Lead Digital Software Development Engineer

AAA Club Alliance is hiring for a Lead Engineer Digital Software Development to join our team!

This role follows a hybrid schedule and will require on-site work 3 days per week (Tuesday through Thursday).

What We Offer:

As part of our team youll enjoy a total rewards package designed to support your well-being growth and work-life balance. Our package includes:

• A competitive salary; the starting base salary range is: $100384 to $170815.

• Annual Bonus Annual Merit Increase Eligibility

• Hybrid schedule (3 days on-site weekly)

• Comprehensive health benefits package

• 3 weeks of paid time off accrued during your first year

• 401(K) plan with company match up to 7%

• Professional development opportunities and tuition reimbursement

• Paid time off to volunteer & company-sponsored volunteer events throughout the year

• Other benefits include a free AAA Premier Membership Health & Wellness Program Health Concierge Service Life Insurance and Short Term/Long Term Disability

* The base pay range shown is a guideline for compensation and ultimate salary offered will be based on factors such as applicant experience and geographic location.*

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for modern web applications built primarily with React and ensuring scalable performant and maintainable implementations.

• Guide the team in implementing rendering strategies including server-side rendering (SSR) static generation routing and data-fetching patterns.

• Lead implementation decisions related to component architecture state management accessibility and performance optimization in React-based applications.

• Collaborate with back-end and platform teams using a working understanding -based application programming interfaces (APIs) and SQL-backed data sources to support integrations and troubleshooting.

• Serve as the final authority on team-level technical implementation decisions coding standards and design patterns.

• Translate architecture designs and solution guidance provided by the Digital Solutions Architect into clear build-ready technical approaches for the engineering team.

• Lead hands-on development activities including complex feature implementation refactoring and performance optimization.

• Establish and enforce best practices for code quality security testing and deployment aligned with DevSecOps standards.

• Conduct and oversee code reviews to ensure consistency maintainability scalability and adherence to standards.

• Identify technical risks early and propose mitigation strategies in collaboration with the Engineering Manager.

• Guide engineers in estimating technical effort and complexity for features and enhancements.

• Support sprint planning and delivery by advising on technical feasibility and sequencing of work.

• Mentor engineers and senior engineers through technical coaching pairing and design reviews.

• Drive resolution of complex technical issues production incidents and systemic defects.

• Collaborate closely with Quality Assurance (QA) Product UX and Architecture to ensure solutions meet functional non-functional and quality requirements.

• Ensure systems meet performance availability accessibility and security expectations.

• Contribute to technical documentation including design decisions standards and implementation guidelines.

• Stay current with emerging technologies frameworks and industry best practices relevant to the digital platform.

• Participate in proof-of-concepts and technical spikes as needed to validate approaches.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree (BA/BS) or equivalent in Computer Sciences Business Administration or related field required; Masters degree completed or work in progress towards a graduate degree preferred. Equivalent combination of education technical training and experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

• Minimum of 8- years of progressive experience in software development required.

• Strong hands-on experience designing and building production web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks .

• Experience working with application data models and integrations supporting business processes required.

• Demonstrated experience designing developing testing and leading the implementation of large-scale customer-facing applications including systems that integrate with enterprise data stores required.

• Experience with version control systems such as Git as well as website analytics tools such as Google Analytics required.

• Experience working within Agile development methodologies required.

• Professional Certification in at least one major development tool is required with 3 or more preferred.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Expert-level knowledge of modern web application development and application architecture.

• Expert-level proficiency in modern frontend technologies and JavaScript/TypeScript with strong hands-on experience designing and building scalable production web applications and integrating with enterprise CMS platforms (Sitecore preferred).

• Proven ability to guide and mentor engineers in complex technical environments.

• Working knowledge -based services and SQL sufficient to support integration troubleshooting and collaboration with back-end teams.

• Ability to work with cloud hosting CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices (Vercel or equivalent).

• Strong understanding of system performance optimization scalability and resilience.

• Ability to work with version control systems such as Git.

• Working knowledge of security best practices accessibility standards (WCAG) and SEO principles.

• Ability to analyze complex technical problems and drive practical maintainable solutions.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to lead without formal authority and influence technical outcomes across the team.

Full time Associatesare offered a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Medical Dental and Vision plan options
• Up to 2 weeks Paid parental leave
• 401k plan with company match up to 7%
• 2 weeks of PTO within your first year
• Paid company holidays
• Company provided volunteer opportunities 1 volunteer day per year
• Free AAA Membership
• Continual learning reimbursement up to $5250 per year
• And MORE! Check out our Benefits Pagefor more information

ACA is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal state and local employment practices laws. At ACA we are committed to cultivating a welcoming and inclusive workplace of team members with diverse backgrounds and experiences to enable us to meet our goals and support our values while serving our Members and customers. We strive to attract and retain candidates with a passion for their work and we encourage all qualified individuals to apply. It is ACAs policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all positions. Hiring decisions are based upon ACAs operating needs and applicant qualifications including but not limited to experience skills ability availability cooperation and job performance.

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