Lead Software Engineer (Mi Banco)

Job Type

Full-Time

General Description

As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll make highly visible enhancements to our platform by maintaining and building new features, as well as integrating several of our internal systems into one cohesive platform. You’ll provide mentorship to engineers in and out of your team, drive and improve our development process, and architect and deploy new services and systems that scale. You are comfortable learning and working with a variety of languages and tools (we use Java, Python, JavaScript, and React) to support technical and strategic outcomes.

Our Engineering department is made up of cross functional Agile development teams that deploy solutions to the cloud. You’ll tackle some of the most difficult challenges scaling a digital banking by developing creative and intuitive features that maximize value and efficiency across the organization.

Our teams will lean on your expertise for best practices in design patterns, code quality, testing, and innovation to keep our commitment of always putting our customers first.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with a team of Product Owners, Quality Engineers, User Experience Designers and Developers to deliver exceptional software.
• Thoroughly understand the context of current architecture and any technical pain points to begin formulating architectural solutions.
• Build, maintain, and leverage internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives.
• Deliver clean code and thoughtful, insightful code reviews that helps level up our product and your team.
• Design and implement process improvements that positively impact the team and broader engineering department.
• Mentor others within the department, playing an active role in elevating the skill sets of those you work with.
• Design and take ownership of new components of our APIs and platform, working with the leadership team and product to come up with technical solutions to our key business needs.
• Provide status to various key stakeholders related to progress, risk, issues, decisions, etc.
• Hold regular technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects.
• Research and evaluate software technology options and weigh the cost/benefit analysis.
• Improve your team’s quality and effectiveness.
• Draw out software development plans for engineers.
• Lead a chapter or a guild.
• Troubleshoot application integration issues with cross-functional teams

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in REST architecture for web services.
• 7+ years of experience with OO design/ skills.
• 7+ years of experience building successful production systems.
• Experience driving technology work e.g. development/configuration, infrastructure/cloud, testing, DevOps, etc.
• Strong track record of agile technology delivery with focus on architecture and data platform delivery
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and collaborating with other business segments to achieve business outcomes
• Large-scale experience in software development, scripting, and project management
• Extensive experience in using system monitoring tools and automated testing frameworks
• Programming languages such as Python, C++, as well as Java/J2EE platform
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality.
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to head off obstacles proactively.

Education

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