Lead Software Engineer

Loading... The Lead Software Engineer position reports to the Sr. Director, Software Engineering, and is responsible for the development and support of applications leveraging his/her expertise and knowledge of multiple systems/customer areas to help build a robust, scalable and reliable platform.You will be a part of an experienced engineering team and work with passionate leaders on challenging topics.The ideal candidate will possess a good balance of technology and people management skills; has a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability and fully own the delivery of the product.As Lead Software Engineer, you will:Perform coding/configuration, testing, implementation and documentation on solutions developed including design specifications.Perform applications programming activities, to include code, test, debug, document, maintain, and modify applications programs.Layout technical vision for the team and lead the design for the product while ensuring high-quality development.Leverage modern cloud-first technologies to create efficient and performant processes.Partner effectively and influence peers and senior leadership both within the organization.Ability to extract, analyze, and report the data.Strong attention to detail when identifying data relationships, trends, and anomalies.Thinking through long-term impacts of key design decisions and handling failure scenarios.Maintain awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability of new software tools to platform development.Serve as a coach and mentor to more junior developers to include delegating and managing tasks, as appropriate.Commit to overall deliverables with customers and/or management.Perform other duties as assigned. Requirements:2+ years' experience in building large scale distributed systems with high availability, scalability, and resilience.Experienced knowledge of maintaining and debugging live software systems. Proactively engage in the remediation of software issues related to code or solutions quality, security, and/or pattern/frameworks and software usability or end user related issues.Deep understanding of issues involved in delivering, deploying and supporting an integrated suite of products.Ability to grasp new areas; and adapt to changes.Proficient in AWS Cloud Eco System.Proficient in CI/CD process and tools preferred.Proficient in JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks preferably jQuery and React NativeProficient in PHP and other backend technologies.Proficient in Database technologies. Preference for MySQLProficient in mobile development (iOS/Android)Knowledge and experience working in payments industry preferred.An advanced understanding of processes and practices which contribute to the reliability, maintainability, security, simplicity, performance, and testability of software.Demonstrated success in defining and implementing process improvements.Participate in vendor relationship, contract management, and implementation planning.