Lead Software Engineer

Aura is looking for a lead full stack engineer to join our core engineering team. As a lead software engineer you will have the opportunity to work on a highly visible domain of Aura’s product offerings for our customers and stakeholders, and contribute to the full stack through the entire software development lifecycle. It’s a fast paced development environment with plenty of opportunities to take ownership of development initiatives and drive it to success.

Day to Day:

• Hands-on engineer writing code and participating in scrum along with other team members, focused on delivering on commitments for the product roadmap and technology evolution

• Be the technical leader that takes on a leadership role for feature development initiatives by contributing and collaborating up and down the stack with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility towards agreed upon goals and deliverables

• Work closely with product management, design, QA, and other stakeholders to build high quality features and release on time

• Mentor developers contributing to the engineering initiatives

• Evangelize modern design and coding best practices that emphasizes cloud native principles around security, scale, resiliency, and business continuity through effective documentation and team effort

• Lead troubleshooting of critical production incidents and other customer issues in Production, towards resolution and drive continuous improvement of code quality and technology adaptations

What you bring to the table:

• Proven track record for building and delivering resilient and scalable products and services on schedule, with appropriately high quality.

• 10+ years of solid software coding experience in Java and NodeJS, developing microservices based applications for the cloud

• Strong experience with Git and associated CI/CD technologies

• Proficiency with AWS services - experience with messaging (SQS/SNS), serverless functions (Lambda), object storage (S3), and SQL/NoSQL databases (Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB)

• Demonstrable capabilities in developing for serviceability, troubleshooting issues, and monitoring cloud applications while keeping security in mind.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Prior experience working with Agile methodologies such as scrum, SaFE, etc.

• Bachelors in CS or equivalent experience

It would be great if you also had:

• Terraform,  GitHub actions, and Jenkins

• React/Redux for front end development

• Prior startup experience with a consumer driven product or solution

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