Job Title: Engineering Lead Developer Location: Remote Duration: 5 Months
Project Overview: The Engineering Lead will: Work with Product Engineering Manager, Product Architect, and product managers to provide architecture solutions and leadership at the product component level. You will oversee the implementation of software that achieves the goals of the architecture in their area. You will do this by contributing to the following breakdown of general responsibilities: 70% Architecture & Development: • Create, document, implement, and oversee the long-term vision, architecture, and initiatives in their assigned area • Estimate software development requirements, propose alternatives and prioritize development tasks for a given project • Ensure high level requirements from project stakeholders are satisfied, complete and testable • Review code and documents for their assigned area to ensure designs and coding are holistic • Assess, oversee and deliver the technical delivery of high-quality projects and products • Design, code, maintain, and assess items in their assigned area taking into account performance, maintainability/complexity, market trends and innovation, controlling costs, system robustness and scalability, and long-term quality initiatives • Point person accountable for their assigned area that will capture, summarize, and escalate issues as necessary for resolution and awareness 15% Engineering Leadership: • Strategic and tactical responsibility on a daily basis for developing and enhancing the technical architecture and projects of assigned area and ensuring user needs are met • Coordinate and unify the work of architects and team members through the software implementation process • Assist as necessary with defining roles and assigning workloads for their area of responsibility • Liaison for numerous functional areas within the organization • Provide technical mentoring to developers, senior developers, and software architects within a domain or project, or as assigned • Proactively design training opportunities that align with group goals • Induct new members for assigned projects • Proactively foster collaboration among technical teams 5% Process and Quality Improvement Responsibility: • Participate in and initiate group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence • Participate in and monitor the effectiveness of requirements, design, code, unit test and QA test case reviews and inspections • Assess and oversee the technical delivery of projects to ensure best practices are followed • Understand, support and improve the OSSP • Report any potential opportunities regarding assigned domain, other domains, or client opportunities 5% Defect and Backlog Review: • Triage, assign, and monitor new QA or pre-production defects and parking lot items. • Assist as required on urgent production defects 5% Other duties as assigned
Required Education and Experience: • Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline • 6+ years of relevant software development experience including creating business applications with relational database systems. Angular JS and .NET are required • Current technology stack: Java, JPA, Hibernate, Web Services (REST/SOAP), AngularJS • Experience in OOAD, design patterns, and UML • 1+ years experience in software architecture • 1+ years experience in technical leadership • 1+ years experience in programmatic interaction with relational database systems • 1+ years production support experience • 2+ years Agile experience
Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • Ability to understand the philosophy of architecture • Experience providing technical leadership to a team • Experience in creating design documents and performing code reviews • Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools • Proven ability to quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications • Ability to think technically and analytically • Ability to lead and/or coordinate multiple projects, enhancements, defects or initiatives simultaneously • Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations • Must have strong time management and project management skills including the ability to work well under pressure, plan and set priorities, make decisions and set direction, adapt to change, and meet established timelines. • Ability to effectively manage, measure, and continuously improve working performance and quality of teams and individuals • Continuous expansion of knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools • Experience in application performance management and performance tuning • Enterprise knowledge of business and platforms across systems within our core technology service model • Must develop effective relationships with customers and work well within a team • Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented • Must have a positive and energetic demeanor • Effective written and verbal communication skills • Creative problem-solving skills • Must have mentoring and training skills
Experience with some or all of the following tools (Required): • .NET – C# (6+ years) • REST services (6+ years) • SQL (5+ years) • AngularJS (and other Javascript frameworks) (4+ years) • Azure Cloud (3+ years) • OOAD design • Agile development (2-3 years) • Design patterns • SOA • Gauge and Selenium • Splunk and New Relic
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Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation. At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $75.00/hr.
