Sr. Technical Engineer

Build a Bigger, Better, Bolder Future:

You work on a team building and maintaining the custom software which runs Little Caesars. Whether remote or on site, you will be part of all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle including technical design, development, testing and support. 

Your Mission:

Build deep expertise in multiple areas of software development technology.  Provide guidance, support, and mentorship to less experienced software engineers.  This position may support LCE or other Ilitch companies.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Participate in the design, development, and support of technical projects through to completion according to project and corporate standards and methodologies. 

• Responsible for the individual delivery of large system components. Lead the delivery of small sized projects (up to 12 FTE weeks) as well as for the delivery of complex components of larger projects as part of a team. As a senior member of the team, collaborate with other team leaders to ensure the success of the project.

• Write code that captures the essential nature of the solution and is appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements.

• Analyze, navigate, and understand large code bases and effectively debug others’ code

• Maintain strong awareness of the ecosystem of tools and libraries supporting your primary programming language and development environments. Have a strong grasp of the idioms and patterns of my language.

• Independently design and develop software components in well scoped scenarios, with simplicity and maintenance as key considerations.

• Identify when it is appropriate to make significant refactors.

• Independently identify the right solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems

• Create and maintaining unit tests

• Participate and set an example for other developers in all aspects of agile software development including sprint-planning, story review and demos. Participate in estimation and planning sessions and assist with project kick-offs.

• Regularly pair with more junior developers while completing development assignments. Actively mentor engineers and analysts with less experience.

• Support and provide guidance to Quality Assurance (QA) in the development of integration test plans, test conditions, expected test results, and automated testing.

• Drive the process of developing technical user stories. Work with SCRUM team to assure that stories are clear and understood.

• Resolve system issues, proactively suggest improvements and responds to suggestions for improvements.

• Provide support for production applications including on-call afterhours support on a rotational basis.  Develop and maintain support documentation.

• Lead research and identification of root causes for system issues. Identify deficiencies or alternatives and present proposals to more senior engineers. Participate in technical aspects of system evaluation and vendor selection processes.

• Lead research and proof-of-concepts of new technologies.  Present findings to senior technologists in the organization.

• Function as a SME in at least one area of technology. Provide mentorship and guidance to other colleagues in this area and stay up to date on the latest trends and developments in the area.

• Mentor others and implement best practices on technical tasks which support the overall software development team such as:

• Performing builds and releases

• Working on software pipelines and other developer automation

• Performing pull-request reviews of others’ work

• Assisting with the on-boarding of new colleagues

• Managing interns and intern projects

• Participate in the design and architecture of software projects.

• Decompose problems or business scenarios into a solution composed of multiple software components interacting with each other.

• Identify issues and technical dependencies that are owned by other teams and surface them

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.  Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a formal education.

• Minimum of five (5) years of programming experience in a professional environment.

• Demonstrated strong analytical skills and demonstrated ability to develop solutions and alternatives that meet business goals.

• Strong relationship building skills and ability to collaborate with other IT staff and business units.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to listen and communicate technical inform