Senior Software Engineer - Tech Lead

Senior Software Engineer - Tech Lead

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

About the Job

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Software Engineer who cares about leading teams, delivering cutting-edge software, mentoring other people and leveraging your love for technology to drive digital excellence.

This is a new role on a highly skilled and motivated delivery team of Product Owners, Business Analysts, Software Engineers with a passion to imagine, test, build, and deploy valuable products for the company's prospects, enthusiasts, and customers. You will have the opportunity to create and lead the technical design and development of multi-platform, cross-functional, customer facing applications which will shape the digital future of Porsche.

If you are excited about leading people, driving innovation, solving problems and delivering software solutions that carry real business value, then this opportunity may be for you.

The position is based in Atlanta, GA and will be utilizing a hybrid work model with in-office days and home-office days.

Responsibilities:

The role includes, but is not limited to:

• Explore new technologies and digital trends to identify new and emerging opportunities.
• Leading teams of developers responsible for building new software and supporting existing products.
• Spearhead tech spikes and cross-functional platform evaluations.
• Work with product owners and business analysts to define projects roadmap and priorities.
• Act as a mentor and role model for younger talent to help them succeed in their career and learning path.
• Drive agile team activities such as providing guidance into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning.
• Handle the design, architecture, development, code review, and testing of key applications.
• Find creative and innovative approaches to complex problems while working, learning, and collaborating in a cross-functional agile team.
• Write high quality, and testable applications that support rapid delivery via continuous integration, delivery, and automated deployments.
• Collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines to define the technology objective and explore solution possibilities.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement novel ways to solve them.
• Design and implement scalable web service APIs.
• Define the relevant key-technologies and architecture in alignment with global Porsche initiatives.
• Help establish the local technical and architectural setup.

Skills:

• Experienced leader with a proven track record in building and managing agile development teams.
• Full stack development and delivery experience with serverless technologies such AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, etc.
• Data driven decision maker with high focus on continuous improvement.
• Hands-on knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• In-depth knowledge of new and established technologies and programming languages such as Typescript, Node, Vue.js, AWS SDKs.
• Experience with web development architecture patterns such as Jamstack.
• Proficient in microservice architecture and backend for frontend patterns.
• Experience with highly scalable, highly available systems and services.
• Experience working with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Continuous Integration, TDD, BDD, Infrastructure as Code, and e2e Test Automations.
• Knowledge of software best practice like Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain Driven Design, Encapsulation etc.
• Team player with excellent communication skills.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in software engineering, technology or similar
• Masters degree, preferred

Experience:

• 2+ years experience in leading team of developers in an agile environment
• 7+ years full stack engineering experience in a production environment
• 4+ years experience with frontend frameworks like Vue.js or Next.js
• Experience with CMS platforms such as Sitecore or Adobe Experience Manager.
• Experience in leading new technology adoption and establishing well designed architectures.
• Expert programming skills in web-based technologies
• Proficiency in Software Development Best Practices (SCM / Unit Tests)
• Deployed customer-facing software into a production environment
• Comprehensive knowledge of digital products, services and platforms
• Proficiency in test automation and accessibility requirements
• Experience with, understanding of, and interest in digital trends and new technologies
• Retail and customer service experience in the digital space is a plus
• Experience with working in a global team-set up and multi team collaboration environment

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, and climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to complete tasks in an open space environment.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• Must be able to work in an open office environment.