Lead IT Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Individual who is dedicated to building exceptional software.

Provides lead responsibility to develop and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products. Develops software and tools in support of design, infrastructure and technology platforms. Lead Software Engineers are primarily responsible for designing highly complex solutions then building and overseeing the execution of those designs.

Role requirements:

• Design and build highly complex software solutions using agile/XP/TDD.

• Lead a team in programing well-designed, efficient code independently.

• Collaborate with designers, developers, and product owners to build cloud native software solutions targeting PCF, Azure, AWS, mobile iOS/Android, etc.

• Clearly communicate team wide progress and identify blocking processes/patterns that hold a team back.

• Participate in paired programming and code reviews with mentees to expand the team’s collective knowledge and understanding of software engineering.

• Complete independent research to refine best practices and present work to peers.

• Turn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work to complete as part of a product team.

• Coach and mentor software developers.

• Provide technical guidance to leadership so that solutions are built with innovation and sustainability in mind.

• Learn the business drivers of a product and help drive the technical direction of a product to fulfill the desired vision.

• Recommend and implement best practices and innovative solutions to drive digital transformation in the organization.

Lead Software Engineers will typically possess:

• A breadth of experience building software solutions (through a strong mix of independent research/projects and industry expertise).

• Significant familiarity and comfort in using IDEs. Knows short-cuts and frequents operations that speeds up development time.

• Deep and solid understanding of APIs. Have been involved in designing/building/implementing APIs.

• Considered an expert of cloud-native software engineering best practices.

• Familiarity with a several frameworks. Resulting code is concise and easy-to-follow.

• Ability to build a custom framework (when necessary).

• Experience with automation and optimization. Looks for ways to create repeatable patterns that increase the efficiency of the team.

• Experience and ability to manage and optimize databases.

• Understanding of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in any language. Quick to picking up a new language or adopting a more recent version of a language.

• Familiarity and ability to comfortably work with multiple platforms.

• Deep experience turning complex ideas into workable solutions.

• Previous experience collaborating on a cross-functional team.

• Deep understanding of development cycle.

• Ability to debug and avoid future problems by building more robust solutions.

• Ability to look at previous personal or team experience and use this to analyze mistakes/successes, draw conclusions, and design future solutions. Resulting solutions have few bugs and quick remediation times.

• Previous experience translating business needs into valuable solutions for customers.

• Previous experience building solutions with vulnerabilities in mind. Thinks in advance about possible system bottleneck, looks out for vulnerabilities and problems. Remediates these issues as part of design of a new solution.

• Experience acting as a strong instructor for team members.

• Experience building solutions with the larger team in mind. Solutions have the goal of improving software engineering at the team level.

• Experience with teaching and mentoring team members at various levels.

• Previous involvement in the long-term vision of projects and software engineering practices.

• Demonstrated stro