Sr Software Developer

Team Lead Developer

This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills. Developers in the Team Lead position will lead a dev team, help coordinate the day-to-day activities of various team members, assist team with roadblocks, and lead planning sessions. This developer will work closely with the team’s product owner to become a subject matter expert (SME) for the domain. They will also serve as individual contributors on the dev team, taking on tasks for both technical design and development.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead a cross functional, agile development team including members from development, quality assurance, and business analysts
• Serve as technical SME for a particular domain within the overall platform
• Provide guidance and mentoring including pair programming, code reviews, demos, group/1:1 coaching, and career development planning
• Design system features to meet business objectives while fitting into the enterprise platform ecosystem
• Contribute to cross-team platform design decisions
• Collaborate with Product team to ensure that requirements are understood, and short-term and long-term business objectives are met
• Follow department-wide technical, process, and quality standards while contributing to their improvement
• Participate in staffing decisions including interviews and hiring
• Take a lead role in creating technical documentation and content, ensuring that knowledge is transferred across the team
• Deliver regular and frequent code contributions aligned with User Stories and sprint goals
• Guide the team regarding unit testing; collaborate closely with QA leadership to guarantee successful functional and regression testing of all features
• Ensure that the team achieves system performance goals
• Lead the dev team to think with a security first mindset
• Take ownership of problems and solutions, being proactive to ensure success
• Provide innovative problem-solving skills, thinking outside the box
• Occasional travel to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PA area for strategy meetings (several times per year)
• Normal working hours based on Eastern US time

Requirements

Required Education and Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/related field or equivalent working experience
• 10+ years of experience as a software developer, primarily using C# with 2+ years operating as a Team/Technical Lead
• Excellent programming, debugging, and troubleshooting skills with C# and.NET
• 3+ years of experience leading development teams
• Experience with TypeScript and SPA frameworks (Angular, React, etc.)
• Enterprise level system architecture experience, designing and delivering RESTful APIs, integrations, and complex business processes
• Enterprise level design and configuration of cloud services including serverless, data storage, messaging, logging, etc., preferably with Azure
• Experience with design and implementation of both monolithic and microservice architectures
• Experience designing reliable and performant data storage solutions and schemas utilizing cloud technologies including SQL DBs, Document DBs, and unstructured data
• Experience with creating CI/CD pipelines supporting Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, collaboration capabilities, and attention to detail
• Experience working on large software development projects while collaborating across multiple agile teams

Preferred Knowledge and Experience:

• Commercial Property and Casualty insurance experience
• Practical working knowledge of ASP.NET MVC, and.