Lead Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Set clear goals and expectations for team members, conducting regular performance reviews, and providing constructive feedback.
• Manage and lead team members to understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Design, develop, and maintain front-end applications using React, Typescript, and JavaScript
• Optimize applications for performance and scalability using Webpack and other build tools.
• Implement and style user interfaces with SCSS, and 3^rd party CSS Frameworks.
• Lead the migration of existing applications and develop, test, and deploy serverless applications on AWS using services like EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, and Lambda.
• Ensure security of applications with JWT tokens.
• Write clean, maintainable code, following software development best practices.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality.
• Work with QA to develop test plans and build and maintain unit test suites using Jasmine, React Testing Library, Jest, or similar frameworks.
• Mentor and coach team members through regular one on ones.
• Champion a team focused, learning culture within your team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on front-end technologies.
• 3 years demonstratable experience leading a software development team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, Typescript, and familiarity with build tools such as Webpack or similar.
• Proficiency in front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, or similar.
• Proficiency with CSS preprocessors and extension languages like Sass/SCSS.
• Strong understanding of version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of logging, error, and debugging best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience with JWT tokens and front-end security best practices.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, SQS, SNS) and serverless architecture.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a highly collaborative team.

Licenses Certifications: AWS Certifications a plus.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree or similar work experience

Essential Functions:

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret business documents
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from group of employees, managers and Customers
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus to read a computer screen and various documents. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and use hands and fingers for keyboarding or similar use of hands. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and occasionally required to talk and hear.

EEOC/Other: Fidelity Life Association is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse workplace. As a Fidelity Life employee, you will be eligible for Medical and Dental Insurance, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Dependent Care & Transit), Vision Care, 401(K), Short-term and Long-term Disability, Life and AD&D coverages.