Lead Software Development Engineers work across the end-to-end software development life cycle and apply modern software development practices when defining, designing, building, testing and delivering software and services to users.
Lead Software Engineers effectively collaborate with cross functional teams including senior stakeholders to deliver on projects.
You will utilize your deep technical expertise and skillset by representing software development engineering in overall project management by specifying and driving progress towards development activities, milestones, and timelines.
This role independently builds software solutions, solves highly complex problems and displays innovation when delivering projects and/or product(s).
About the role:
Influences multiple cross-functional project teams to execute and adopt a point of view for ideas and initiatives
Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
Trains and mentors colleagues including Sr. Software Engineers
Strategic focus
Plans, designs, develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products
Writes code that establishes and enhances coding specifications, typically for software programs and systems that have little or no precedent.
Delivers software features with exceptional quality, meeting designated release plans and delivery commitments.
Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
Owns a functional area. Breaks large requests down into sub-tasks, gives higher-level status updates. Writes test plans.
Participates in developing technical / business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools.
Sets software engineering project schedules, defines project parameters and tasks and monitors project tasks.
Develops and keeps the vision of the project, leading others toward its completion.
Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
Owns the development and rollout for an entire product, or large project.
Leads the daily work of assigned work group / team. Recommends modifications to the daily operations of the assigned work group / team. Makes needed adjustments to short-term priorities.
Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise. Interacts with direct team of accountability, peers and/or managers in other teams. May interact with vendors and/or customers to share information and improve workflow processes.
About you:
5-10+ Years of experience
If the candidate has experience in some of these platform then it would be a plus:
Java
AWS
Python
Terraform
Serverless design technics
Business SaaS systems including Salesforce, Zuora, Stripe
Integration architecture experience is a big plus
Data & analytics experience is welcomed
Very good communication skills to be able to talk with business, technology, management, top management in meaningful and result-oriented manner
Have wide technology experience and vision
Learn quickly. For instance, able to catch up on data architecture and work with other architects on designing the data platform which correlates with enterprise strategy.
Challenge business decisions and views, influence business decisions
Be a bridge between business and technology
Provide high level estimates, scope definition, work breakdown structure and cost estimates for management
Create system design which can be understood by business and by technology including developers, QA's, BA's and management
Provide technology governance of multiple scrum teams
Be hands-on. For instance, review PR's created by developers to validate that system design is addressed properly or create a POC to prove some design option (but no intensive coding is required)
Understand enterprise architecture and be able to create design aligned with enterprise architecture
Be able to improve engineering practices including at solution architecture area such as architecture documentation standards and guidelines
Able to research, analyze and evaluate solution options (e.g. buy vs build), present them to architecture and business stakeholders
Able to lead as an architect multiple projects at a time, balance your time and focus between them
It is very preferred to have at least basic knowledge in ecommerce domain, B2B and B2C processes
