Lead Software Engineer - Transaction Management

What you'll be doing

• Deep collaboration with Product Management to turn user stories into a technical plan that can be executed by multiple people
• Informing product direction by communicating engineering constraints and objectives to the Product Team
• Evaluating and articulating end-to-end designs for strengths and weaknesses (e.g., complexity, quality, scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity, etc)
• Identifying tech debt and making recommendations of reduction
• Upholding application performance and security best practices within the team
• Writing full suite of automated tests to ensure production stability (unit, integration, e2e) 
• Writing code for medium to large features independently
• Leading code reviews, providing constructive feedback
• Mentoring junior engineers on the Engineering team

What would make you a strong fit for the role

• We are looking for someone with 8+ years of experience building front-end applications in production environments. You should be able to write clean, documented, and well-tested code.
• You are an expert with JavaScript and have experience with Typescript.
• Ideally you have worked with React or Next.js in a few of your most recent projects. You should be very comfortable with React and should know the standard methodologies and patterns, hooks, and suspense.
• You should also have experience with testing. At Side, we use Jest for unit tests and Cypress for End-to-end tests. You should have experience writing meaningful tests with both frameworks.
• On top of being a great front-end engineer, you have experience mentoring junior engineers who need help and guidance.
• You should be capable of determining when best to delegate vs own the work yourself
• It would be a plus if you have experience with GraphQL, security best practices, or accessibility.
• You should have extensive experience with Git & Github and providing strong code reviews.
• Experience with Jira
• High EQ, able to respond effectively to people’s needs
• Experience with open-source is a plus