Lead Software Engineer - Loyalty Program

Title: Lead Software Engineer
Location: Remote (Southern CA)
Duration: Contract to Hire
Compensation: $80-100/hr. 
Work Requirements: , Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

• You will be accountable for working in a fast paced environment and collaborating with engineers across multiple teams.
• You will build highly scalable, modular solutions that solve complex business needs while keeping the user experience front and center.
• You will lead, manage and inspire engineers to deliver projects with high quality standards.
• You will be responsible for collaborating with other functions like product, design, PMO and business to understand the business needs and translate them into working software.
• This position may require you to occasionally work outside of standard business hours and participate in an on-call rotation to provide support 24/7.

• Lead a team of full stack engineers of mixed levels and skill sets
• Participate and drive development work across globally distributed software teams
• Provide technical guidance to the team, including architecture and design decisions, code reviews, and technical problem-solving
• Own the full development and deployment cycle for your team's software and product
• Encourage and grow developers in their craft through mentorship and leadership
• Organize, prioritize; multitask while coordinating team efforts, reporting to stakeholders and management on the progress of goals
• Connect with a series of stakeholders to gather as much information as possible regarding the problem at hand, and implement short to mid-term strategies to evolve products for future success. (UX / Design / Product / PMO...etc.)
• Make technical recommendations outside of the immediate team
• Debug and triage production application issues, often not your own
• Automate testing, deployments, performance, and recovery
• Organise and oversee production releases

• 6+ years experience as a full stack engineer with a focus on backend engineering, with at least 2 years as a lead engineer.
• Expert level knowledge of frontend design patterns
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience working with React, NextJS, GraphQL and CSS
• Experience working as a backend software engineer, preferably in Java.
• Experience working in a distributed systems environment with micro-frontends and microservices
• Experience working with AWS or other Cloud Provider
• Experience with CI/CD servers (Gitlab/Jenkins)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other orchestration/scheduling framework
• Experience building high performance and resilient applications operating at web scale
• Experience building applications to be gracefully degradable
• Experience working on legacy applications and migrations would be a plus
• Experience working with remote teams
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to clearly communicate technical topics to non-technical people
• Experience of mentoring team members and will delegate work accordingly

Our benefits package includes: 

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• …and much more!