Position Summary:

We are seeking a Team Lead Software Engineer to join our team and deliver high-quality software solutions while maintaining existing systems. The ideal candidate should aim to provide a best-in-class user experience and contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of software applications.

The candidate is expected to ensure the on-time delivery of high-quality software projects in accordance with established best practices. They should possess a strong commitment to continuous learning and remain current with the latest technological advancements. Additionally, they are encouraged to actively participate in the recruitment of developers and to continually enhance the recruitment processes.

Essential Job Functions “What You’ll Do”:

• Lead the development team with an emphasis on delivery and maintaining team morale. Contribute to setting and upholding development standards and best practices, ensuring compliance among developers. Manage developers directly within their delivery team. Identify individual strengths and weaknesses, supporting skill development through personalized plans. Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, set objectives, and evaluate probation periods. Delegate development tasks to team members.
• Responsible for safeguarding the integrity of the software, ensuring effective management of technical debt through prevention and resolution whenever feasible. Take ownership of the product and your contributions to its development.
• Develop services and products that consistently provide high volume, low latency, high availability, robust performance, and security. Emphasize critical details and prioritize incremental releases. Support the design, implementation, and testing of new features.
• Engage actively in requirements refinement discussions. Review technical specifications and architecture diagrams created by the Architect or Principal. Support change management, capacity planning, and emergency response efforts as an expert in the runtime environment and business logic behaviour.
• Coach / Mentor junior developers to understand the architecture and technical specifications. Pair program on complex items, minimizing risk and enhancing exchange of skills. Write code based on the company's coding best practices and industry standards.
• Maintain comprehensive automated testing coverage. Generate unit tests as an integral component of the development process to enhance code quality. Conduct peer code reviews, including group open reviews. Assist in developing and maintaining your team's CI/CD infrastructure.
• Participation and ownership were essential for deployment, overseeing the team's product and alerting requirements, and implementation. Engagement in product support and bug resolution was also required. Active involvement in all agile ceremonies, including sprint refinement, planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups, was expected. Additionally, contributing ideas to facilitate the team's progress was encouraged.
• Prepare comprehensive code documentation, including API details and data dictionaries. Suggest enhancements and propose innovative ideas and solutions. Communicate findings effectively to leadership.

Backend Specific Essential Functions:

• Design and build domain-driven APIs for both internal and external usage.
• Supports optimal API practices and encourages the adoption of innovative API platforms and technologies.
• Builds API-driven data flows.
• Identifies stream and event-driven architecture requirements and implements them where appropriate.
• Design and develop components utilizing Golang and Java, in close collaboration with our backend platforms.

Frontend Specific Essential Functions:

• Design and build components in ReactJS, working closely with our frontend platforms.

Essential Qualifications “What You’ll Need”:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years' experience in developing highly scalable REST microservices.
• 7+ years of B2B SaaS enterprise applications with a large user base.
• 7+ years of mobile and/or desktop application development.
• 7+ years working with pub/sub messaging systems Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ
• 7+ years of Automation testing generating Unit, BDD Behaviour-driven development) and/or TDD Test-driven development).
• AWS Certified Developer

Backend Specific Work Experience

• 7+ years Java, Golang, Ruby, Snowflake PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS.
• 7+ years of commercial Java development experience.
• 7+ years of Core Java JVM, collections, generics, functional programming…), Spring Framework and associated projects Boot, Core, Data…)
• 7+ years of micro-service backend architecture.
• 7+ years building and maintaining high-quality, scalable API solutions for enterprise web applications and/or data platforms

Frontend Specific Work Experience

• 7+ years Angular, ReactJS, TypeScript, Redux, AWS.
• 7+ years NextJS framework.
• 7+ years of micro-frontend architecture

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities - All

• Line Management experience
• Ability to mentor other members with the best design and coding practices.
• High degree of proficiency in Design Principles and Microservices.
• Production AWS hands-on experience.
• Excellent design and architecture skills in OO software technologies.
• Practical knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Build and deploy large-scale systems.
• Extensive production experience in developing and deploying customer-facing applications that serve thousands of users, encompassing software engineering architecture, component design, coding, unit testing, behaviour-driven development BDD, test-driven development TDD, documentation, and deployment. Possesses professional-level communication skills with the ability to effectively convey ideas to a diverse audience with various specializations.
• Production experience working with CI/CD environments is required.
• Experience working with pub/sub/messaging systems Kafka, ActiveMQ…)
• Experience in DevOps activities AWS, k8s, Terraform, Docker…)
• Experience in automated software testing through unit/functional/ integration test suites.
• Experience with monitoring & logging technologies Splunk, New Relic…)
• Push technologies Websockets)
• Collaborative attitude, team player, friendly, passionate, and flexible to learn new tools and skillsets.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.
• Strong sense of ownership and focus on long-term usability and extensibility.
• Strong experience solving complex problems.
• Ability to work toward goals, meet deadlines, and contribute positively to the team environment.
• They are not afraid to work outside of their comfort zone and are aware of the potential benefits that can be gained even without extensive knowledge of the systems or people.
• Professional and discreet with managerial matters
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office products.

Backend Specific Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Experience with SQL, Entity Framework, and/or NOSQL solutions.

Frontend Specific Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and CSS frameworks (such as Bootstrap and Tailwind).

THE GOOD STUFF!

We embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage our amazing team members at DemandScience to bring their authentic, fun selves to work every day. We offer a culture of innovation, mutual respect, support, and transparency. The competitive and comprehensive benefits our team members enjoy are designed to ensure you and your family members are healthy. Check this out!

• Paid time off
• Medical provided through HMO
• Life Insurance
• Peer-Appreciation Program
• Employee Referral Program
• A fast-paced, innovative culture with an open and collaborative environment, where you can make an impact.
• Join a great organization that cares about employees!

DemandScience is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

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Find out more at https://demandscience.com/careers/#join-the-team