[Remote] Lead Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ten Mile Square Technologies is a high-end technology consulting firm based in the Northern Virginia area. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead a remote-first team in greenfield development of a loan origination system for a financial institution, focusing on software development methods and technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of software engineers, software engineer in test automation (SDET), and DevOps
- Architect, design, and build a telephony integration system using Node, Apollo GraphQL, Angular or React, and a suite of AWS components including but not limited to EKS, Lambda, S3, MSK, and Aurora. The components are primarily backend systems, but some frontend development will be needed
- Design and implement GraphQL subgraphs and participate in a federated graph schema community of practice
- Define and enforce engineering best practices around code quality, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows on AWS
- Contribute as member of an Agile team and promote Agile practices
- Work with client executives and product team to translate business needs into requirements, epics, stories, and tasks
- Work with the client product team to groom the backlog, plan workstreams, plan sprints, and assign sprints and tasks to software engineers
- Work with principal engineers and the product team to help determine functional requirements for the system
- Mentor developers on the team
- Ensure technical documentation is of quality and accessible to technology team
- Proactively collaborate with the Ten Mile team on development and knowledge sharing
- Represent yourself and Ten Mile Square with integrity, expertise, and value
- Maintain the confidentiality of our clients on an ongoing basis
Skills
- 2 years of experience as a tech lead
- 3 years of experience as a senior software engineer
- 7+ years of software development experience including 3 years of TypeScript and Node
- 2 years of experience working with GraphQL
- Expertise in developing and deploying on AWS
- Expertise in SQL
- Working knowledge of at least one of the following frontend JavaScript frameworks: Angular, Ionic, React, Vue
- Full application stack development experience: front-end to persistence
- Full software lifecycle participation: requirements to post-implementation
- Linux command line
- Self-motivated to PROACTIVELY identify and solve problems
- Be passionate about what you do
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly
- Detail-oriented
- High integrity and quality of work ethic
- Excellent communication skills – within team and with clients
Benefits
- 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (including family)
- 100% company paid individual short- and long- term disability
- 100% company paid vision insurance
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