Responsibilities of the Candidate:

Formally supervise, coach, and develop a high-performing development team
Provide strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
Lead large-scale projects from inception to release
Lead design of major, complex parts of the platform with high-quality development
Define state-of-the-art service-oriented software architectures
Spend 50% of your time on active software development tasks
Lead planning and scoping features for the team
Build features used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million dollar decisions
Critically review the code and guide the team with a focus on improving the code quality
Play a key role in shaping the direction of engineering processes through working on a small team empowered to organize and run the team as they see fit
Mentor junior engineers and teammates
Collaborate across teams with exceptional peers who are passionate about what they do

Ideal

Experience managing, coaching, and guiding high-performing software development teams
Experience with full-stack, data, and cloud technologies such as Databricks, AWS (Data Services + Agentic/ML Services including EMR, Agent Core, Bedrock, etc), .NET/C#, Java, Spring Boot, React, Python, Spark, or similar.
Experience solving and implementing scalable solutions to solve complex problems
Experience with AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc., and their effective usage in PDLC is highly preferred.
Proficiency with advanced object-oriented programming, design principles, refactoring, microservice development, and databases
Strong understanding of web technologies and server-side technologies for developing microservices
Strong understanding of microservices development and integration of microservices with UI technology
Passion for analytical/quantitative problem solving
Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams
Prior experience leading a team or mentoring other engineers, both technically and professionally