What You'll Do
A successful Lead Software Engineer will have hands-on role requiring a strong engineering background and a successful track record leading development team. You must have a proven track record of designing and building powerful, fast, massively scalable, and secure web-based applications. You must bring a passion for people management and a “leader-as-servant” approach to management, as this is reflective of our culture at First Advantage. You will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and inspire and motivate the engineering team.
Responsibilities:
Own and drive key pieces of First Advantage’s next-generation global platform architecture and implementation – 10%
Drive organizational alignment with goals, priorities and team allocation to achieve business objectives - 5%
Be a champion for the Agile Scrum framework and DevOps approach within the team. Influence the right behaviors and outcomes on the part of other teams - 10%
Manage team of developers, designing and implementing new functionality, as well as improving existing products - 25%
Recruit top talent - 5%
Own scheduling and on-time delivery of features throughout the software development lifecycle - 10%
Work across engineering, operations, and business partner teams to deliver highly scalable and reliable enterprise services - 10%
Regularly communicate program / project status to stakeholders - 5%
Model performance excellence and mentor your team to do the same - 10%
Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity - 5%
Support continuous process improvement and innovation - 5%
What You Will Need to be Successful:
BE/BTech/BS or master’s in computer science or related discipline
Overall 10+ years of experience with hands-on experience in software development and quality assurance.
5+ years in a technical leadership role with hands-on experience in software development and quality assurance.
What You May Need to be Successful:
Demonstrated experience in driving development and delivery within an Agile (Scrum or Kanban) / DevOps environment.
Strong architecture, design, and implementation skills with a strong coding background in C#.
Comfort working with GIT based source control in a collaborative environment
Experience with .Net, .NET Core, MVC, ASP.Net, Windows Services, Windows Applications, MS SQL Server
Technical leadership experience with RESTful API, JSON, and XML based projects
Experience with NLog, log4net, or similar logging frameworks
Experience with cloud technologies, particularly AWS with familiarity with AWS CLI/CFT etc., and microservice-based architecture is strongly desired.
High degree of competency within all phases of project management / SDLC including issue and risk identification and management, change management, tracking dependencies and milestones, and communication of overall project status.
Excellent organizational and communication skills across, up, and down the organization.
Demonstrated maturity, judgment, negotiation and analytical skills.
A strong drive and passion to learn new businesses and internet technologies.
We have great people here and are looking for more. Come join us!
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Equal Employment Opportunities at First Advantage
First Advantage is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a workplace and recruitment process that is free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Employment decisions at First Advantage are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or family status, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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