Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ten Mile Square Technologies is a high-end technology consulting firm based in the Northern Virginia area. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead a remote-first team in greenfield development of a loan origination system for a financial institution, focusing on software development methods and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers, software engineer in test automation (SDET), and DevOps
• Architect, design, and build a telephony integration system using Node, Apollo GraphQL, Angular or React, and a suite of AWS components including but not limited to EKS, Lambda, S3, MSK, and Aurora.  The components are primarily backend systems, but some frontend development will be needed
• Design and implement GraphQL subgraphs and participate in a federated graph schema community of practice
• Define and enforce engineering best practices around code quality, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows on AWS
• Contribute as member of an Agile team and promote Agile practices
• Work with client executives and product team to translate business needs into requirements, epics, stories, and tasks
• Work with the client product team to groom the backlog, plan workstreams, plan sprints, and assign sprints and tasks to software engineers
• Work with principal engineers and the product team to help determine functional requirements for the system
• Mentor developers on the team
• Ensure technical documentation is of quality and accessible to technology team
• Proactively collaborate with the Ten Mile team on development and knowledge sharing
• Represent yourself and Ten Mile Square with integrity, expertise, and value
• Maintain the confidentiality of our clients on an ongoing basis

Skills

• 2 years of experience as a tech lead
• 3 years of experience as a senior software engineer
• 7+ years of software development experience including 3 years of TypeScript and Node
• 2 years of experience working with GraphQL
• Expertise in developing and deploying on AWS
• Expertise in SQL
• Working knowledge of at least one of the following frontend JavaScript frameworks: Angular, Ionic, React, Vue
• Full application stack development experience: front-end to persistence
• Full software lifecycle participation: requirements to post-implementation
• Linux command line
• Self-motivated to PROACTIVELY identify and solve problems
• Be passionate about what you do
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly
• Detail-oriented
• High integrity and quality of work ethic
• Excellent communication skills – within team and with clients

Benefits

• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (including family)
• 100% company paid individual short- and long- term disability
• 100% company paid vision insurance

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