Lead Full Stack Engineer

We’re looking for a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer (backend focused) who is a self-starter and can learn quickly, maintain focus, work collaboratively in an Agile environment, and contribute to the improvement of our QA and release processes.

What you’ll do:

• Provide mentorship and guidance to the team members to achieve highest levels of quality and productivity
• Lead the software development projects from idea to implementation by tracking and managing progress, risks and dependencies
• Help software architects to design solutions to support growing business needs while thoroughly considering the system impact
• Work closely with product, marketing and other business stakeholders to gather and refine requirements, and release software in a timely fashion
• Work closely with creative and UX teams to help build and maintain design system/pattern library
• Be adaptive and strike a good balance between speed and efficiency
• 25-50% hands-on development
• Develop a deep understanding of the system, write technical specifications, mentor development team, enforce coding standards
• Contribute in change control policies, software builds, deployment strategies, code reviews and software recommendations
• Support the daily operations of the IT/Tech department
• Take part in agile ceremonies to estimate and execute programming projects
• Other duties required by Management

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required
• 8+ years of hands on programming experience
• 5+ years building responsible websites using HTML, CSS and Javascript
• 5+ years of hands on programming on the .NET (4.0+) platform using C#
• Expert in implementing ASP.NET (WebForms and MVC) solutions as well as IIS management
• Experience working with TypeScript, ES6/ES7
• Exposure to front-end frameworks such as Bootstrap or Foundation
• Previous experience with CSS pre-processors like LESS or SASS
• Strong understanding of web optimization techniques
• Hands on experience writing tests using automation frameworks (Jasmine, Karma, etc.)
• Expert level programming with jQuery including AJAX and DOM manipulation
• Proven success implementing client side frameworks such as Angular, React. Experience with Node.js is a plus
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
• Experience building backend APIs for the front-ends you have worked on
• Minimum 3 years experience leading agile development teams
• Extensive knowledge of software development, QA methodologies & release process
• Knowledge of object-oriented design and proven implementation skills
• Expert experience working with source control tools (TFS, SVN, or GIT) with strong understanding of build automation
• Hands on knowledge of design patterns such as MVP, MVC, MVVM, VIPER
• Proficiency in using architectural design utilities like Visio, ERDs, UML
• Strong attention to detail and work ethic
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

Preferred Skills:

• Strong experience with various CMS’s. Experience with Drupal a strong plus.
• Previous experience building component driven Javascript SDK is very desirable
• Experience with LAMP stack is very desirable
• Experience working with A/B testing tools (Optimizely, etc.)
• Experience working with web analytics and marketing systems (Tealium, Google Analytics, etc.)