Technical Lead

What is the Role?

We are looking for a dynamic hands-on Software Engineering Team Lead – someone who can lead a small team of software engineers as well as perform as an individual contributor; an energetic self-starter who loves bringing to life business objectives with current and sound technical solutions.

As a Software Engineering Team Lead, you will be directly responsible for collaborating with our Product & Technical Account Management teams, to add features to the products used by agencies and advertisers and scale out the platform for our ever-expanding business needs. You will help drive technical architecture for your immediate team, and other engineering teams in the organization, helping them overcome their hurdles and achieve their goals.

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Have 4-6 years of full-stack software engineering experience with a track record of building clear, maintainable code, and engineering large-scale systems

• Have strong experience with Python or comparable server-side languages, like Java or Node

• Have experience in frontend technology using HTML/CSS/JavaScript

• Have experience in building out well-thought functional and unit tests

• Have experience using metrics and monitoring tools/frameworks to handle performance optimization or to provide visibility into the systems

• Have experience with architecture and development of business solutions and acting as a thought leader in cloud-based technical solutions

• Have experience of mentoring, educating and motivating young developers.

• Have strong problem solving, analytical and critical thinking skills

• Are a strong communicator who communicates effectively across groups, locations and cultures, in-person and virtually

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a similar field or applicable experience in the industry.

Some technology and tools we use:

• Python, Django, Javascript, React, gRPC as the main languages and frameworks of choice

• AWS Lambda, Kubernetes for running our applications 

• Postgres, S3, Elasticsearch, Dynamo, Snowflake as data stores

• Spark, Airflow for ETL, DAG management

Compensation

For those based in New York City, the expected compensation for this role at time of hire is a salary range of $150,000 - $165,000, plus bonus (based on level and performance), and stock options.  Exact compensation is determined during our interview process by assessing a candidate’s experience and skills relative to internal peers  as well as market benchmarks evaluated for the scope and responsibilities of the position and the location of the candidate. A candidate’s compensation will be based on the role and level they are hired for, which may be different than the role they applied for.   

Interview Process

• 1 or 2 preliminary phone screens of 45 min each

• Virtual onsite that consists of 4-5 rounds (45 mins each) spread across 1 or 2 days meeting:

  • Stakeholders (like Product, Operations, Technical Account Management)

  • Development team (to gauge problem solving skills)

  • Infrastructure team (to gauge technical architectural skills)

  • Hiring Manager / VP of Engineering

• CTO round (optional)

Your first 30 days:

• Learn and understand Place Exchange’s corporate, departmental and team goals

• Work with the Product team to have a clear understanding of the product roadmap

• Identify and incorporate tools needed for working on the transaction processing platform

• Diagnose and troubleshoot production application issues

Your first 60 days:

• Gain a good understanding of the Place Exchange landscape

• Pair with team members on committed initiatives

• Work collaboratively with other engineering teams and incorporate best practices

• Work with stakeholders and formulate delivery plans for key initiatives

Your first 90 days:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership in the development team

• Drive architecture for the team, consistently designing code that is aligned with the overall service architecture

• Promote and drive innovation in technologies, processes, and tools

• Deliver projects on time and budget, ensuring quality standards are met

• Mentor and develop team members, provide constructive feedback on design and code quality and build an inclusive culture with high performing teams

• Help define and enforce development practices, including unit tests and code reviews.

• Develop