Lead Software Engineer
Wilmington, DE; Baltimore, MD; Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; New York, NY; and Evansville, IN
- Convertibility of any candidate requires the candidate to reside within an approximate 50-mile radius of the following corporate locations are in Wilmington, DE / Baltimore, MD / Charlotte, NC / Dallas, TX / New York, NY and Evansville, IN
- If converted to FTE, role would be hybrid, onsite 1-2 days per week
- Contract extension and conversion to FTE possible
Note: MUST be legally authorized to work in the United States.
This role is NOT open to 3rd party providers.
SUMMARY:
- We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to support products and programs to expand capabilities within leveraging data-driven strategies to support credit decisioning services and data pipelines for analytics
- Responsibilities include supporting the architecture for a data-driven organization and overseeing the build and operation of capabilities necessary for full lifecycle data management, governance, provisioning, modeling, science, and analytics. The Lead Software Engineer is a leading voice for enabling data-driven decisioning deeply into the company products and business processes. The Lead Software Engineer engages within a team of data subject matter experts, covering the range of data-centric domains, building, governing, and operating data platforms, as well as providing embedded data professionals in product delivery teams. With the company having both on-premises and cloud-based operations, the Lead Software Engineer balances a strategy which leverages both while driving toward a cloud-first strategy, performing legacy data transformation where necessary. This role is a mentor to other developers, and responsible for guiding and directing day to day activities within a sprint, and ensuring standards and processes are followed across all projects
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
- Set and maintain design guidelines / principles, along with enforcing controls preferably through automation
- Design, develop, and model execution platform using AWS Services and open-source components
- Deploy and migrate developed workflows across different environments
- Modify and optimize existing decisioning processes
- Integrate Decisioning platform with other systems and components
- Facilitate engaging collaboration with cross-functional technology SMEs to design scalable, reliable, resilient, maintainable technical solutions
- Establish and execute appropriate testing within Credit Decisioning platforms to enable earlier and more frequent testing
- Lead the development of technically complex and highly integrated functionality, including coaching and guiding developers during development cycles, to ensure requirements are being met within defined timelines
- Partner with Product Management to ensure design, engineering and implementation meets business needs
- Utilize and drive continued adoption of engineering best practices using modern SDLC that enables CI/CD and favors automation, auditability, automated testing, and cloud native architectures
- Think creatively and insist on continuous improvement; generate new ideas and approaches to implement the ideas
- Use metrics to drive continuous improvements in quality, efficiency, and speed
WHAT WE WILL WANT YOU TO DO:
- Lead development and maintenance of complex web-based applications & enterprise systems based on Typescript, Angular, NodeJS
- Develop target state technology that modernizes core lending platform services leveraging GraphQL with Apollo Client, Server, and Router, BPMN using Camunda v8, and Event Driven Architecture using Kafka on AWS
- Demonstrate courage - be willing to take a position to advance design and implementation decisions. Capable of principled push back with both peers and superiors
- Continuously enhance and optimize code quality, scalability, security, and performance
- Create clean, maintainable, and well-documented code adhering to best practices and coding standards
- Write automated tests and conduct thorough testing to deliver high-quality, shippable software every sprint
- Collaborate with product owners, user experience designers, and other team members contributing to the product development process, actively participate in discussions and development ceremonies, propose technical solutions, and translate them into working software
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to deploy and maintain applications into the Production environment
- Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve development processes and skills
- Have a strong bias for action and learning by doing mindset
- Thrive working in a fast-paced environment
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Active learner with initiative to drive continuous improvement is a must
- Ability to create and foster relationships within a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- BA/BS degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or related field or 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Direct, hands-on experience and significant professional experience with one or more programming languages such as but not limited to: Python, Typescript, Scala, SQL
- At least 5 years of hands-on cloud computing experience in AWS. Deep functional experience with EKS, Aurora, MSK, DBT, Airflow, and Flink is a strong plus
- In-depth RDBMS development experience (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora)
- Experienced in designing, implementing and CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Experience with automated delivery pipelines, agile delivery, and test-driven development
- Familiarity with a variety of programming styles (e.g., OO, functional) and in-depth knowledge of software design patterns is a strong plus
- At least 3+ years SCRUM/Agile/iterative methods
- Experience with API and integration frameworks and patterns (e.g., GraphQL, gRPC, Kakfa, etc.) is a strong plus
- Passion for producing clean, error-free code and proactively identifying potential issues
- Outstanding problem identification, analysis and solving skills with a bias for action
- A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods: agile development, design and code reviews, test-driven development, and related approaches
- Good communication skills with both technical and non-technical team members
- Experience mentoring junior developers
- Passion for continuous learning and continuous improvement is a must
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we are an organization that values diversity. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including minorities and persons with disabilities.
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