**Lead Software Engineer - Tech Lead**
The Lead Software Engineer - Tech Lead is responsible for the technical excellence of software developed by an Agile scrum team.
Assures architectural qualities are implemented within the code using simple, consistent, reusable, and testable design patterns.
Works with the entire Product Team in an Agile environment to ensure alignment of priorities and increments of value are ready to deliver each sprint.
Is a champion of coding standards, unit testing, paired programming, code revies.
They mentor, train and coach team members in these areas.
Is seen as a respected and respectful leader on the team.
**Responsibilities**:
- Understand, champion, mentor team on architectural qualities, design patterns, coding and testing best practices.
- Understand and help shape DevOps and Security principles to ensure applicatoin code and CI/CD pipeline is secure and scalable?
- Work closely with the Product Owner and the Product Team to understand, scope and define the story objectives and context?
- Work closely with Quality Assurance Engineers and Product Owners to define and refine acceptance criteria and ensure the product is tested successfully?
- Supports SRE in troubleshooting production issues and recommends tactical low risk fixes balanced against long term fixes for any critical or high priority issues?
- Identifies needs for, develops, maintains, reviews, and approves technical and non-technical documentation?
- Proactively helps remove roadblocks for the team
- Writes code according to acceptance criteria in a user story and defines and adheres to coding best practices ?
- Tests code changes on local system to ensure quality?
- Provides and defines code reviews and/or pair programming guidelines for team and assures all code follows coding best practices ?
- Define patterns for, review, and write and champion unit tests to the level of satisfactory defined by the dev team?
- Mentors, trains, and coaches on writing high quality code and unit tests?
- Mentors, trains, and coaches on processes, best practices, and software tools?
**Expectations, Education and Experience**:
- Expert knowledge of.Net and React Native
- Advanced knowledge of data modeling and writing performant functional DB queries and the ability to coach team members in this area
- Advanced knowledge of security principles and how to proactively avoid and/or resolve them and the ability to coach team members in this area
- Advanced ability to debug non-code issues (OS, DB, network, security, etc.)
- Ability to effectively lead and direct multiple products at various stages of development?
- Ability to think strategically and take a proactive instead of a reactive approach to development?
- Actively participate in definition of team values and retrospectives
- Ability to work independently as well as in a group setting?
- Ability to effectively analyze complex problems within a product suite, perform risk and impact analysis, and recommend solutions by balancing the competing interests of simplicity, thoroughness, consistency and innovation
- Understands and recommends priorities to ensure the team is successful and communicate risks to timelines and expectations
- Takes ownership of work and responsibility for own and team actions