Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ten Mile Square Technologies is a high-end technology consulting firm based in the Northern Virginia area. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead a remote-first team in greenfield development of a loan origination system for a financial institution, focusing on software development methods and technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of software engineers, software engineer in test automation (SDET), and DevOps
- Architect, design, and build a telephony integration system using Node, Apollo GraphQL, Angular or React, and a suite of AWS components including but not limited to EKS, Lambda, S3, MSK, and Aurora. The components are primarily backend systems, but some frontend development will be needed
- Design and implement GraphQL subgraphs and participate in a federated graph schema community of practice
- Define and enforce engineering best practices around code quality, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows on AWS
- Contribute as member of an Agile team and promote Agile practices
- Work with client executives and product team to translate business needs into requirements, epics, stories, and tasks
- Work with the client product team to groom the backlog, plan workstreams, plan sprints, and assign sprints and tasks to software engineers
- Work with principal engineers and the product team to help determine functional requirements for the system
- Mentor developers on the team
- Ensure technical documentation is of quality and accessible to technology team
- Proactively collaborate with the Ten Mile team on development and knowledge sharing
- Represent yourself and Ten Mile Square with integrity, expertise, and value
- Maintain the confidentiality of our clients on an ongoing basis
Skills
- 2 years of experience as a tech lead
- 3 years of experience as a senior software engineer
- 7+ years of software development experience including 3 years of TypeScript and Node
- 2 years of experience working with GraphQL
- Expertise in developing and deploying on AWS
- Expertise in SQL
- Working knowledge of at least one of the following frontend JavaScript frameworks: Angular, Ionic, React, Vue
- Full application stack development experience: front-end to persistence
- Full software lifecycle participation: requirements to post-implementation
- Linux command line
- Self-motivated to PROACTIVELY identify and solve problems
- Be passionate about what you do
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly
- Detail-oriented
- High integrity and quality of work ethic
- Excellent communication skills – within team and with clients
Benefits
- 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (including family)
- 100% company paid individual short- and long- term disability
- 100% company paid vision insurance
Company Overview
When the answer isn’t obvious, it’s time to call in Ten Mile Square. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://tenmilesquare.com/.