Team Lead (Software Developer)

Job Duties and Qualifications

We are seeking passionate, highly skilled, experienced Team Lead with full stack development expertise in Java, Python, or NodeJS, expertise in cloud technologies, familiarity with front-end technologies such as Angular, and experience leading software development teams.  In this role, you will lead a team of software developers working with product owners and other teams to design and deliver innovative solutions for customers.  Qualified candidates will enjoy working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and be open-minded and adaptable to change.

Responsibilities:
 

• Lead the development team in delivering new products, features and fixes using an Agile approach working with the Product Owner, Developers, QAs, and Architects.
• Contribute to product planning, providing technical solution input to the Product Owner and technical guidance to the team.
• Team management including day to day and career development for team members.
• Collaborate with other team leads and architects on solution design for complex features.
• Develop testing strategy and plan to ensure high quality solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture, deployment, cost, availability, and performance.
• Monitor team progress against committed goals and provide updates to interested parties. 
• Assist in creation of external user documentation.
• Actively participate in development as a hands-on contributor.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of existing and emerging technologies relevant to the role. 

Requirements:

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in software development for complex applications is desired.  
• Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal.
• Experience leading a software development team, including remote team members.
• Excellent understanding of software and SaaS design principles, patterns and best practices.
• Excellent understanding of designing components and services for use in a larger ecosystem.
• Excellent understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with Cloud and SaaS Development: Azure/AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, event-streaming, etc. 
• Proficiency writing services in Java, Python or JavaScript, with experience in relevant frameworks such as Spring Boot, Django, Node.JS.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, documentation tools like Swagger, web services, and JSON.
• Familiar with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
• Experience with creating and consuming relational and non-relational data such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra.
• Familiar with secure coding practices and ability to identify and fix security issues.
• Experience with unit testing or other automated testing tools such as JUnit, JMeter, JEST, Karma/Jasmine, Protractor.
• Proficiency in Git version control.
• Familiar with back-end build tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Gradle, Maven, npm.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to learn fast.

Desired Experience and Skills:

• Experience in the Oil & Gas industry.
• Familiar with deployment automation tools such as Helm and Ansible.
• Familiar with GraphQL.