Software Engineer Lead

Job Summary

As a Software Squad (Team) Leader, you are responsible for facilitating the team’s work, fostering a collaborative environment, and ensures that the team delivers value while adhering to the Agile principles. You will work closely with the product owner to ensure that the decomposition of the software design will meet the market requirements. You will ensure that the team is self-organizing, self-managing and collaborating with the team and across Agile teams. You will ensure that the team is empowered to take ownership of their work and make decisions. You will communicate the progress to stakeholders. You will have leadership and influencing skills without having the team report into you.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Leads the ‘People’ side of the delivery. Coach team members on delivering results.
• Ensures the teams have the right people, skills, tools and capacity needs to deliver successfully
• Develop system designs, specifications, implementation details and code for new features connecting cloud and mobile components.
• Design, develop, and maintain software applications using C#, JavaScript, and React.
• Focuses on areas in technology that need cross-team decision making and support
• Leads technology group in identifying and implementing appropriate development tools, standards, guidelines, best practices.
• Involved in the hiring and on-boarding of new engineers
• Infuses guidance from outside the team into the technical solution (company standards & vision)
• Actively engaged with the Solution Architect in translation of technical vision through the whole SDLC.
• Help the team plan and execute work effectively, ensuring that tasks are well-defined, prioritized and tracked.
• Identify and manage risks escalating to the relevant stakeholders.
• Evaluate team’s velocity and work to understand and address impediments that hinders the team’s progress, whether organizational, technical or interpersonal.
• Define the ‘strategic’ initiatives that align to the outcomes. Break down high-level Epics into manageable deliverables or themes.
• Ensures execution of work items are completed in logical sequence in the prioritized backlog train
• Leads backlog grooming and decomposition
• Leads team retrospective, improvement process on delivery

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or equivalent
• 5+ Experience with Full Stack Software Design and Development 
• Proficient using JavaScript and React to develop Front-End Components
• Capable of developing and coaching on full stack development (front end and back end)
• Working knowledge of  .NET (C#), C#, C++, JavaScript, HTML and Python
• Familiar with WiX Toolset, Selenium, Xunit, Nunit, git, SQL, Node.js, NuGet, Grunt, Azure, React and Mithril.js
• Extensive knowledge of debugging practices and problem solving
• Proficient in conflict resolution
• Proficient knowledge of software engineering best practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, or equivalent.
• 5-8 years of software development experience in an Agile Scrum environment
• 3-5 experience as a Agile Squad Leader
• Hands-on experience with at least 3-4 of the following programming languages and tools: C#, C++, JavaScript, HTML, Python, WiX Toolset, Selenium, Xunit, Nunit, Git, SQL, Node.js, NuGet, Grunt, Azure, React, and Mithril.js.
• Proven experience with back-end software design and development.
• Experience with modern data stores and SQL.
• 1-2 years of experience with hardware/software interaction through TCP/UDP/Bluetooth communications.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience with Xamarin/MAUI.