Lead Software Engineer

• 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