Lead Software Engineer

Overview

This is a hybrid role - 2 days remote and 3 days in the Malvern, PA office.

Cube Smart is currently seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Information Technology team at our corporate office in Malvern, PA. The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for the technical innovation and leadership of Cube Smart’s enterprise store operating platform.

Who we are:

At Cube Smart, we’re intentional about culture. You can experience it everywhere from our mission statement of “genuine care” to our “It’s What’s Inside That Counts” tagline to calling each other “teammates” rather than employees. This spirit fosters a fun and collaborative environment that has resulted in our rapid growth and being recognized amongst the top in our industry.

Cube Smart’s award-winning team is made up of people who genuinely care. Teammates care about our customers and the life events and/or business needs they are facing. Teammates are passionate, responsible and understanding. The Cube Smart team is made up of people who have a can-do attitude, are committed to their own success and the success of the company, and lead by example.

If this sounds like a team and culture that matches your personal values and motivations, we want to hear from you.

Working in collaboration with the hosting and infrastructure teams, this role will own the technical delivery of the application, from requirements to successful delivery into production and then managing and enhancing it to ensure a seamless customer, team member and partner experience.

This Teammate will adopt an agile yet stable and secure approach to development leveraging core engineering principles and develop a culture of high performance, urgency, and productivity.

The Lead Software Engineer is expected to have proven experience in building and delivering highly complex platform and strong technical background, and experience with modern technologies and leveraging best practices in the areas of open source tech solutions, and in managing software development and agile methodologies. In addition, working with the Manager of Software Engineering, this leader will build and lead a highly technical team of developers and engineers.

• Completely own the technical delivery of the application stack. In doing this, the Lead Engineer will be required to translate complex functional specifications to detail technical designs regarding Test Case, Security, Testing Automation, User Interfaces (UI), application functionality, middleware technologies, API, deployment artifacts, artifact packaging, and application monitoring automation, logging, and performance metrics
• Serve as the strategist who researches technologies and frameworks, and creates reference implementations for the team members to follow
• Lead sprint planning meetings, author specific stories, plan and lead spikes to ensure that the team understands their objectives and has committed to completing their work on an agreed-upon timeline
• Own the development environment, development tooling strategy and tool chains for effective and efficient delivery of software in support of the chosen methodologies.
• Create detailed design, perform pull request reviews, and mentor the team on coding best practices
• Adopt a product mentality and define goals, consider trade-offs, prioritize, drive decisions, and execute on them
• Servant leader to the team, actively working towards team goals and success
• Demonstrate dedication to support the high availability mission critical platform during off hours and holidays as needed.

• Demonstrated affinity for continuous learning specifically in the technology domain and how to leverage it for building great reliable products
• Bachelor’ Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent related technical field
• At least 10+ years’ experience building, leading, managing and supporting omni channel commerce platforms using current and emerging technology stacks
• Experience leading development team, building roadmaps, and adopting principles and standards in the design, development, and delivery of solutions
• Experience with Dev Ops and working with Infrastructure as Code…