Software Development Tech Lead

As a Datalex software development team lead, you will be responsible for managing a geographically distributed team of highly skilled engineers. You will be a people manager as well as a software technical leader. You will be the software project team's key contact and will utilize well-developed communication skills to lead and facilitate effective problem-solving discussions with key stakeholders within the company. You will be technically hands-on with estimating features, planning, coding, debugging, design, performance, and testing of team deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to estimate, document, design, implement, and test large features to the highest quality and take ownership of their delivery.
• Capable of participating in technical and business discussions both internally and externally.
• Understand the business drivers behind each feature.
• Ensure your team delivers high-quality product and platform functionality, on time and on budget.
• Mentor, motivate, and train developers within your team, both locally and remotely.
• Manage the translation of requirements into design and take ownership of documentation for your project deliveries.
• Challenge the status quo – contribute to and lead initiatives to improve the software development process. Think BIG!

• 5+ years of software industry experience with excellent proficiency in Java and Web Services.
• 2+ years managing a Software Engineering team, ideally within a fast-paced dynamic product-based company.
• Solid experience in the design/development of highly available, distributed, and scalable applications.

• Good understanding of Agile principles with experience leading a Scrum/Kanban team.
• Web service technologies: REST, SOAP.
• Development Tools: GIT, Gradle, Ant, Jenkins, Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket).
• Communication Tools: Slack, Microsoft Teams.
• Database: Oracle or MongoDB.
• Distributed Technologies: Spring, J2EE, Memcached.
• Test Automation frameworks: BDD, TestNG.
• Practical experience with DevOps concepts: CI/CD, ChatOps, etc.
• Scripting skills sufficient for sysadmin, deployments, and API interaction are an advantage.
• Familiarity with source control tools such as GIT.
• Strong organizational skills and written and oral communication in English, with other languages being a benefit.
• Experience with the design and management of applications that support:
• Minimizing single points of failure.
• Zero downtime upgrades.
• Auto-scaling applications that have cold start challenges.
• Distributed applications.
• Implementing and using metrics to make data-driven decisions.
• Building systems that negate the need for people to log into servers.
• Building apps that run in containers.