Lead Software Engineer

Those duties include:

• Work within an Agile environment to plan and deliver work incrementally.

• Develop high quality maintainable and scalable SaaS (Software as a Service) applications on the Java technology stack.

• Collaborate with product owners, architects, and software engineers to deliver key business objectives.

• Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers, through the delivery of products and services with strong and extendable design patterns.

• Mentor less-experienced engineers in their career development and provide them with regular guidance and direction including peer code review.

• Research, design, test, and evaluate modern technologies and vendor solutions.

• Analyze user stories with product owners to validate product designs.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 6-8+ years’ experience developing and delivering large scale distributed systems using modern microservice architectures

• Experience managing an engineering team in an agile environment.

• 3+ years’ experience in Golang

• 3+ years’ experience in JavaScript (Node.js)

• Prior experience with a Jascript SPA framework (Vue.js)

• Prior experience with at least one major IaaS and/or PaaS technology (AWS)

• Prior experience with relational database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

• Prior experience with document stores (Elasticsearch)

• Prior experience with message queue systems (Kafka)

• Prior experience with agile development, continuous delivery, and DevOps

• Thorough understanding of the DRY, SOLID and KISS principles of software development

• Flexibility and creativity in implementation of designs - including leveraging emerging technologies

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities

• Ability to clearly explain and justify ideas when faced with competing alternatives

• Ability to communicate and apply common design patterns across a wide range of technical problems