Lead Software Engineer

• LOCATION: REMOTE UNITED STATES
• DEPARTMENT: ENGINEERING
• WORK STATUS: FULL-TIME

Overview

Are you looking for a hybrid or remote work opportunity? Are you interested in a workplace that allows for flexibility in your day? Are you ready for a workplace that provides benefits that suit your needs?

The Lead Software Engineer develops software and leads a team to apply software engineering best practices to provide high-quality, maintainable, reusable, performant, and scalable software. 

We need to continue improving our software, introduce new features to customers faster, reach new customers at a global level, and scale our platform to provide seamless customer onboarding. We have already started down this journey with the introduction of our cloud-based product. How do we continue to guide this transformation and implement it with success?

We are looking for experienced lead engineers to focus on DevOps principles and use new technologies, striving to bring excellence to our team atmosphere. Join us in the transformation of the legal industry and help shape the future of the practice of law and beyond. This role will report into the Manager of Software Engineering. 

As a Lead Software Engineer in Engineering System, you will use Agile and DevOps practices to design, build, and maintain the services and tools used by the Product Development department: 

· Virtual machine management – C#.NET, Powershell, Terraform, and Azure Cloud 

· Container management – Docker, Kubernetes, and Harness 

· Developer workflow with test-driven development focus 

· CI/CD workflow – Azure DevOps and Jenkins 

Your Role in Action

• Work with management to set and communicate team goals and vision; ensure the team stays focused and achieves their goals, adapt to changing requirements 
• Contribute to system software architecture development by using data-driven analysis while working with Staff, Advisory and Principal Engineers 
• Lead the implementation of software using the practical application of algorithms, defensive programming and exception handling, fault tolerance, design patterns, and best practices of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) such as SOLID 
• Test and lead the test of software with traceability back to requirements emphasizing the practice of Test-driven Design and the use of autonomous frameworks and Continuous Integration 
• Follow and improve Agile software development (Scrum) to improve engineering efficiency 
• Mentor team members 
• Exemplify core values 

Your Skills

• Experience architecting complex systems and applications, or related experience 
• Experience in strategy planning collaborating across multiple departments 
• Decompose larger problems into software development work as self-contained, minimally inter-dependent tasks for team members to implement 
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork to facilitate collaboration among team members 
• Experience in .NET software development using C# and Microsoft SQL Server, or related technologies 
• Experience managing containers and Kubernetes clusters 
• 8+ years of professional software development experience on commercial-grade systems and applications with experience with building and shipping successful software 
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable solutions in a cloud platform (Azure, AWS, Google). Azure experience