Translate business requirements into clear, actionable technical documentation that guides development and testing.
Understand the purpose of new features and help communicate that purpose to team members.
Create design specifications, test plans, and unit tests for individual work scope.
Preemptively scan backlogs to surface important issues, apply relevant labels for triaging and tracking, and assist in prioritizing work.
Understand work processes and their interdependencies to ensure seamless integration.
Development & Coding
Build new features or enhance existing ones based on defined specifications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security.
Evaluate existing software systems to identify areas for improvement, optimization, or refactoring.
Use profiling tools to identify and optimize inefficient code paths, memory usage, and system responsiveness.
Design and implement software systems in accordance with software development standards
Write clean, legible, efficient, and well-documented code.
Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of assigned tasks, contributing to overall project success and team velocity.
Testing & Quality Assurance
Participate in software testing to identify, document, and resolve bugs and other issues.
Participate in code reviews and other quality assurance activities to ensure software systems are robust and performant.
Debug and troubleshoot complex software issues and provide timely solutions.
Ensure adherence to software development best practices and processes.
Deployment & Maintenance
Perform ongoing maintenance to ensure software stability, reliability, and alignment with evolving business needs.
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation to support development, testing, and long-term maintenance.
Collaboration & Communication
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including Product, Design, and Engineering teams) to design, develop, test, and maintain software applications.
Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of requirements and implementation goals.
Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
Leadership & Mentorship
Leads complex technical and functional projects, influences product and departmental strategy through strong leadership and domain expertise.
Contribute to hiring and retaining top engineering talent by conducting interviews, serving as an onboarding mentor and support/mentor new hires.
Mentor team members and provide guidance.
Help to support the work of their peers by pair programming, reviewing code, and through mentorship.
Actively contributes to the development of departmental strategies and decision-making.
Meets budgets and schedules for the entire project lifecycle.
Professional Development
Continuously improve technical skills and stay up to date with emerging technologies.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and a minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience in information technology (IT), software development/support and technology solutions.
4-6 years of experience working in a customer-facing role and leading projects.
Proficiency in Python with experience in backend frameworks and libraries, such as Django or similar frameworks.
Strong experience with RESTful API design and implementation.
Hands-on experience with AWS CLI and SDKs for programmatic cloud resource management.
Experience with Celery for task queue management and Gunicorn for WSGI application deployment.
Proficiency in JavaScript, extensive experience with AngularJS, React and React hooks.
Solid understanding of CSS and HTML5 including styling frameworks like LESS.
Experience with webpack and webpack plug-ins for front-end optimization.
Familiarity with “less” framework, Git, npm and yarn for version control and package management.
Understanding CI/CD processes, Docker and containerized application development.
Comfortable working in Linux-based environments and shell scripting for deployment and debugging.
Strong grasp of collaborative development workflows using Git.
Benefits
Other duties as assigned.
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