Lead Software Engineer

Summary

Join Agnos, a healthcare technology consultancy, as a Lead Software Engineer! You will lead a team of offshore developers through the agile development lifecycle, working closely with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications. Responsibilities include building interactive web applications, collaborating with onshore and offshore engineers, performing code reviews, and identifying process improvements. You will mentor junior team members and ensure adherence to software quality standards. This remote position offers competitive salaries, profit-sharing, performance bonuses, and the ability to work from anywhere globally.

Requirements

• 7+ years of full stack experience developing performant, scalable, web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment, in Ruby on Rails and React
• Be comfortable leading and / or managing teams of remote developers
• Have delivered and supported commercial, enterprise software
• Have extensive full stack development experience and have proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g. Ruby, Java, Typescript)
• Be goal-oriented, self-motivated and able to be successful in a schedule-driven, fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Possess excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills
• Be a tinkerer at heart with an innate ability to solve tough programming problems
• Have a deep understanding of object-oriented or functional programming design paradigms
• Have strong practical experience building RESTful microservices, event-based distributed systems
• Have a good understanding of the system architecture, and time-complexity trade-offs
• Be responsible for production services and mentor others in scalable aspects of Cloud services
• Have a passion to Innovate and grow
• Have significant Experience troubleshooting multi-tiered systems
• Be well versed in best practices of growing a code base, Competent in REST, and Write performant SQL
• Have formal design knowledge and be aware of design principles like SOLID, agile principles like YAGNI, etc
• Have a deep understanding of infrastructure architecture and how to troubleshoot microservices in production services
• Be excellent at troubleshooting multi-tiered systems and have worked with observability tools
• Proactively ask questions for clarification and possess good coding standards
• Be quickly able to think of different approaches that can be taken during schema design and also provide the pros and cons of each
• Have proficiency developing and deploying for cloud platforms like AWS
• Be highly proficient in written and spoken English
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of offshore developers through the agile development lifecycle
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team
• Mentor junior team members and ensure they adhere to determined software quality standards by helping them write testable, scalable and efficient code
• Build highly interactive web-based application UIs that can scale with application complexity
• Work independently and collaboratively with a blended team of onshore and offshore engineers to well-structured, reliable, efficient and easily maintainable code
• Gain a deep understanding of the product and business goals which you can translate into technology decisions
• Perform code reviews and use continuous integration to deliver high-quality software
• Leveraging agile practices, encourage collaboration, prioritization, and urgency to develop at a rapid pace
• Identify gaps or deficiencies in the existing product or processes and advocate for the necessary changes to address them
• Learn and master new and emerging technologies and take initiative to offer technical direction and creative solutions to business problems
• Work to ensure that the system meets client’s quality, security, scalability, and performance standards
• Bring out-of-the-box ideas to improve system performance and stability and collaborate on architectural design decisions

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience working in the healthcare industry is an added advantage

Benefits

• Competitive salaries (or hourly rates)
• Profit-sharing
• Performance bonus
• Commission and equity
• Remote work, Ability to work from anywhere in the world from the comfort of your home