Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Leads the design, development, implementation, testing, and analysis of software applications to meet enterprise-wide business and user needs.
• Consults with managers and directors to understand business needs and propose new and improved software applications.
• Prepares reports to provide recommendations, conclusions, and other data.
• Hires, supervises, and evaluates staff.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.
• Lead technical design and architecture discussions, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and align with long-term technology goals.
• Manage the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including sprint planning, resource allocation, and project timelines, using agile methodologies.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, provide ongoing mentorship, and support the professional growth of individual software developers.
• Define and enforce team-wide coding standards and best practices through consistent code reviews to maintain software quality and consistency.
• Act as the primary technical contact for product managers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications.
• Oversee the software release and deployment process, including the management of CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and timely delivery of new features.
• Direct the recruitment and hiring process for new developers, from interviewing technical candidates to facilitating team integration.
• Mentor junior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to production incidents, and conduct post-incident reviews.
• Contribute to technical architecture discussions and document design decisions.
• Ensure best practices in code quality, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud deployments (AWS).
• Champion security, compliance, and data privacy standards across the platform.

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, engineering, or a related field and five years of related experience in programming and software systems, including project management experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Experience in a lead or supervisory role.
• Knowledge of software development in a research institution context preferred.
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science is preferred.
• Coursework to include a strong foundation in programming languages, software architecture, and project management principles is essential.
• Extensive experience in the software development field is a primary requirement, with five or more years of hands‑on software development experience.
• 2+ years of production experience with Node.js, VUE or React, NUXT or NEXT.
• Ability to read unfamiliar code and understand it at the architectural level before modifying it.
• Ability to translate vague feature requests into concrete technical plans.
• Technical development expertise in the following areas:
  JavaScript, Node.js, VUE or React, NUXT or NEXT, Tailwind.js, GraphQL, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Office, etc.
• API (Application Programming Interface) experience, preferably REST and GraphQL APIs.
• .NET knowledge for supporting existing applications to move to Node.
  
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• Expertise in using various reporting environments such as Oracle Analytics Server, eBIZ, and others.
• Good decision making, organization, analysis, and problem-solving skills with the ability to multitask.
• Basic understanding of AWS cloud services and cloud-based application development is preferred.
• Docker/containerization experience is a plus.