Lead Full Stack Developer

The Lead Software Engineer will be a part of an agile product team collaborating with the technology delivery manager (TDM), digital product managers (DPM), and other product team members to accurately capture stakeholder requests and system specifications, translating them into high quality systems solving real business problems within the organization.Essential Duties and Responsibilities : The incumbent consults with enterprise architects to ensure that the engineering realization is in accordance with enterprise architecture principles and software development best practices. As part of an agile team, the incumbent will collaborate with testers and other developers to develop creative high-quality solutions.

• As part of an agile team, completes complex software development work involving creative application design, coding, and debugging methods and techniques.
• Work with the testers to ensure that all software components are tested adequately and participates in quality assurance testing as the IT workload requires.
• Provides guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve project and program objectives
• Manages engineering risks by proactively tracking and communicating issues, and devising methods to mitigate them.
• Leads architecture and design discussions. Interfaces with other project and program areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
• Provides input to the TDM and DPM in creation of the product roadmap with high level estimates
• Maintains a working knowledge of new technology and new software development best practices and trends.
• Leads and mentors junior engineers on the product team
• Python development experience with frameworks like Django and Flask is a plus
• Experience in multiple infrastructure and application domains cloud, network, storage, servers, containers/Kubernetes, databases, middleware, DevOps is a plus
• Experience with DevSecOps, and Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD) solutions and tools GIT, Jenkins, Artifactory/Nexus, code analysis, quality gates, etc would be preferred but not required

• 7+ years of software development experience
• Hands on experience as a full stack developer with a demonstrated ability to deliver high quality software including front end development, backend/API development, data/database modeling and design, test driven development, automated testing
• Python development experience with frameworks is a must
• Strong Javascript development experience with common frameworks like React, Angular, and Node
• Broad knowledge of software development techniques, processes, methods, and best practices
• Strong strategic decision making & long-term planning abilities to manage resources and develop efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems
• Strong understanding of Agile development methods and its application to company technology needs
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills