Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead

What you'll be doing:

• As Tech Lead, you will work with the Directors and VP of Engineering, and manage various stakeholders to prioritize and allocate work for your team.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Customer team leads on providing accurate estimations for product implementations.
• Execute against the prioritization of product backlog features as defined by the Director of Engineering for your team.
• Ensure there is effective dissemination of information to your team and reinforce strong communication paths with Engineering and Data Science counterparts.
• Partner with other Tech Leaders to establish, measure and deliver on team productivity standards.
• Build and maintain peer level cross functional relationships. Proactively seek to understand upstream/ downstream impacts of priority changes through empathy, research and knowledge sharing
• Work with Engineers to ensure that statuses in JIRA are up-to-date. Create clear paths and process flows to communicate status changes to your product team

About You

• You're an expert communicator and collaborator – you can talk about your code and explain your approach both in extreme detail and as an elevator pitch to executives
• Your natural mode of operation is finding optimal solutions to problems. You know how to break down complex problems into digestible size so the team can work efficiently toward delivery
• You are most energized, motivated and fulfilled when bringing order to chaos, collaborating, and removing blockers for your team
• You prefer to wear multiple hats in your role, including product- and project-oriented roles.
• You know the difference between under- and over- engineered solutions
• You are hungry for knowledge and experience and not afraid of jumping right in
• You have successful experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Your strong sense of responsibility and accountability regarding documentation and delivering quality products is contagious
• You're obsessed with performing statistical analysis on the performance and accuracy of your services and tailoring your evaluation based on the use case

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience shipping production code, and building scalable applications that utilize cloud services
• 3+ years of experience managing software engineers handling employee performance activities, mentorship, and career growth.
• Expertise with high volume data processing at scale including distributed systems design
• Expertise designing workflows using task orchestration frameworks, like Airflow, Prefect, or Luigi
• Demonstrated experience working directly with customers to solve complex processing problems
• Good working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and cloud native best practices
• You have working knowledge of core aspects of product design, including architecture, testing automation, data modeling, service performance and security


Preferred skills that would be a plus:


• You have vast experience building applications that utilize AWS services – bonus points if you’ve designed and deployed applications both in AWS serverless framework and AWS server based frameworks using a wide range of AWS services
• Deep experience on production operations methods
• Understanding of OWASP web security standards and secure coding techniques
• Experience working in the healthcare industry, particularly with provider data