Engineering Lead – Front-End Focused
Kin
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $140,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AngularCloudJavaScriptNode.jsReactRubyRuby on RailsSDLCSQLTypeScriptVue.js
About the role
- Serve as a hands-on engineering leader and a technical expert
- Nurture and mentor a small team of top engineering talent
- Work with product management to develop and maintain a roadmap for your team
- Drive your team to innovate and deliver roadmap features with agility and high quality
- Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Javascript/Typescript and familiarity with JS frameworks/libraries (Angular, React or Vue)
- Experience with backend development (Ruby/Rails, Node.js, or similar) and a strong understanding of full-stack architecture, APIs, and data flow between frontend and backend systems
- Leading pair programming sessions and providing mentorship to more junior team members
- Driving and fostering design or architectural tasks
- Participating in daily stands and weekly retros
- Collaborating with cross-functional team members, including Product and PMO
- Execute consistently, rapidly, and effectively to take ideas from concept to production and scale
- Maintain high availability of products and quick response to any production incidents
- Represent your team and product line in cross-functional discussions
Requirements
- Leadership experience in software development & strong computer science fundamentals
- Serves as the go-to person for key projects, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure successful delivery.
- Experience leading a small team of engineers in a player coach role.
- Strong design and architecture exposure in building large scale software solutions using cloud technologies
- Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining high performance, high availability (24x7), large-scale web based software applications using modern programming languages
- Experience with Ruby and Rails is nice to have
- Experience with Relational and No-SQL databases, message queues/brokers
- Exposure to BI & big data technologies including Looker, BigTable is nice to have
- Strong communication skills and ability to grasp and convey complex product requirements or technical concepts
- Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment
- Excellent command of software development life cycle activities including analysis, design, development, unit and system testing, production deployment and post-production support
- Knowledge of the Insurance Industry & Products is a big plus.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance options
- Employee Assistance Program
- Elective voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, legal assistance and pet insurance
- Competitive salary and company equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 401K with company match of up to 4% of eligible earnings
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees (typically 15-20 days annually)
- 8 company-observed holidays
- Paid parental leave program that provides 100% salary continuation of up to 14 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non birthing parents
- Continuing education and professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
JavascriptTypescriptAngularReactVueRubyRailsNode.jsAPIsRelational databases
Soft skills
leadershipmentorshipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingagilityinnovationexecutionrisk managementadaptability