Lead Software Engineer - Loyalty Program

INSPYR Solutions is a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, and they are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead the development of projects under the Loyalty vertical of their Sponsorship division. The role involves building scalable solutions, managing a team of engineers, and collaborating with various stakeholders to translate business needs into working software.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of full stack engineers of mixed levels and skill sets
• Participate and drive development work across globally distributed software teams
• Provide technical guidance to the team, including architecture and design decisions, code reviews, and technical problem-solving
• Own the full development and deployment cycle for your team's software and product
• Encourage and grow developers in their craft through mentorship and leadership
• Organize, prioritize; multitask while coordinating team efforts, reporting to stakeholders and management on the progress of goals
• Connect with a series of stakeholders to gather as much information as possible regarding the problem at hand, and implement short to mid-term strategies to evolve products for future success. (UX / Design / Product / PMO...etc.)
• Make technical recommendations outside of the immediate team
• Debug and triage production application issues, often not your own
• Automate testing, deployments, performance, and recovery
• Organise and oversee production releases

Requirements:

• 6+ years experience as a full stack engineer with a focus on backend engineering, with at least 2 years as a lead engineer
• Expert level knowledge of frontend design patterns
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience working with React, NextJS, GraphQL and CSS
• Experience working as a backend software engineer, preferably in Java
• Experience working in a distributed systems environment with micro-frontends and microservices
• Experience working with AWS or other Cloud Provider
• Experience with CI/CD servers (Gitlab/Jenkins)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other orchestration/scheduling framework
• Experience building high performance and resilient applications operating at web scale
• Experience building applications to be gracefully degradable
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to clearly communicate technical topics to non-technical people
• Experience of mentoring team members and will delegate work accordingly
• Experience working on legacy applications and migrations would be a plus
• Experience working with remote teams