Leads software development teams delivering scalable software for financial and technology clients. Oversees team performance, mentoring, Agile development strategies, product roadmaps, architecture, code reviews, feature delivery, and organizational policies. Requires extensive software engineering experience, team leadership, cloud platforms, relational and NoSQL databases, distributed systems, API design, technical documentation, and project delivery from requirements through launch.
Ensures team processes are understood, followed, and improved. Responsible for developing and evaluating personnel to ensure efficient operation, continued growth, and positive employee engagement. Responsible for ensuring the delivery of business goals assigned to the team. Responsibilities:
Requirements:
- Leading a team to develop quality software that is used by some of the world’s largest technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and security traders on Wall Street
- Responsible for ensuring a team’s success, growth, and output
- Providing training, guidance, and mentorship to individuals on the team
- Participating in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap
- Producing tremendous feature enhancements and reacting quickly to emerging technologies
- Encouraging collaboration and stimulating creativity
- Providing leadership and expertise to our ever-growing workforce
- Develops corporate and/or organizational policies and authorizes their implementation.
- Detailed knowledge of company allows for innovative concepts and promoting new ideas.
- Provides direction to senior managers in various areas, groups, and/or operations.
- Recognized as an influential leader.
- Consistently works with abstract ideas or situations across functional areas of the business.
- Through assessment of intangible variables, identifies and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas.
- Requires in-depth knowledge of the functional area, business strategies, and the company’s goals.
- Erroneous decisions will have a long-term effect on the company's success.
- Interacts internally and externally with executive level management, requiring negotiation of extremely critical matters. Influences policymaking.
- Directs and controls the activities of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups or service areas through senior managers who have overall responsibility for the successful operation of those assigned areas.
Requirements:
- Demonstrated ability to provide constructive feedback to team members
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
- Ability to resolve conflict within and across teams and drive consensus to achieve common goals
- Ability to provide technical feedback and guidance on architecture, code review, and best practices
- 10+ years professional experience in software development
- 2+ years of experience leading a development team.
- Excellent written and verbal skills.
- Ability to contribute to software design documentation, presentation, sequence diagrams
- Ability to present complex technical designs in a concise manner.
- Ability to work with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience building highly scalable distributed software systems
- Professional experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Experience taking a project from scoping requirements through actual launch
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques, including (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript)
- Experience in full system design and architecture
- Experience developing and designing a public facing API
- Experience with database scaling and design
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