Software Engineer Lead

Engineering Lead

Fully remote OK (CST time zone preferred), though periodic travel (i.e. quarterly perhaps). Preference for potential employee conversions to be located near Houston, TX office, secondarily (Charlotte, LA, Hartford area)

Temp to Perm: If high-performing, employee conversions likely.

Position Summary:

This role is a hands-on design, development, and software engineering position, working across the technical stack: front-end development, backend REST API creation/integration, and message and event-based patterns. It requires the strong ability to architect, design, develop, and deliver: business applications, APIs, customer portals, platforms, and mobile applications. Your work will be grounded within two areas: leading a diverse agile team and impacting the software engineering designs across many teams. Responsibilities Include:

• Technical team leadership, focusing on practical & effective design & development.
• Training and mentorship to other software engineers.
• Accountable for large cross-functional technical deliverables, working closely with a Product Owner (PO).
• Maturing the software engineering practice through creation and adoption of the latest best practices and standards.
• Strategic application architecture, 3rd-party integrations, and engineering design review.
• Analysis and Design of Application Interfaces & Integrations.
• Analysis and Design of New Web and Mobile Applications & Refactoring existing code.
• Development of Specified Designs & Delivery of Integrated Unit Testing.
• Maturing of Design and Development practices (TDD, CI/CD, code quality/coverage, etc.)
• Knowledge of various SDLC methodologies: Agile, Iterative, Waterfall.

Primary Technical Skills: Front-end: ReactJS, Webpack, Jest, Node.JS, ECMAScript 6+ (ES6), JavaScript Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Maven, REST APIs, Microservices Data: SQL (Aurora, Snowflake, Oracle) and NoSQL (Cassandra, DynamoDB) Tools: GitHub/Git, OpenAPI/Swagger, Visio, Jira, Confluence

Secondary Technical Skills: Containerization: PaaS (PCF), CaaS (Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes/AWS EKS, AWS Fargate), Serverless (AWS Lambda) Cloud: AWS (S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, ElastiCache, SQS/MQS/Kafka, SNS, RDS), Apigee Security: Oauth2, SSO/IAM (Okta, AWS Cognito/IAM, Active Directory)

Position Requirements: The Ideal Candidate will have:

• Strong technical team leadership to drive architecture, design, and development tasks.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate best practices and standards to more junior software engineers and ensure adherence to them.
• Hands-on working knowledge with APIs/microservices, microsites, and cloud native development.
• Strong ability to learn any programming language, frameworks, technologies, etc.

10+ years

• Hands-on experience: HTML/CSS/JavaScript and (Java, C#/.NET, Python)
• Strong Object-Oriented Analysis & Design experience

5+ years

• Hands-on working with Java Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot for API/microservices.
• Hands-on experience working with JavaScript Front-End Engineering Frameworks: ReactJS.
• Hands-on working knowledge with Relational Databases (SQL) and/or NoSQL.
• Hands-on troubleshooting/problem solving experience, especially in cloud stacks.
• Hands-on utilizing local deployment-based DevOps and CI/CD toolchains.
• Hands-on creating engineering-grounded designs and architectural solutions.

Preferred/Plus Experience:

• Hands-on engineering breadth and depth in multiple frameworks/languages for Front-end (React, Angular, Vue) and API/microservices (Java/JSB, Python/Flask, Node/Express).
• Hands-on with BI/Reporting tools (PowerBI).
• Hands-on mobile app development for phones and tablets (Objective C/Swift, Java Android, Ionic/Cordova, React Native, Flutter).
• Hands-on model development using popular data science languages (Python, R).
• Hands-on working with Machine Learning (ML)/AI frameworks or tools (Jupyter Notebooks, Keras, AWS SageMaker).
• Hands-on implementing solutions with AWS.
• Experience with automated test tools (Selenium, Karate).
• Experience with data engineering, data modeling, and ETL (Talend).
• Experience with legacy technology transformation (Oracle PL/SQL, VB.NET, ASP.NET).
• Experience working in: Group/Institutional Retirement, Individual Retirement, Wealth Management, other Financial Services.