Lead Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Avero as a Lead Full Stack Engineer and lead a team of engineers in designing and implementing internal and user-facing applications. You will foster a collaborative engineering culture, mentor team members, and contribute to hiring and onboarding. This 100% remote role reports to the Director of Engineering and requires strong technical skills, leadership experience, and excellent communication abilities. You will be responsible for the technical infrastructure, practices, and priorities within your team's purview. Avero offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Hands-on, expert-level Angular experience
• Intermediate React experience
• Ability to integrate with and troubleshoot integrations with REST and GraphQL APIs
• A metrics driven approach to leadership, mentoring, and processes
• 6+ years of software development experience, preferably with 2 or more years of technical lead or engineering manager experience
• A strong commitment to collaboration in a remote-first engineering organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineers in an agile environment, including day-to-day people manager responsibilities of your direct reports
• Mentor the engineers on your team and work closely with them on their professional development
• Take responsibility for the technical infrastructure, practices, and priorities within your team’s purview
• Develop roadmaps, milestones, and goals for your engineering team in conjunction with a product manager
• Set and manage expectations and KPIs for your team
• Foster a culture of accountability on the team as they deliver against those expectations
• Coordinate with other leads and product managers during cross team projects
• Align teams across departments to achieve strategic goals that you have influenced
• Build relationships with senior leadership and leverage those relationships to advocate for ideas, initiatives, and your team
• Lead by example as you design and implement software as a senior individual contributor on your team
• Occasionally share in on-call duties to support our production infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Overlap with the rest of our existing technology stack, including expertise in a few of these areas. We can help you ramp up where there are gaps. Our key technology areas include: SQL - we use Postgres and Oracle
• NoSQL - we use MongoDB
• Backend system technologies - we use Java, Node.js , Apollo GraphQL, gRPC, and more
• Frontend system technologies - we use React, React Native, and AngularJS
• Cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies - we use AWS, Terraform and Docker
• Experience working within remote or geographically distributed teams is preferable
• Hospitality experience (technology or otherwise)
• A love of good food

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, coupled with an emphasis on work/life balance
• Employer-sponsored benefits package including Health, Dental and Vision insurance
• We are a remote employer!
• Health Savings Account with contributions from Avero quarterly!
• Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Company Paid Disability, Life Insurance and AD&D
• Commuter Benefits (for those in NYC!)
• 401k and Company Match
• Parental Leave
• ClassPass Discounts
• Equity in the company – all employees have a stake in our growth!