Lead Developer (AWS, Java/Data)

Job Overview

In this role, you will be on a dedicated software development team, helping us build innovative proprietary software products. This is a tight-knit team with top-performers that are constantly innovating and expanding the capabilities of our software while maintaining process and writing clean code.

Job responsibilities

• Participate in pre-sale activities and help CTO create and estimate proposals.
• Lead projects, taking ownership of task assignments and deliverables (support risk assessment, cost and timing, dependence and impact on other solutions / projects).
• Design, build and deliver cloud computing solutions, hosted services and underlying software infrastructure.
• Understand the domain, business requirements and resulting technical challenges — you should have an expert level in technologies used for implementation (see “Required skills and experience”) and quickly become the team's resource in the problem domain and business cases.
• Play an active role during the project requirements gathering, design and implementation, building out application components and unit/acceptance tests alongside your team.
• Update and create the technical documentation (e.g. diagrams, architecture design and handover instructions and documents).
• Get to know your team: strengths, weaknesses, ambitions and personalities, making sure they understand the big picture and how important their work is to the team’s overall success.
• Act as a communication proxy for your team and transfer the important information to the appropriate people (team, CEO / CTO, Director of Development, PMs, clients).
• Be a leading participant in planning activities, internal and customer-facing design sessions, empowering team members and ensuring architectural integrity/consistency across subsystems.
• Know the status of your team’s work, communicating schedule slip immediately to management and keeping track of technical debt, manage the team’s backlog, the daily activities, project status, provide Jira (tracking systems) time tracking audit on the hours in their projects at the end of each billing cycle.
• Manage a regular team code review process and ensure compliance with company policy, procedures, and standards.
• Escalate technical project issues and concerns to Project Manager and Director of Development.

This position will report to CEO / CTO, Director of Development and PMs.

Required skills and experience

• At least 8 years of custom software application development experience.
• 5+ years of using Java OR Big Data tech stack with 2+ years as people manager, team lead or technical delivery manager.
• At least 2 years of experience with AWS development stack and development lifecycle tooling (Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, Code Deploy etc). Alternative cloud platform (Azure or GCP) would be an advantage.
• Preference towards the candidates who have hands-on experience or solid theoretical background in Big Data, AI, ML or Java domains.
• Strong English skills: ability to carry on verbal discussion on technical matters (requirements, design negotiation, issue resolution).
• Experience developing enterprise-scale serverless applications.
• Strong leadership skills and mentoring skills.
• Planning, designing, implementing and supporting technology applications.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams.
• Multitasking and prioritizing while ensuring deadlines are met with attention to detail.
• Ability to think strategically about business needs, product and technical challenges in an enterprise environment.
• Familiar with different teamwork approaches and methodologies (Scrum, Agile, Waterfall), understand their applicability areas and shortcomings, and have an ability to apply appropriate practices to real projects.

What we offer

Fair wage:

• Fixed hourly rate in USD.
• Full-time, 40 hours per week contract. It’s your main and permanent place of work, not a freelance job.
• Payments every 2 weeks.
• Annual Hourly Rate Review: received client's appreciation, obtained an AWS certificate, saved the world?The reward is based on facts, not on a personal attitude.
• Reference program: many engineers joined the team by the recommendation from their friends and former colleagues, and we have a reward for this.

Independence:

• From the office location or office conditions because it's only up to you where you want to work from — home, office, co-working or outdoors in the woods. The only requirement — fast and reliable internet. At the same time, our engineers do not work evenings or weekends: we focus on your local timezone.
• From any annoyance or big team buzz — we are the community of professional engineers, valuing each others' time and effort.
• From corruption and bureaucracy — we operate in an honest and competitive environment and we are one of the AWS's top 10 key partners.

Professional development:

• Work with innovative Silicon Valley companies and traditional American companies at the cutting edge of digital transformation.
• We work with the newest technologies in AWS cloud and open-source tools, Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Slack.
• Constant practice at writing and speaking in English.
• The team which is willing to share its experience.
• Paid AWS certification: we provide training material, paid time off and examination itself.
• Free online English classes.
• Horizontal and vertical career growth — are you ready to be greater, faster, stronger? We keep growing and people keep growing with us.