Engineering Lead – Backend

Role Overview

• The Engineering Lead serves as an emerging subject matter expert and exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment.
• With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs within the business unit.
• An Engineering Lead exhibits strong influential skills to represent the software engineering practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs.
• You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices.
• Plans and executes on roadmaps for new projects without explicit guidance and direction from technical supervisors
• Actively participates in conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders
• Elaborates on and evolves complex and ambiguous products to uncover constraints and new opportunities
• Reduces ambiguity in the systems they work with, including adding documentation, refactoring, and automated testing
• Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that theyve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates
• Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions

Requirements

• Bachelors degree and 7+ years of engineering experience
• Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Expert-level capabilities in at least one major technology stack, able to independently lead teams and ensure successful delivery
• Experience with Department of Veterans Affairs and/or government contracting
• Active clearance with Department of Veteran Affairs desired

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program