Lead Software Engineer

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Named a Top Workplace in the USA and Top Remote Workplace, Kobie is where the best minds in loyalty come together, driven by passion and innovation. We’re always looking for talented individuals who are ready to join a collaborative, growth-focused culture. As a partner to some of the world’s most recognized brands, we are leaders in loyalty, helping brands build lasting emotional connections with their consumers.

While our headquarters are nestled in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida, Kobie embraces a flexible work environment, offering teammates the freedom to work remotely. We understand the importance of work-life balance and support our team with:

• Flexible Time Off to recharge when needed
• Nine Company-Wide Holidays
• A diverse suite of benefits prioritizing your growth, development, and personal well-being

Discover more about our perks and benefits here.

Kobie is a values-led organization where we believe that everyone is a leader, regardless of their position or role.

You are a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years experience in the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, automated build processes, testing, peer review, and Dev Ops. You are a critical thinker with experience prioritizing and negotiating several competing efforts and maintaining productivity through numerous context changes. You have led development teams and know how to define and commit to a body of work in which you ensure the successful delivery by breaking it down into consumable parts and collaborating with key team members.

An attribute you excel at is the ability to drive out ambiguity in the technology solutions we build in order to bring value to our customers.

• Gain the respect of your team and coach engineers at multiple levels to apply best practices when solutioning work items for our products.
• Support and lead all phases of the Agile methodology (grooming, designing, coding, testing)
• Focus on outcomes as opposed to output and ensure timely delivery of high quality, flexible and maintainable solutions.
• Participate in design sessions; work with product owners to ensure your solutions meet the needs of the business and our customers.
• Assist other team members with questions and provide guidance and mentorship on best practices and new technology adoption.
• Promote and demonstrate good coding practice and patterns for the team
• Establish and reinforce standards in the areas of coding, design, security, automation, and testing.
• Create and maintain a highly engaging and respectful work environment that encourages learning and the advancement of our people, process, and tooling.

• Experience leading development teams who are responsible for the successful delivery of prioritized roadmap items
• Experience designing and developing applications and components using J2EE technologies, SOA architecture, with sound knowledge in front end technologies to deliver vertical slices of value
• Deep experience with service-oriented architecture and API development within a containerized deployment environment
• Experience with distributed computing and object-oriented design and analysis
• Strong relational database skills using Postgre
  
  SQL / Oracle
• Strong knowledge of Enterprise Messaging/Integration Patterns
• Experience in developing XML / JSON based web-services
• Experience in Java technologies: JMS, MDB, JPA (Hibernate)
• Familiarity with key Java frameworks and libraries such as Spring (Boot, MVC, Security, Data), Hibernate/JPA, and relevant testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito)
• Experience with high-volume, real-time applications
• In depth experience with Agile (e.g., Scrum Process)
• Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ
• Java, Bamboo/GIT, Open source components and frameworks
• Experience with Test Driven Development and BDD

• Experience with Spring frameworks (Core, Boot, Batch, Data, REST)
• Extensive experience in Microservices Architecture, GraphQL
• Build Management tools (Git Hub Actions, Hudson)
• Familiarity and experience with AI/ML driven tooling
• AWS,…