Senior Lead Software Engineer

Description

The Senior Lead Software Engineer is responsible for generating creative solutions to address highly complex and critical issues to current applications and/or to create new solutions that address clients’ needs.  The Senior Lead Software Engineer is key team player who will take ownership of issues and problems and see them through to a successful resolution exercising judgement with little direction or guidance.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in technical design of new applications and existing system enhancements.
• Provide high-level analysis and design to address and create well-integrated application systems.
• Create clear and concise program specifications that will enable Software Engineers to code the program with minimal additional guidance.
• Develop highly complex and critical new application solutions and enhance existing solutions by coding system features according to system designs.
• Lead team to meet the goals of assigned projects (e.g. best practice initiatives, developing a new solution to address a never before seen client request, etc.).  
• This involves providing technical project leadership for highly complex solutions; driving technical direction in partnership with architects, senior leadership, etc.
• Provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff to ensure bugs to existing applications are fixed and/or to clear up operational deficiencies in both previously released software and software slated for future release.
• Assure program, module and system integrity through thorough testing and adherence to company standards and procedures.
• Lead phases of the software development life cycle, including research, design, analysis, requirements, implementation, test automation, and maintenance.
• Utilize new technologies and tools to modify products and provide integration with applications developed internally and externally.
• Prepare and modify program and system documentation.
• Provide guidance to less experienced team members to ensure knowledge transfer and training are successfully meeting department goals.
• Demonstrate the willingness to take any project and successfully implement it with little or no help from more senior resources.
• Demonstrate a high degree of skill, efficiency and be a leader to less experienced development staff.
• Develop programs that are highly complex in nature, adhering to established departmental standards.
• Learn and implement new technologies and architectures within a reasonably quick timeframe while producing and testing high quality software.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of software development practices, concepts, and technologies obtained through formal training and work experience.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of required programming languages.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of the technical/business environment.
• Effectively partner, communicate, and negotiate with business analyst, development and support groups in order to gather and communicate business requirements.
• Work on individual programs that are part of a much larger application.
• Adapt to changing products and technologies.
• Fix bugs in existing, often unfamiliar programs, under considerable time constraints.
• Manage and prioritize often conflicting tasks and interruptions so as to minimize their impact on the current deadlines and workload. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or comparable work experience.
• Typically ten or more years of software development experience with database technology.
• Demonstrated expert knowledge of software development practices, computer science theory, and understanding of relevant technologies.
• Relevant Technologies:
  PHP Native
  JavaScript / NodeJS
  AWS
  MySQL
  Java / Kotlin
  Obj C / Swift
  Docker
  Apache Server
  OpenAPI
  Harness