Technical Lead

About the role

• As a Technical Leader, you will be responsible for the quality of the team's technical deliverables, establishing a technical vision with the development team, and working with developers to turn that vision into reality. 

What you will do

• Generate an appropriate context for his team to reach company goals, be productive and promote growth. 
• Mentor and guide team members to improve and grow technically and professionally. 
• Work with HR and recruiting to retain and hire talent. 
• Work with technology leaders to continuously improve proceses, practices, metrics and tooling. 
• Work closely with Creative, Business, Technology and QA teams to ensure the technology will be functional and meet goals and objectives. 
• Debug complex issues in existing software applications. 
• Provide proactive feedback on policies and procedures when an opportunity for improvement exists. 
• Must be able to make tradeoffs between technical needs and business needs. 
• Work closely with product owner to execute business and technical goals. 
• Serving your team as a leader, empowering and removing impediments. 
• Ensure software developed by the team meets all requirements of quality, security, re-usability, extensibility, etc. 

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related disciplines, or equivalent practical experience. 
• Between 4 - 6 years of software development experience. 
• At least 2 years working with agile methodologies, preferably Scrum.
• Advanced-level knowledge of at least one modern object oriented programming language (Java, Swift, Kotlin, etc). 
• Knowledge and proven experience in handling software design patterns and architecture patterns. 
• Work experience with data storage, namely relational (SQL) and/or non-relational (NoSQL, MongoDB) platforms 
• Capable of working with new technologies and building proof of concept prototypes. 
• Capable of troubleshooting, debugging and doing root cause analysis of web platform issues. 
• Experience working with AWS services. 
• Capable of communicating well with both developers and management
• Proficiency in relevant programming languages and development frameworks (Java, Spring). 
• People leadership and direction experience.