availability
• Make data driven decisions
• Leading quick, effective responses to production issues, and conducting post-incident reviews / RCAs to learn and improve.
• Collaborating with SREs to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs), SLAs.

What you'll need to be successful?

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or 8+ years of equivalent application development experience is required.
• 2+ years of experience managing distributed teams is preferred.
• Product engineering background to support development of B2B and B2C products
• Ability to align technology decisions with business objectives and define the technical direction for the team.
• Experience building responsive, accessible and high-performance web-based products
• Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
• Strong communication skills to work with cross functional teams
• Desire and experience to build products that delight the customers
• Experience with one or more observability platforms to monitor health of the products
• Knowledge of testing frameworks, code optimization, and security best practices.
• Cloud native development experience
• Experience working with one of more Product Analytics tools
• Experience in chaos engineering techniques to validate the platform s ability to withstand unexpected failures.
• Have the ability to work in a fast-paced software release environment, as part of a team or individually.

Experience with the following technologies is required:

• Java
• Expertise in Spring (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Transactions etc)
• Expertise in Angular 17 (version 13+ required) for building scalable SPAs with strong TypeScript and RxJS skills.
• RESTful Services and Microservices Architecture
• CI / CD pipeline (GitHub Actions preferred)
• AWS services
• Skilled in creating Docker containers and orchestrating workloads
• Proficiency with databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, RDS etc.
• Distributed Caching
• Tomcat
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and logging
• Proficient in OAuth, JWT, and OWASP best practices for application security.
• Experience with Terraform (Good to have)