Description:
- Supports product discovery and is explicitly responsible, in conjunction with Solution Architects, to help the Product Manager and the team discover strong solutions.
- Supports product delivery by building, testing and releasing production quality software utilizing best engineering practices.
- Explicitly owns delivery from a technical perspective within their team.
- Takes ownership and responsibility of the technical architecture of the team’s deliverables.
- Liaises with the Product Manager and other stakeholders, negotiating requirements and outlining proposals for new system behaviour, including benefits, limitations and risks, as well as mitigations for the latter.
- Ensures that technical decisions related to the team’s deliverables are aligned with the requirements of the business, and satisfy the requirements of all stakeholders.
- Actively contributes to and oversees implementation of the architecture of the team’s deliverables. The individual is expected to contribute to the actual coding of the deliverables.
- Assists in the evaluation and establishment of team standards for software engineering processes.
- Drives and actively contributes towards the establishment, measurement and relentless improvement of key metrics within their team.
- Recommends and implements ideas to improve processes and engineering team efficiency and output; assists in developing and executing automation strategies and processes.
- Handles people management responsibilities for the Software Engineers working on their team, such as onboarding, holding regular 1-1’s, providing continuous performance feedback, and enabling team and individual growth from onboarding to ongoing learning and development.
- Advises on and assists with hiring and performance management.
Requirements:
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Very good communication & presentation abilities, and able to communicate complex technical concepts, ideas and solutions to a broad range of audiences.
- Ensures clarity and visibility for all stakeholders into work being done at all times.
- Ability to influence others and identify best solutions among many stakeholders.
- A technical mindset with great attention to detail and strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- A team player with demonstrated initiative.
- High quality organizational and team leadership skills that focus on inspiration and influence.
- Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience developing enterprise level software applications, including building distributed, microservice-style and cloud-based application architectures.
- A Java guru, with extensive knowledge and experience of associated technologies such as the Spring framework.
- Strong foundations and experience in XP, test-driven development including unit, application and integration testing, pair programming, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and related techniques.
- Lead complex programming tasks and perform code reviews.
- Good understanding of software quality assurance principles with a passion for quality, and knowledge of what it takes to ship high quality code.
- Dedicated to speed of delivery without compromising quality.
- Hands-on experience designing and architecting software solutions.
- Good knowledge of software and application design and architecture patterns, and modeling methods such as UML.
- Ability to conceptualize end-to-end system components across a wide range of technologies and translate into architectural design patterns for implementation.
- Proven ability to design for ""ilities"" across distributed systems (scalability, security, reusability, maintainability, extensibility, testability, reliability, etc.).
- Ability to grasp and quickly become productive in an existing design.
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to context switch while still delivering on commitments.
- Passion for understanding, following industry trends, and how those trends can influence the company.