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Intertwined

Software Development Team Lead (Remote/FTE)

Full Time
Austin, TX, USA
Description

The Denzel Group has been requested to search for a Software Development Team Lead by a leading commercial insurance company.


This Perm FTE position is Fully Remote with occasional travel onsite required (1 to 4 times per year). The position offers competitive salary, PTO, Health Benefits, 401k, etc.


NO SPONSORSHIP OFFERED - PERM RESIDENTS ONLY


ROLE SUMMARY

This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills. Developers in the Team Lead position will lead a dev team, help coordinate the day-to-day activities of various team members, assist team with roadblocks, and lead planning sessions. This developer will work closely with the team’s product owner to become a subject matter expert (SME) for the domain. They will also serve as individual contributors on the dev team, taking on tasks for both technical design and development.


Job Responsibilities

  • Lead a cross functional, agile development team including members from development, quality assurance, and business analysts

  • Serve as technical SME for a particular domain within the overall platform

  • Provide guidance and mentoring including pair programming, code reviews, demos, group/1:1 coaching, and career development planning

  • Design system features to meet business objectives while fitting into the enterprise platform ecosystem

  • Contribute to cross-team platform design decisions

  • Collaborate with Product team to ensure that requirements are understood, and short-term and long-term business objectives are met

  • Follow department-wide technical, process, and quality standards while contributing to their improvement

  • Participate in staffing decisions including interviews and hiring

  • Take a lead role in creating technical documentation and content, ensuring that knowledge is transferred across the team

  • Day to day code contributions to our repo completing user stories/tasks

  • Guide the team regarding unit testing; collaborate closely with QA leadership to guarantee successful functional and regression testing of all features

  • Ensure that the team achieves system performance goals

  • Lead the dev team to think with a security first mindset

  • Take ownership of problems and solutions, being proactive to ensure success

  • Provide innovative problem-solving skills, thinking outside the box

  • Occasional travel to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PA area for strategy meetings (several times per year)

  • Normal working hours based on Eastern US time

Requirements
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/related field or equivalent working experience

  • 10+ years of experience as a software developer, primarily using C#

  • Excellent programming, debugging, and troubleshooting skills with C# and .NET

  • 3+ years of experience leading development teams

  • Enterprise level system architecture experience, designing and delivering RESTful APIs, integrations, and complex business processes

  • Enterprise level design and configuration of cloud services including serverless, data storage, messaging, logging, etc., preferably with Azure

  • Experience with design and implementation of both monolithic and microservice architectures

  • Experience designing reliable and performant data storage solutions and schemas utilizing cloud technologies including SQL DBs, Document DBs, and unstructured data

  • Experience with creating CI/CD pipelines supporting Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, collaboration capabilities, and attention to detail

  • Experience working on large software development projects while collaborating across multiple agile teams

Preferred Qualifications

  • Commercial Property and Casualty insurance experience

  • Practical working knowledge of ASP.NET MVC, and .NET Core

  • Experience with TypeScript and SPA frameworks (Angular, React, etc.)

* Internal job title may vary as we have multiple internal levels of Team Lead*




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