Software Engineer Lead

 This position serves as both a technical expert and a people leader. This individual will lead the development of business-critical platforms and drive the adoption of new technologies and solutions. This role entails working with a team of developers, along with internal users and stakeholders, and external partners or vendors. This individual has hands on involvement in design, development and testing of new software projects in an Agile and DevOps model, as well as responsibility for Continuous Improvements for Application Development production systems and interfaces.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for the technical design of the Company’s platforms, working with business analysts and end users to understand the functional requirements, and translate these into technical designs for the team to deliver.
• Design, write and optimize your own code, as well as ensuring your team members are able to optimize theirs.
• Assist team members in completing tasks, reviewing and resolving issues, providing technical coaching and promoting simplicity in solving complex problems across our products.
• Participate in all aspects of the product development and software delivery lifecycle, focusing on raising the bar on technical quality, performance, and agility.
• Act as a proactive technical leader with experience owning and delivering technical roadmaps.
• Partner with internal teams to design, build, test, deploy, and sustain complete and functional capabilities to internal users, customers and partners.
• Maintain availability for after-hours production support as needed.

Required Skills & Competencies:

• Technical Knowledge:
  • Expert proficiency in Java including JAX-RS web services
  • Strong RDBMS skills including data modeling, entity design with advanced SQL skills, and proficiency with Hibernate/JPA.
  • Expert Proficiency with AWS, including Lambda, IAM, Cognito, SMS, SQS, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, CloudWatch.
  • Proven experience designing and developing, maintaining and evolving secure and performant RESTful APIs and services.
  • Proven experience with event-driven, object-oriented, and service-oriented patterns and architectures
  • Experience with React or similar component-based web framework.
  • Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices
  • Exposure to Infrastructure as Code concepts and best practices; Terraform experience preferred
• Innovation: experience digitizing and automating operational processes and workflows
• Effective Communication: Provide well thought-out, concise and timely oral and written information through presentation, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Concern for Accuracy: Experience with Continuous Integration and automated unit and acceptance testing frameworks. GitHub Actions a plus.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with observability platforms; DataDog preferred
• Python experience
• Exposure to Java FX
• Experience in data pipeline technologies such as Apache Kafka, Spark.
• Managerial experience

Other:

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This is a fully in-office position.