Tech Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Tech Lead Software Engineer role at DemandScience. We are seeking a Team Lead Software Engineer to join our team and deliver high-quality software solutions while maintaining existing systems. The candidate should aim to provide a best-in-class user experience and contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of software applications.

The candidate is expected to ensure the on-time delivery of high-quality software projects in accordance with established best practices. They should possess a strong commitment to continuous learning and remain current with the latest technological advancements. Additionally, they are encouraged to actively participate in the recruitment of developers and to continually enhance the recruitment processes.

Essential Job Functions – What You’ll Do

• Lead the development team with an emphasis on delivery and maintaining team morale. Contribute to setting and upholding development standards and best practices, ensuring compliance among developers. Manage developers directly within their delivery team. Identify individual strengths and weaknesses, supporting skill development through personalized plans. Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, set objectives, and evaluate probation periods. Delegate development tasks to team members.
• Safeguard the integrity of the software, managing technical debt through prevention and resolution when feasible. Take ownership of the product and contributions to its development.
• Develop services and products that provide high volume, low latency, high availability, robust performance, and security. Emphasize critical details and prioritize incremental releases. Support the design, implementation, and testing of new features.
• Engage in requirements refinement discussions. Review technical specifications and architecture diagrams created by the Architect or Principal. Support changes, capacity planning, and emergency response as an expert in the runtime environment and business logic behavior.
• Coach / mentor junior developers to understand architecture and specifications. Pair program on complex items, minimize risk, and share skills. Write code based on company coding practices and industry standards.
• Maintain comprehensive automated testing coverage. Generate unit tests as part of the development process to improve code quality. Conduct peer code reviews and assist in developing and maintaining CI/CD infrastructure within the team.
• Participate in deployment ownership, alerting requirements, and product support. Engage in agile ceremonies (sprint refinement, planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups) and contribute ideas to drive team progress.
• Prepare comprehensive code documentation, including API details and data dictionaries. Suggest enhancements and present ideas and solutions. Communicate findings effectively to leadership.

Backend Specific Essential Functions

• Design and build domain-driven APIs for internal and external use.
• Support optimal API practices and foster adoption of innovative API platforms and technologies.
• Identify stream and event-driven architecture requirements and implement them where appropriate.
• Design and develop components using Golang and Java, in collaboration with backend platforms.

Frontend Specific Essential Functions

• Design and build components in ReactJS, collaborating with frontend platforms.

Essential Qualifications – What You’ll Need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years' experience in developing highly scalable REST microservices.
• 7+ years of experience with B2B SaaS enterprise applications with a large user base.
• 7+ years of mobile and/or desktop application development.
• 7+ years working with pub/sub messaging systems (Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ).
• 7+ years of automation testing (Unit, BDD, and/or TDD).
• AWS Certified Developer.

Backend Specific Work Experience

• 7+ years Java, Golang, Ruby, Postgres, Redis, AWS.
• 7+ years of commercial Java development experience.
• 7+ years of Core Java JVM, collections, generics, functional programming; Spring Framework (Boot, Core, Data).
• 7+ years of microservice backend architecture.
• 7+ years building and maintaining high-quality, scalable API solutions for enterprise web applications and/or data platforms.

Frontend Specific Work Experience

• 7+ years Angular, ReactJS, TypeScript, Redux, AWS; 7+ years Next.js; 7+ years of micro-frontend architecture.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to mentor other members with best design and coding practices.
• High proficiency in design principles and microservices.
• Excellent design and architecture skills in OO software technologies.
• Practical knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience building and deploying large-scale systems.
• Production experience deploying customer-facing applications with extensive responsibilities across engineering lifecycle.
• Experience with CI/CD environments.
• Experience with pub/sub messaging systems (Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.).
• DevOps experience (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker).
• Experience with automated testing and monitoring/logging (Splunk, New Relic).
• Strong collaboration, ownership mindset, and adaptability.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and long-term usability focus.
• Professional and discreet with managerial matters.

Backend Specific Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Experience with SQL, Entity Framework, and/or NoSQL solutions.

Frontend Specific Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, Tailwind).

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Information Technology

• Technology, Information and Media and Software Development