Lead Software Engineer

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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