Full Stack Tech Lead

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This role is ideal for someone who thrives in leadership capacity while also remaining hands-on with technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Own, oversee, and drive the strategy of the development, implementation, assessment, and support of one or more environments, applications, or platforms.
• Drives and architects the overall health, performance, availability, and resolution of system and client experience impacts for one or more environments, applications, or platforms.
• Serves as the deep technical expert on the team; owns training program for junior engineers and mentors as the go to resource on the team.
• Evaluates and makes decisions on new technologies and how they fit into the product solutions.
• Displays outward thinking, develops strategies for the full software development life-cycle of new and emerging technologies and demonstrates the viability; owns recommended technologies, maintain budget constraints, and ensure communication and awareness of implemented technology
• Creates, reviews, and approves technical documentation, specifications, and project artifacts with Sr Engineers
• Recommends standards and best practices across the entire bank for technology
• Define high-level application platform architectural guidelines and articulate reasoning and trade-offs for choices to business owners
• Deep understanding of the business; drives, formulates and designs complex solutions to anticipate and meet business needs
• Develop architecture diagrams, detailed design diagrams, interfaces working with all the dependent technical teams

• Lead a team of developers to design, develop and deploy robust, scalable and secure software solutions in compliance with enterprise standards
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers to foster growth and ensure best practices are followed
• Lead end to end development from User interface to server side logic to database management for all applications under the squad
• Hands on development, root cause analysis, defect analysis as needed
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to development standards and improve team skills
• Applies, and proactively prepares to ensure, proper security standards for code development.
• Provides direction and recommendations on solutions for security vulnerabilities if uncovered, and represent Security variances in Security Technology review meetings
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement solutions to ensure system scalability, reliability, availability
• Independently develops and sets best practices for developing clean, maintainable, testable code; performs code reviews for all levels of engineer and drives high standards for code quality, testing and documentation
• Provide recommendations for tools and develop plans and strategies to improve overall hygiene for code development, delivery and release practices
• Develop a culture of modern software development practices
• Own the applications and operational system tasks associated with the applications
• Ensure seamless communication between development teams, other departments such as QA, Enterprise Architecture etc
• Stay up to date with latest trends in full stack development continuously researching and evaluating new technologies that can improve applications

Skills:

• Experienced and adept at trouble shooting and debugging
• Must understand and have implemented core development principles
• Experience working with RESTful API design, SOAP services and microservices architecture
• Proficient in front end development using React JS, Angular, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, ES6
• Relational Database experience (SQL, Oracle)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, code management (bitbucket, Gitlab), CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure
• Utilized code review tools such as SonarQube
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Cypress, Mocha etc
• Knowledge of Siebel CRM webservices is a plus
• Hands on experience with Google Cloud Platform is a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving abilities and ability to drive technical solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Driven leader with ability to mentor and motivate team members and foster positive and productive team culture (This is critical skill for the role in addition to technical expertise)
• Experience working in agile development environment (Kanban, Scrum)

Experience:

• 8+ years in full stack software development with hands on experience with front end (React, Angular), backend technologies (java, node.js) and web service integrations
• 5+ years of experience with databases such as Oracle, SQL
• 2+ years of experience in a tech lead role demonstrating leadership and team management skills
• 5+ years of experience in banking / finance industry

Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree with computer science or equivalent

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $95,000 to $120,000 annually depending on location and job-related factors such as level of experience. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for short-term incentive compensation and deferred incentive compensation subject to individual and company performance.

Please click here for a list of benefits for which this position is eligible.

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