Technical Lead

Summary

Join OpenSesame as a Technical Lead and improve skills by working with engineers in global teams, leading by example to teach and mentor them. The ideal candidate will work on Node/React and PHP codebases, identify challenges, and coach teams in addressing them.

Requirements

Experience in Extreme Programming (XP) practices—such as test-driven development, continuous deployment, and evolutionary design

Responsibilities

• Form rapport with team members (including Product and Design) and engineering leaders
• Understand your team’s process and how people work together
• Understand engineers’ needs and frustrations
• Pair and mob with team members to develop their skills as part of their normal work
• Advise engineering managers on how to take advantage of team members’ strengths and how to address their weaknesses
• Understand how to use your team’s products
• Understand how your team’s work fits into the big picture
• Understand your team’s code, design, architecture, and tech stack
• Mentor team members in collectively owning their work
• Mentor team members in working incrementally
• Collaborate with senior team members on test-driven development, pairing, and teaming/mobbing
• Mentor team members in improving build processes to achieve zero-friction local development and continuous integration
• Mentor team members in creating fast, reliable tests based on James Shore’s “Testing Without Mocks” pattern language
• Mentor team members in incrementally refactoring their code

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off