Lead Software Engineer

Kobie is a loyalty solutions company that helps leading brands build lasting emotional connections with consumers. The Lead Software Engineer will lead development teams and support the full Agile software development lifecycle, delivering high-quality, maintainable solutions. The role also involves mentoring engineers, establishing engineering standards, and guiding architecture, security, automation, and testing practices.

Responsibilities:

• Gain the respect of your team and coach engineers at multiple levels to apply best practices when solutioning work items for our products
• Support and lead all phases of the Agile methodology (grooming, designing, coding, testing)
• Focus on outcomes as opposed to output and ensure timely delivery of high quality, flexible and maintainable solutions
• Participate in design sessions; work with product owners to ensure your solutions meet the needs of the business and our customers
• Assist other team members with questions and provide guidance and mentorship on best practices and new technology adoption
• Promote and demonstrate good coding practice and patterns for the team
• Establish and reinforce standards in the areas of coding, design, security, automation, and testing
• Create and maintain a highly engaging and respectful work environment that encourages learning and the advancement of our people, process, and tooling

Requirements:

• Candidates should be able and willing to travel as needed to fulfill the responsibilities of the role
• You are a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years experience in the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, automated build processes, testing, peer review, and DevOps
• You are a critical thinker with experience prioritizing and negotiating several competing efforts and maintaining productivity through numerous context changes
• You have led development teams and know how to define and commit to a body of work in which you ensure the successful delivery by breaking it down into consumable parts and collaborating with key team members
• An attribute you excel at is the ability to drive out ambiguity in the technology solutions we build in order to bring value to our customers
• Experience leading development teams who are responsible for the successful delivery of prioritized roadmap items
• Experience designing and developing applications and components using J2EE technologies, SOA architecture, with sound knowledge in front end technologies to deliver vertical slices of value
• Deep experience with service-oriented architecture and API development within a containerized deployment environment
• Experience with distributed computing and object-oriented design and analysis
• Strong relational database skills using PostgreSQL / Oracle
• Strong knowledge of Enterprise Messaging/Integration Patterns
• Experience in developing XML / JSON based web-services
• Experience in Java technologies: JMS, MDB, JPA (Hibernate)
• Familiarity with key Java frameworks and libraries such as Spring (Boot, MVC, Security, Data), Hibernate/JPA, and relevant testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito)
• Experience with high-volume, real-time applications
• In depth experience with Agile (e.g., Scrum Process)
• Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ
• Java, Bamboo/GIT, Open source components and frameworks
• Experience with Test Driven Development and BDD
• Experience with Spring frameworks (Core, Boot, Batch, Data, REST)
• Extensive experience in Microservices Architecture, GraphQL
• Build Management tools (GitHub Actions, Hudson)
• Familiarity and experience with AI/ML driven tooling
• AWS, EKS, Karpenter, ArgoCD