Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture decisions for the team’s product
• Lead delivery and operations of the team’s product, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your team’s engineers
• We desire our lead engineers to be both leads and engineers, spending about half of their time on leading others and half contributing engineering work themselves
• Lead, mentor, and assess other staff engineers, exemplifying and teaching best practices, helping to solve knotty problems, reviewing code, and sharing stories
• Interview, select, onboard, and oversee contract engineers
• Aid in the design and delivery of products outside of your team, develop tools and processes for use outside of your team, and/or mentor other engineers or especially lead engineers outside of your team
• Guide partner-led engineering workstreams, contributing to solution design and code reviews
• Guide engineering team in adoption of Chick-fil-A software engineering standards
• Identify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches
• Drive Operational and Engineering Excellence for the DevOps team
• Gain deep understanding of business processes across Supply Chain so the team can maximize impact and operate at a high level

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalency
• Expert-level knowledge in design and programming using Python and/or Golang
• Experience designing and implementing cloud-based API’s
• Experience with SQL and data modeling
• Experience implementing application security, software design patterns, and the SDLC
• Experience developing and deploying applications with Kubernetes and AWS Cloud infrastructure
• Experience mentoring and leading a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to positively influence the engineering culture and practices in a professional environment
• 4+ years relevant work experience in a similar role

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired
• Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, Scrum discipline, or comparable software development practices
• Deep understanding of AWS technologies and cloud native architecture
• Experience with multi-region deployments and the associated complexities and tradeoffs
• Deep knowledge and experience programming with Python and Go
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and CNCF related technologies
• Experience with monitoring and alerting technologies and SRE concepts
• Experience working with an agile development methodology featuring sprints, points estimation, and daily standups
• Experience in design, data collection, and data analysis
• 7+ years relevant work experience