Job responsibilities
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in development, to technically lead and support the growth of other team members.
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience.
- Demonstrated tenure of leading a team from a technical perspective
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced knowledge and experience in backend development (Java 17, Spring)
- Advanced knowledge and experience in frontend development (React & front end testing frameworks).
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Practical cloud native experience to aid with the teams adoption to AWS, however other platforms such as GCP or Azure are highly thought of
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Hands-on experience with messaging platforms (such as Kafka) is preferred, however this can be adopted and learned on the job
- Experience with Angular development, with a desire to retain into React development