Lead Software Engineer
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Job Description
If youre looking for an exciting high-profile opportunity then youve come to the right place! We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who will take a hands-on leadership role in delivering innovative scalable technology solutions that drive our customer experience and business growth. You will work across teams to drive architectural decisions mentor engineers and guide development practices that reflect the best in agile engineering and DevOps.
Our ideal candidate is self-motivated technically strong passionate about quality and committed to continuous improvement. Youll help shape our engineering culture and influence how we build ship and scale modern software systems.
Key Responsibilities
Technology & Architecture
- Design code test and release new application features that contribute to our business growth while ensuring performance scalability and security.
- Develop resilient cloud-native containerized applications (preferably in AWS).
- Drive architectural evolution toward a microservices-based distributed event-driven platform supporting web-scale transactions.
- Leverage modern architectural practices such as domain-driven design event streaming and feature flags (canary deployments circuit breakers etc.).
- Build and maintain high-performance RESTful APIs using Spring/Spring Boot 2.x.
- Ensure full-stack ownership of featuresfrom development through production monitoring and incident resolution.
- Work with technologies like Kafka Postgres/MySQL Docker Kubernetes and monitoring tools.
Agile Practices & Delivery
- Lead Agile development in a fast-paced Scrum environment ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of software.
- Contribute to our DevOps culture by advocating for CI/CD automated testing and performance monitoring.
- Collaborate with product managers business analysts QA and other engineers to translate requirements into reliable technical solutions.
- Conduct POCs and evaluate emerging technologies that can accelerate delivery or enhance developer experience.
- Participate in internal hackathons to promote innovation and cross-team collaboration.
Leadership & Mentorship
- Mentor and coach engineers promoting professional growth and high team morale.
- Lead by example promoting a quality-first customer-focused engineering culture.
- Act as a technical advisor across teams and functions helping unblock challenges and align technology decisions with business goals.
- Advocate for clean code scalable systems and best practices in design and development.
- Support operational excellence through clear documentation monitoring and incident response processes.
Qualifications :
- 7 years of software development experience including at least 2 years in a lead or senior engineering role.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and influence architecture.
- Expert-level skills in Java and modern frameworks such as Spring Boot.
- Strong experience with REST APIs cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and relational databases (MySQL/Postgres).
- Experience with event-driven systems and stream processing (e.g. Kafka).
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker Kubernetes).
- Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
Additional Information :
SquareTrade is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race religion color national origin sex gender identity gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or ability status.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
