Senior Software Engineering / Team Lead | Fully Remote USA

Company Description

HireVue is the talent experience leader – accelerating the way organizations discover, engage, assess, and hire the best talent. Automating recruiter activities, HireVue connects companies and candidates anytime, anywhere. HireVue’s text-enabled end-to-end talent experience platform includes video interviewing, assessments and conversational AI. HireVue has hosted more than 30 million video interviews and 200 million chat-based candidate engagements for over 800 pioneering customers around the globe.

We are relentlessly focused on developing fair and objective hiring solutions to help our customers and their candidates, and we embrace this same focus of fair and objective hiring when we hire for our own team, striving to build a diverse and inclusive culture based on a foundation of respect and inclusion.

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead 

Location: Fully Remote, must reside in the United States 

Our team is growing and we're looking to add a Senior Software Engineer who will be a Team Lead to our amazing team. This would be a great opportunity for someone looking to get more into the people management side of things, while still being very technical and hands on in the code. 

Compensation: 

Amazing Salary + annual bonus + 401K with match + stock options + flexible PTO + medical + dental/vision

If you're a software engineer who believes in helping teams deliver value to customers quickly and sustainably, and enjoy leading others and enabling them to succeed in their work, then keep reading!

What you’ll be doing:

You'll be serving as a team lead on a software product team - and together with your team, you’ll be writing software for HireVue's core system. You’ll understand customer usage and needs, as well as the requests being made of your team(s), and the impact of the two on our systems. You’ll use this understanding when coordinating work with Product Management, to design solutions and influence what work should happen, and when - and ultimately ensure your team(s) deliver the customer value needed. You’ll support your team(s) by removing roadblocks to their work, and communicating progress inside and outside of the team. And you’ll support the individuals you lead by understanding their unique strengths and abilities, and providing meaningful coaching and mentoring.

Our current tech stack is: 

Python, Django, Celery, Go, WebRTC; Frontend: React, HTML (JSX), CSS (in JS), GraphQL; Storage: PostgreSQL, S3, Elasticsearch. Most of our infrastructure is on AWS so it is a huge plus if you know and love AWS.

Culture:

We want to build great, industry impacting features and have fun doing it. Our team members think the most important parts of our culture are:

• Teams work together to determine what will give our customers the most value and how to accomplish it.

• While our teams are mostly remote, it’s not uncommon for engineers to meet for virtual happy hour on Fridays. Slippers encouraged.

• We encourage you to use that flexible time off policy! (just don’t let your team down!)

• Our most important “attrivute” is “Act like an Owner”. Others are “Keep it Simple”, “Disagree and Commit”, and “Think Big”.

The People:

We have Mountain Bikers, Road Bikers, Skiers / Boarders (dawn patrol & resort), Runners, Video Game heroes, Movie Buffs, Musicians, and many other varieties of people. We have Family people, Single people, Happy people. We know you’ll find a friend here. 

Hiring process:

1. Fill out our very basic application form or reach out to us (apply, email, shout, call)

2. We send you a link to use our awesome software and tell us more about yourself (includes a coding challenge and assessments)

3. We invite you to do a Live interview using our software, so you can meet the team. You’ll learn more about us while we learn more about you.

Qualifications

Requirements 

When it comes to leadership abilities, we are looking for: 

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal

• Strong analytical, organizational, and reasoning abilities

• Ability to lead, coach, and mentor diverse personalities

• Ability to assess current talent, as well as talent gaps, and prioritize and enable professional development opportunities for team members. As well as experience growing teams through hiring great talent

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