About the job

• You are an excellent communicator, and able to negotiate complex conversations with scattered stakeholder audiences.
• You are a player-coach who is still interested in honing your technical and leadership skills while helping your team develop cutting-edge technology.
• You are comfortable operating in a cross-functional team interfacing with executive leadership, and translating business objectives into concrete technical requirements.
• You are a technical and architectural leader in your space, and you are continually learning new disciplines.
• You have an in-depth or on the path to learning the best DevOps and DevSecOps practices.
• You are continually preaching defensive programming, and you are capably codifying best engineering practices.

What you'll be doing

• Own development of new products and services end-to-end.
• Provide technical direction within your team.
• Establish and execute short and long-term architectural roadmaps for the business.
• Continue to innovate on the framework to support delivery programs worldwide.
• Manage a development team focused on creating complex back-end infrastructure and integrations.
• Drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the business platform while keeping an extremely high bar for customer trust, performance, and availability.

Your Background

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
• 8+ years of professional experience in software development/management
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep hands-on technical expertise (TypeScript+NodeJS, DevOps, GCP, CloudRun, MySQL, PHP+Laravel, ReactJS)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong business and technical vision
• Strong analytical skills with a passion for working with structured data sets
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time
• Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions