Lead Software Engineer

Job Description
Redtech is helping our client with a Contract to Hire search for a Lead Software Engineer (React/JavaScript) with Site Reliability experience for a Global Digital Engineering group.

SRE/SWE - must be open to and available to convert to FTE

Duration - Contract to Hire (contract portion thru approx Sept 2025)

Location: Issaquah (Seattle), WA OR Greater Chicago area - selected candidate must live within 50 miles of their selected work location (relocation assistance offered for those eligible upon FTE conversion)

Schedule - 3 day/week onsite hybrid schedule

Requires scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of the team

Ability to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.

Background check & Drug Test - requires successful completion.

Eligibility - must be US Citizen or Green card holder

Contract Pay Rate Range - $82-92/hr W-2

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Benefits - (all are based on eligibility)

Choice of 3 Medical/RX insurance plans from Premera (Blue Cross national network). Premium is 100% company paid by Redtech for employee. Optional Dental/Vision coverage.

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k) plan with company match

Company paid Life/AD&D insurance for employee

(FTE conversion salary target is between $150,000 - $225,000 DOE and level)

Level Sr - $150,000 - $190,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

Level 4 - $180,000 - $225,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

Position Summary

Lead Software Engineer (React/JavaScript) with Site Reliability experience - Global Digital Engineer

Software Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). They are versatile in how they can add value, demonstrating the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve databases, backend services, or the development of front-end applications. They should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions. Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.

The SRE with Software Engineering responsibilities include ensuring the availability, scalability, and performance of our critical systems. The Software Engineer manages the development principles, methodologies, and tools to design, implement, and maintain reliable infrastructure and automation solutions. The successful candidate will have the ability to bridge the gap between development and operations will be instrumental in driving continuous improvement and innovation.

The SRE Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance. This role will also be directly responsible for designing and building modern user interface components to enhance our member experience over a wide variety of digital touchpoints delivering SRE capabilities, creating delightful user experiences for our members, and maintaining them through functional improvement, documentation, profiling, and front-end performance enhancements.

ROLE

• Develops the conceptual systems architecture design and the supporting technologies needed to enable new and/or enhanced functionality within a given product/application, applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability and security into the design framework.

• Supports release planning activities in conjunction with Product Owners and teams.

• Identifies high level requirements to support the definition and refinement of a robust testing strategy.

• Supports the Product Owner with the identification and definition of enablers / work items to support the architectural runway of a given product/application.

• Defines the non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, resiliency, etc.) which support the development of epics and user stories aligned to a value stream.

• Identifies technical dependencies across several product / application teams to support the implementation of new or enhanced functionality.

• Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.

• Develops and implements front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.

• Increases proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience, quality assurance, security concerns, and business value creation.

• Drives engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.

• Provides the team with the development strategy, solution recommendations, and estimates for a given product/application.

• Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, showcases/demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.).

• Creates and executes unit tests which validate the code changes made to support the implementation of a user story.

• Uses test driven development (TDD) practices to assist with the detection/recognition of software defects early in the development process.

• Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on development progress.

• Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.

• Develops high quality, efficient and fault tolerant software.

• Supports, extends and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.

• Designs and delivers DevSecOps automation for app deployment and testing.

• Uses APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace/Splunk and browser tools to perform request purepath/waterfall analysis to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements.

• Participates in the development and documentation of department standards and best practices, and mentors' junior engineers.

• Provides the team with solution recommendations and estimates for a given product/application.

• Identifies deficiencies within a product/application's code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.

• Collaborates with team members (e.g., Systems Architects, Systems Analysts) to define project specifications and release documentation for all phases of the product development cycle from product definition to design, through implementation.

• Conducts peer code reviews for the software changes made by other engineers within a team.

• Promotes and supports a culture of compliance, risk avoidance/mitigation, and corporate accountability throughout the organization through technical leadership, knowledge of business need, development and communication of policies, procedures, and plans, and assurance of solution designs that follow architecture standards, technology guardrails, security, and operational guidelines.

• Provides leadership/mentoring to team members; implements development efficiencies; creates appropriate documentation; drives operational efficiencies and technical growth within the team; and supports the release model.

• Optimizes team efficiency and performance through high level technical direction.

• Provides technical leadership in implementation of applications, strategic planning sessions, documentation of requirements, tool implementation, database query languages, and programming languages.

• Assists in management and operation of site reliability functions related to CLIENT's SAP Commerce Solution.

• Develops, establishes, and enforces policies, standards, and guidelines for site reliability.

• Identifies, designs, develops, and deploys tools and processes to monitor, maintain, and report site performance and availability.

• Tracks system performance, capacity, and use experience to create effective strategies for maintaining and improving system performance and availability. Advises the International Ecommerce team on said strategies.

• Uses communication and documentation tools (Jira, BitBucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, etc.) to communicate and coordinate with other team members.

• Applies technical expertise to lead the resolution of system issues related to system performance, availability, and capacity.

• Contributes to and maintains an in-depth understanding of the Non-Production and Production architectures, including the hosted server environments, deployed applications, integrated packages, and 3rd party operational tools, particularly as they relate to system performance, availability, and capacity.

• Works with the design, development, QA, technical operations teams, as well as other stakeholders, to maintain the performance, availability, and integrity of CLIENT's SAP Commerce solution.

• Communicates effectively with project teams and other participants in ongoing system development to identify and resolve issues, explain solutions, and provide technical expertise.

REQUIRED

• 7+ years' previous experience working as a React.js developer.

• 7+ years' experience in React.js, HTML, CSS3.

• Vast experience in JavaScript and React concepts, advanced front-end coding skills, and an expert level understanding of progressive web applications click apply for full job details