Lead Software Engineering

A U.S.-based company helping businesses to improve the search experience for consumers, marketers, and e-commerce sites is looking for a Lead Software Engineer. The selected candidate will be taking a leadership role while ensuring the quality of their team’s technical output. The company is determined to build the next-generation e-commerce search destination by tapping into the power of NLP. This is an amazing opportunity for developers who enjoy working with a team of world-class professionals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the engineering manager, architect, and product teams 
• Coordinate with stakeholders, including design, development, and maintenance of software code
• Perform pull requests and code reviews for coding best practices and security requirements
• Mentor team members as needed to help develop their skill sets
• Collaborate with architects in design and brainstorming sessions
• Contribute to the actual codebase as an individual contributor
• Partner with product managers to produce delivery estimates 
• Manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery
• Provide regular progress updates to and work closely with management to communicate any delivery risks or issues
• Coordinate production releases and perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs
• Mentor junior developers to increase the skill level of the team
• Ability to convey technical and conceptual ideas/topics to non-technical personnel

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 6+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer
• A minimum of 5-7+ years of experience in Python, Lambda, Elastic Search, and Kubernetes
• Prolific experience in Docker, SQS, SNS, and SQL Server
• Prior experience in data modeling, indexing, and basic performance considerations
• At least 3+ years of experience in AWS Cloud
• Experience in Gateway, EC2, ECS, Faregate using ECS, ECR, EC2 Container Service, S3, and Elastic File System
• Experience in AWS Open Search, RDS, and Application Load Balancer
• Experience in Docker, Step functions, SQS, SNS, EventHub, Dynamo DB, Document DB, CloudWatch, Secret Manager, VPN, Subnets, Security Groups, and Microservices
• Solid understanding of unit testing and test-driven development
• Prior experience in writing unit test cases
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines and working knowledge of deployment scripts
• Experience working in Git repository
• Experience working in a DevOps-focused environment 
• Advanced understanding of DevOps principles is a plus
• Strong Agile experience working in Scrum and/or Kanban models
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven leadership abilities
• Solid understanding of infrastructure design for complex enterprise-level applications
• Fluent in verbal and written English