Lead Software Engineer

About the role

The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for the development and improvement of software products, working closely with other engineers to enhance the overall quality of the product. They manage processes and projects to improve efficiency within the organization or product area, influencing outcomes in cross-functional settings.

Responsibilities

• Works on complex projects requiring extensive knowledge of specialty areas and industry practices.
• Manages processes, projects, or products to improve efficiency within the organization or product area.
• Influences outcomes in cross-functional settings.
• Demonstrates solid understanding of systems and processes within job area and recommends improvements.
• Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives.
• Ensures comparison of tasks and quality of work, supporting peers to ensure the team delivers consistently.
• Has a strong understanding in computer science fundamentals, including algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, and data structures.

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.
• Seasoned contributor with extensive knowledge of specialty areas and industry practices.
• Strong system design experience.
• Strong experience in object-oriented development.
• Strong experience with cloud technologies.
• Strong experience in data storage technologies.
• Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization.
• Strong experience in DevOps and CI/CD technologies.
• Strong experience in test automation and unit testing.
• Strong experience in software security.
• FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) certification or acceptable industry equivalent certification is required upon hire or within 16 months of the start date of the assigned SIE training cohort.

Qualifications

• Excellent understanding in computer science fundamentals - Algorithm design, Problem solving, Complexity analysis and data structures.
• Engineering/Operations Excellence: Helps identify gaps between system components and designs and delivers solutions.
• Implements methods for managing and maintaining the organization’s software development environments to ensure software engineers are equipped with the tools and resources necessary to create and validate builds.
• Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results.
• Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management.
• Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals.

Skills

• Seasoned contributor with extensive knowledge of specialty areas and industry practices.
• Strong system design experience.
• Strong experience in object-oriented development.
• Strong experience with cloud technologies.
• Strong experience in data storage technologies.
• Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization.
• Strong experience in DevOps and CI/CD technologies.
• Strong experience in test automation and unit testing.
• Strong experience in software security.

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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