Senior Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Principal Software Engineer (Team Lead) at Nerdery, where you'll oversee software development life-cycles, provide technical guidance, and lead complex projects. As a Team Lead, you'll bridge the gap between technical expertise and client needs, utilizing your extensive professional experience to design resilient solutions and applications.

Requirements

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in a computer-related field or coding bootcamp certificate
• 15+ years of software development experience
• 6+ years of software architecture experience, including familiarity with modern design patterns
• Proven track record of successfully leading and delivering multi-million dollar projects
• Extensive experience with CMS driven applications (preferably Drupal) - both traditional and decoupled architectures - with React ecosystem driven front-end UIs
• Solid Java back-end experience, with a familiarity with Kotlin
• Solid Python experience, including familiarity with Flask and Django based applications
• Demonstrated comprehension of complex software using expert-level understanding of code patterns, application architecture, and best practices
• Experience with version control systems such as Git
• Demonstrated expertise in using and implementing CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms
• Ability to design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for various applications
• Exceptional verbal and visual technical communication skills
• Strong systems architecture experience
• In-depth understanding of the software development process and the ability to maintain an iterative approach throughout the project lifecycle

Responsibilities

• Accountable to the entire technical lifecycle of a large-scale custom software project
• Technically evaluate, develop, and supervise a highly-effective software development team
• Own the technical review process for project team members, providing ongoing feedback and recommendations
• Manage the software delivery process by proactively identifying complex problems, developing mitigation approaches, and documenting decisions
• Recommend and justify modern architectural strategies for clients’ technical roadmaps
• Partner with develop leads to serve as the architect for multiple software engineering squads
• Foster cross-functional collaboration as the primary technical liaison between engineering and other project disciplines
• Participate in the internal leadership of their respective domain, contributing to strategic direction, assisting with initiatives, and maintaining coding best practices
• Explain complex concerns across multiple levels of abstraction and audiences
• Assess the technical skills of prospective candidates and provide recommendations to hiring managers
• Provide ad-hoc technical support to other practitioners in the domain as needed
• Assist with sales requests by providing technical recommendations, estimates, and creating reusable estimation templates
• Be a representative and advocate of Nerdery’s depth of talent by regularly publishing articles, blog posts, or whitepapers, and/or contributing to GCP related open source projects, and/or speaking at industry conferences

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours
• Life and disability insurance
• Bonuses and incentives
• Professional development opportunities
• Wellness programs
• Family and parental leave