Engineer, Software - Lead I

Work as part of a small agile team to design and implement new features and technologies. Deliver high-quality, high-performance code in an agile environment. Use, evaluate, and learn exciting new technologies that keep products and teams on the cutting edge. Provide technical direction and oversight for a single development project. Contribute to the leadership of cross-functional teams. Help lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex solutions with a focus on quality, performance, and resiliency.

• Oversee the work being done by other software engineers working on the team, coordinating team activities with other teams and product groups, maintaining software architecture standards.
• Consistently defines and applies technologies, standards and software engineering practices, mentoring other team members
• Contributes in leading and directing software engineering resources to ensure timely and quality delivery of services.
• Responsible for mentoring junior talent as well as directing technical staff through technical challenges, tasks and projects.
• Develop key product features within existing large-scale enterprise applications & new strategic initiatives.
• Participate in the full SDLC involving design, implementation, testing, and launching.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (QA, Business Analyst, Tech Pubs, etc.) in an Agile/Scrum team environment.
• Assist with the generation and analysis of business and functional requirements for proposed software solutions.
• Participate in and sometimes lead architectural and database design discussions as they relate to product direction.
• Create design specifications, documentation, and unit testing plans as defined by the Agile development process.
• Generate data for project planning, including task breakdown and estimation of work for a project. Tracks status within the project as necessary.
• Delegates tasks to project team members to balance work and increase team cross-training
• Raises long-term architecture issues within project
• Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application, and serve as a technical lead on small to midsize complex projects.
• Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined. Design and define the interaction between the other component pieces.
• Maintain and support software solutions post-production.
• Implements and debugs some of the more involved/complex functionality.

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Required Work Experience:

N/A

Preferred Work Experience:

• 5-7 years of professional experience in software development.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

• Ability to sit or stand for long periods of time.

Knowledge:

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented (OO) design patterns, distributed databases, and data modeling techniques.
• Proficiency in Enterprise Java programming plus one or more modern programming languages
• Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications.

Skills:

• Ability to multi-task
• Analytical skills
• Ability to follow verbal or written instructions
• Thinking analytically
• Communication
• Using effective verbal communication
• Using effective written communication
• Handling stress & emotions
• Concentrating on tasks
• Making decisions
• Adjusting to change
• Examining/observing details
• Ability to direct and motivate other technical resources.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Motivation to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects
• Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science or equivalent (Required)