Lead Software Engineer

We welcome individual candidate and Corp-to-Corp (CTC) resume submissions.

6-month contract

Remote

Our client is seeking a talented and versatile Software Engineering to play a critical role in providing exceptional customer experiences with our UI Platform Team.

This position will collaborate with cross-functional teams to incrementally deliver high-quality software in an agile environment.

Convertibility to full-time of any candidate requires the candidate to reside within an approximate 50-mile radius of the following corporate locations : Wilmington, DE / Baltimore, MD / Charlotte, NC / Dallas, TX / New York, NY and Evansville, IN.

Responsibilities :

• Lead development and maintenance of complex web-based applications & enterprise systems based on Typescript, Angular, NodeJS, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails.
• Develop target state technology that modernizes core lending platform services leveraging GraphQL with Apollo Client, Server, and Router, BPMN using Camunda v8, and Event-Driven Architecture using Kafka on AWS.
• Be willing to take a position to advance design and implementation decisions. Capable of principled pushback with both peers and superiors.
• Continuously enhance and optimize code quality, scalability, security, and performance.
• Create clean, maintainable, and well-documented code adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Write automated tests and conduct thorough testing to deliver high-quality, shippable software every sprint.
• Collaborate with product owners, user experience designers, and other team members contributing to the product development process, actively participate in discussions and development ceremonies, propose technical solutions, and translate them into working software.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to deploy and maintain applications into the Production environment.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve development processes and skills.

Requirements :

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and / or work experience.
• Expert with full-stack software engineering with 7+ years of hands-on experience directly delivering maintainable high-quality software.
• More than 3 years of hands-on experience and proficiency with modern web application development technologies including Typescript, React / Angular, NodeJS, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails.
• More than 3 years of hands-on experience and proficiency with SQL, no-SQL, and in-memory databases. Postgres experience preferred.
• More than 3 years of hands-on experience and proficiency with cloud platforms, preferably Amazon Web Services.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience and proficiency developing and maintaining diverse automated regressions test suites
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience and proficiency designing and developing GraphQL using Apollo Client, Server, and Router or other GraphQL server and federation implementations.
• More than 1 year of hands-on experience and proficiency designing, developing and maintaining enterprise or distributed systems using Kafka, AWS Kinesis or equivalent high throughput / brokered distributed messaging systems.
• Proven results delivering complex, enterprise scale software solutions.
• Effectively use critical thinking to reach conclusions and influence others.
• Deep understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Extensive experience delivering software solutions using Agile, lean, and iterative methods.
• Experience in guiding development of observable systems with robust metrics and alerts.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to navigate in a fast-paced environment and drive success despite ambiguity.
• Continuously learn and proactively find reasons to move forward in applying new learnings.
• Ability to travel to work our technical approaches, dependencies, and delivery commitments with the team.

We welcome your resume in PDF format.