Lead Engineer

Role and Responsibilities

• Highly technical, fully hands-on team leader with experience managing small to mid-size teams

• Self-motivating, self-directing, and a great communicator (written and oral). You thrive in an environment that grants you a lot of autonomy to explore creative solutions

• A track record of leading and mentoring less experienced developers. You are eager to teach others and invested in the growth of your team

• Excellent problem solving skills. You excel at analyzing and solving problems using technology

• Plan and document technical specifications for features or system design

• Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements

• Knows to take action and raise flags during all stages of development

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical, international audience 

Knowledge & Experience

• 4+ years of full-stack web development experience with any major server-side stack, databases, and modern front-end (JS, HTML, CSS)

• Work closely with senior stakeholders both inside and outside the company to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team

• Partner with the Head of Product refine backlog items and provide input on backlog prioritization

• Develop the strategic direction of the company through product and engineering leadership, making architectural decisions that ensure scalable solutions

• Experience in security, scalability, resilience, and efficiency of backend components

• Direct the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications

• Lead “code reviews” for your team and consultant developers

• Experience working remotely and/or working with teams that are distributed geographically

• Solid knowledge of Data Science, including with scraping/aggregating, cleansing, and manipulating large amounts of data

• Excellent Computer Science fundamentals, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, problem-solving, and complexity analysis

• Extensive programming skills in Python and Django or other similar languages and web frameworks, with a track record of getting stuff done. You are adept at shipping high quality, well-tested code in a fast paced environment

• Write testable, scalable and efficient code

• Knowledge in database architecture (PostgreSQL and NoSQL knowledge is a plus)

• Understanding of common software design patterns

• Working knowledge of AWS is a plus

• Test-driven development (TDD) experience is a plus

• Familiarity with Javascript frameworks is a plus 

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