Lead Engineer

As Lead Software Engineer, you drive technical initiatives, lead software development projects, and ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions. ​
What You’ll Do​
Lead and manage software development initiatives, ensuring on-time delivery and quality standards.​
Drive technical initiatives that improve our engineering practices.​
Mentor and coach engineering team members, promoting their professional growth.​
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide technical insights.​
Represent the engineering team in cross-area meetings.​
Participate in the recruitment and onboarding process to build a strong engineering team​
Coach engineers to help them pursue their career aspirations and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.​
Represent the product team in larger forums, effectively communicating development statuses, challenges, and requirements to a broader audience.​
Collaborate with the Engineering Manager to ascertain that the team possesses the requisite competencies for delivering on committed objectives.​
Engage at the value stream level to ensure alignment of technical efforts with organizational objectives and value delivery.​
Serve as the representative from the designated technical area in release management activities, bridging gaps, and proposing approaches to ensure seamless software delivery.​
Take ownership and drive tasks within the Community of Practice (CoP), promoting a culture of shared learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.​
Design systems that meet the non-functional requirements, i.e. requirements on performance, availability, security, compliance, scalability, efficiency and maintainability following the architecture design, principles and guidelines provided by Solution Architects.​
Align stakeholders on architectural decisions and design patterns​
Use patterns and best practices to integrate different systems and technologies to work together effectively​
Plan and implement upgrades and new technologies​
Advise teams on Infrastructure Cost Management​
Accountable for Incorporating security practices into the DevOps workflow. Promoting a culture of secured application development - DevSecOps ​
Accountable for applying threat modeling methodologies ​
Accountable to perform code reviews with security threats in mind and address any security incidence with a sense of urgency​
Address process deviations and enable security patches for third party libraries​
Collaborate with security teams for expert guidance and consultation​
Define and drive the long-term vision for DevOps practices and operational excellence.​
Develop and implement strategic initiatives to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.​
Provide technical leadership in designing highly complex, scalable, and resilient systems.​
Oversee the implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects.​
Drive innovation in automation, monitoring, and incident management.​
Collaborate with other senior leaders to align technology strategy with business objectives​
Design and implement Service Level Objectives (SLO’s) and Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)​
Support in Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective establishment.​

Who You Are
Applicable working experience or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Advanced certifications in project management or relevant technologies are a plus.​
Solid experience with modern programming languages and frameworks.
Strong understanding of database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL databases.​
Expertise in version control systems, such as Git, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.​
Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies, with experience leading Agile teams.​
Strong leadership and mentorship skills with the ability to foster a positive and collaborative team environment.​
Experience in people management, including hiring, onboarding, and performance evaluations. ​
Ability to drive innovation and improvements in engineering practices within the team and organization.​
Solid experience in designing and architecting systems and applications.​
Understanding of architecture patterns and frameworks​.