Lead Staff Software Engineer

This role truly offers the best of both worlds - a chance to sharpen your technical prowess and grow your people management skills. Success here means being the best Individual Contributor on the team, thus leading by example and setting the technical bar for the entire team. The work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission includes the following:

Technical leadership

• Actively design and code yourself, as well as review others
• Deliver meaningful technical and hands-on contributions to the team's objectives.
• Understand strategic business priorities and communicate with the team on how their work fits into the roadmap.

Project level processes and execution

• Collaborate with the PM (product management) team to develop the roadmap and MVP plans.
• Develop execution plans (resources, milestones, and timelines) for the roadmaps.
• Continuously analyze and optimize team efficiency.
• Establish and deliver on team commitments.
• Measure and maintain/improve the quality of the team's contributions.
• Communicate important developments and changes to area leadership and other stakeholders.

People management

• Manage a small team.
• Help team members develop career growth plans.
• Give regular and effective feedback.
• Hold weekly 1:1 meetings with direct reports.
• Annual reviews and compensation recommendations.

We are a global team with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your own and be well-versed in building from common ground to value, seek out, and foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity.

Who you are:

Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together (though we do that well, too). We take pride in our engineers being trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do not have to meet all the requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role:

• You have a solid understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), DevOps, and agile methodologies.
• You have a solid understanding cloud computing.
• You have a solid understanding of design patterns and software architecture design patterns.
• You have experience in contributing to professional growth of software engineers.
• You have experience in providing technical and project leadership of initiatives involving multiple teams.
• You have experience in leading and completing projects with a high degree of technical ambiguity.
• You have experience in working with non-technical stakeholders.
• You have experience in hiring and conducting interviews.
• You are proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL, Scala, Typescript/JavaScript.
• You have 11+ years of software development engineering experience.
• You have 1+ years of experience directly managing people.
• You have a Bachelor’s/Master’s level degree in computer science or relevant engineering-related field or equivalent experience. Not everyone has the same level of access to opportunities. What is most important to us is what and how you can contribute, which is why our consideration is not limited by the level of education you have.
• You have additional nice-to-have experience in the following areas: distributed systems, building micro-services, knowledge of Kubernetes.