Roles & Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe, and high-performance work environment.
- Support the engineers on the team by coaching, setting goals, and providing regular feedback.
- Facilitate team ceremonies - daily stand ups, weekly team meetings, retrospectives, etc.
- Champion processes and the engineering maturity expected of an established tech-focused organization.
- Lead design, discovery, technical planning, and status discussions within your team, helping set direction and context, and identifying any gaps or blockers.
- Contribute to discussions around high level planning, roadmaps, and status with teams across the organization.
What to Bring
9-13 years of experience developing scalable software using microservicesExperience in backend and frontend software development, ranging from building micro services and event driven architectures / solutions to customer-facing UI.Experience in private and public API design and cross-service integrations.Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)Familiarity with a range of database technologies, encompassing both SQL and NoSQL options.Usage and deep understanding of JavaScript / TypeScript, Kubernetes, Kafka and AWS servicesExperience building, operating, and owning services. Implementing operational excellence mechanisms, runbooks, and best practices including alerting, metrics, and logging using CloudWatch, PagerDuty, etc.Ability to work with minimal instructions on day-to-day work, able to consume and self-start with general instructions on new assignments.Fosters an inclusive, supportive, and physiologically safe engineering culture.About you :
You understand a broad range of computer science concepts, and know how, when, and when not to use them. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team, and you are still comfortable with technical details.You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgement when choosing to build new vs adapting existing systems.You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, in collaboration with other teams as necessary.You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist and have a track-record of applying these on teams you have led.You are comfortable with scrum agile methodologies, aiming for continuous improvement, adapting best engineering practices, and leading by example.Skills Required
API Design, Nosql, Typescript, Javascript, Sql, Kubernetes, Microservices, Full Stack