Software Development Engineer- Lead

Job-ID29174694Reference26-24309** Will be on-site 4 days per week ** Locations: PHX or Southlake Job Description: Stock Plan Services focuses on supporting equity compensation for our B2B clients. We have multiple applications that support this effort, and our mission is to launch a consolidated platform of microsites to combine these segregated applications into a holistic user experience. While executing this goal we strive to maintain excellent customer support and deliver on sustaining engineering objectives. Fueled by a diverse team of talented team-members who continuously raise the bar on delivering best-in-class products and services to people all over the world. The successful candidate will be one who has the experience with end-to-end project technical lead experience. Expected to write well designed, testable, efficient code and ensure solutions follow specifications. Will prepare and produce releases of software components. Will support continuous improvements by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review. Supports users by developing documentation and assistance tools. Completes applications development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms. Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Effectively navigates organization structure, and culture to negotiate win-win outcomes for the company. Follows processes and operational policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Acts as advisor to peers and juniors to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems. Able to solution Experience with test-driven development or behavior driven development a bonus. Essential Functions:

• Lead the technical design, development, and implementation of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems.
• Take a Lead role coaching a scrum team in JAVA and Cloud Development platforms that includes frontend and backend technologies like Spring-boot, PCF and more.
• Ensure deliverable meets the standards with respect to code quality, unit test cases, and best coding practices for all code implementations.
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Lead development on Proof-of-Concept projects to help create reusable patterns for development.
• Participate in various agile ceremonies and appropriately lead technology solutioning across a large team space.
• Need to have experience in preparing high level design, system design document, architecture document or similar documentation and securing approvals from architect team.
• Should be independent and should have ability to lead and guide the team. Might need to coordinate with the offshore development team and tester.
• Be a security champion for the team by evaluating, guiding, and resolving vulnerability free code, eliminating security gaps, and ensuring reusability, flexibility, and performance.
• Experience with configuring automated builds and deployments with tolls such as Bamboo, Jenkins, GitHub, or Travis CI
• Preferable to have some exposure to front end design and coding experience with Angular or similar tools.
• Write unit test cases for all code implementations.
• Creating Bamboo pipelines for CI/CD into PCF environments
• Follow all guidelines for best development practices.
• Participate in all agile ceremonies and help leadership team.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree in computer science or related subject.
• 3-5 years’ experience with developing Java, Spring-Boot, Spring Framework, Cloud based development, Rest and micro services and micro-UI development.
• Experience coaching junior, staff level developers.
• Strong expertise in system design from mid-scale to enterprise application design.
• Strong ability to take proposed architecture and/or leadership goals and translate them into detailed technical design documents and Client out the solution roadmap for the engineering teams.
• Experience in the full SDLC including delivery.
• Strong ability to Design for functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, and performance.
• 1-3 years’ experience with Atlassian tool suites Bitbucket, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence
• Experience using IDE and GIT repositories for code management.
• Strong analytical, communication and problem resolution skills

Other Focus Areas:

• Team Collaboration: Partner with Product Owner, SME, and Business Analyst to brainstorm, discuss learning experiences, and present solutions.
• Learning Activities: Participate in facilitated training, team discussions and events, individual assessments and activities, senior leader meetings, and on-the-job training.
• Team Technical Leadership: Receive regular feedback from your leader, participate in career-related discussions, and provide your own feedback on resources and ensuring building formidable team.
• Strengths Application: Learn about yourself and how to apply your unique strengths, abilities, and goals to the work you do as part of Schwab’s ‘strengths-based’ culture.

Personal Characteristics

• Shows commitment, high ethical standards, and integrity.
• Inquisitive, analytical, strategic thinking, initiative-taking and solutions-oriented.
• High-energy, positive, entrepreneurial in spirit while purposeful.
• Initiative-taker takes initiative and can work independently.
• Well-organized and disciplined with high diligence.
• Direct, plain-spoken; conveys a genuine/authentic demeanor.
• Effective written communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

What you will learn:

• You will gain a unique exposure to Schwab’s Technology teams.
• You will gain experience developing and implementing code.
• You will gain experience with a large investment management firm serving individuals, trusts, retirement plans, foundations, and endowments.
• Opportunities to research, create and present on process and/or technology improvements.

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”