Lead Software Engineer

Company: Horizontal
Location: Minneapolis
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

Ideal Background: Ideal candidate will have experience leading/driving development initiatives. We want someone who is able to write code and mentor junior members of the team. Experience: Experience with performance testing and Kubernetes Top Requirements: 10+ years of overall work experience in IT Solution Delivery and software engineer and/or architecture serving as a lead or mentor to others 5+ years of Java development experience 5+ years of experience with spring framework and Spring MVC Team and Team size: 5 developers, 1 Product Owner, 1 Development Lead Primary Responsibilities: Create and executes against a plan to develop, launch, and maintain off the shelf and proprietary automation tools/frameworks that can be consumed by internal teams Create functional and technical specifications Review project objectives and determine best technology for implementation Work with internal and external developers to create code standards and best practices and ensure they are adhered to Partner with other competency leads / developers and support project planning, technical design, development and solution deployment functions Identify opportunities in business processes, system capabilities and delivery methodologies for continuous improvement as applicable Provide ongoing expertise to operational support groups (e.g., Systems Support) in order to address identified application problems/issues, as requested, and help to provide root cause analysis Assess and interpret customer needs and requirements Identify/quantify scope and impact of business changes on systems Collaborate with team of varied skills to solve problems Mentor junior resources to enable team cross-training Support, design and improve on monitoring, alerting and tooling/framework efforts Ability and willingness to augment current expertise with new open source or targeted vendor technologies Communicate clearly and effectively in oral and written forms, and be able to present and demonstrate work to technical and non-technical audiences Required Qualifications: Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience 10+ years of overall work experience in IT Solution Delivery and software engineer and/or architecture serving as a lead or mentor to others 8+ years of experience with Object Oriented Design and Development 8+ years of experience with Test-Driven Development with tools like JUnit, Spock, Mocha, or Jasmine 5+ years of Java development experience 5+ years of experience with spring framework and Spring MVC 3+ years of experience developing REST based APIs

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