Technical Lead Software Developer IV Node.js / Typescript / React

At TruStage, we’re on a mission to make a brighter financial future accessible to everyone.  We put people first, and work hand in hand with employees and customers to create a diverse and inclusive environment. Passionate about building insurance and financial services solutions, we push the boundaries of what’s possible. We need you to help us shape what’s next. You’ll be encouraged to share your experiences, ideas and skills to help others take control of their financial future.

Join a team that has received numerous awards for being a top place to work: TruStage awards and recognition

Job Purpose:
This position functions as a technical leader, providing professional and technical direction in the development, installation and maintenance of business systems solutions for the most complex systems across TruStage.  Incumbents must be comfortable functioning in a highly collaborative manner and partner closely with Platform & Architecture teams, Feature Development teams and the QA team in the development of secure, cutting-edge software within TruStage’s Innovation Center. The individual in this position acts as Technical Leader on multiple broad/complex initiatives of any size, including mentoring staff, communicating technical vision and owning implementation decisions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Incumbents in this role perform the following responsibilities in an independent / advanced capacity to support the most complex development work across TruStage, and are responsible for the estimating, planning and managing of their own tasks, reporting on progress in daily scrums and delivering work through sprints.

• Lead Agile Scrum teams to complete sprint commitments. Work with Product Owners to define and scope product development backlog. Document and manage technical debt. Work with team members to assign work units and ensure proper requirements are provided.

• Develop, test, implement, document and maintain high quality business systems software solutions on various computer platforms in response to the story flow across sprints, adhering to established methodology and practices.

• Perform architecturally compliant technical design and requirements as received in the story flow across sprints, and as requested when design spikes are necessary.
  Collaborate with other developers and Tech Leads, and communicating effectively with Scrum Masters, and Product Owners about daily progress or blockers.

• Continually enhance and share knowledge in application development best practices, technologies, methodologies and standards. Acquire, effectively apply and train others in new technical skills as driven by business need and/or technology advancements.

• Develop and maintain an expert level understanding of industry trends and proactively work as appropriate with decision-makers to drive change within and across IT organizational units.

• Developers in this position write clean, maintainable code following best practices; participate in pull requests and other types of peer-review; ensure at least 85% code coverage in automated tests within an automated CI/CD environment; adhere to established branching and merging strategies.

• This role supports Solutions Development efforts having a high degree of ambiguity and breadth.

The above statement of duties is not intended to be all inclusive and other duties will be assigned from time to time.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems or equivalent work experience.

• 7+ years’ experience in a combination of the following software development areas:

  • Cloud-based infrastructure; Azure preferred

  • Microservices architecture using Azure PaaS: Node.js / React / Redux / Typescript; browser-based data persistence patterns

  • Development of RESTful API services.  Certifications a plus

  • SQL Server; knowledge of Azure Cosmos DB is a ‘nice to have’

  • CI / CD best practices; Azure DevOps / Pipelines a plus

  • Development tools in a Windows environment; PowerShell, Docker

  • Git, or an equivalent, distributed version-control system / repo

  • Knowledge of secure coding best practices; familiarity with Veracode is desired

  • Experience with Dynatrace or similar monitoring tools

• 3+ years’ experience as a technical, team or project leader.

• Demonstrated expert knowledge of application development concepts in a multi-platform computing environment, including application development life cycle, n-tier development, event-driven