Lead Software Engineer II

Lead Software Engineer II

Chicago, IL 60601

Minimum: USD $140,000.00/Yr.

Maximum: USD $170,000.00/Yr.

Lead Software Engineer II

As a Lead Software Engineer at Advantage Solutions, you will lead highly skilled software engineers in designing and developing products that follow best architectural practices and coding standards. You will be hands-on in developing clean and maintainable full-stack applications in collaboration with the cross-functional engineering teams. In addition to having strong technical expertise, the Lead software engineer must also have the requisite soft skills to help foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement on the team.

What we offer:

• Full-Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)

• 401(k) with company match

• Training and Career Development

• Generous Paid Time-Off

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with various stakeholders to determine software requirements

• Overseeing the entire software development lifecycle for a team of software engineers and providing technical direction

• Taking full-stack ownership of the product by consistently writing production-ready, and testable code

• Consistently creating optimal design adhering to architectural best practices, scalability, reliability, security, and performance

• Designing, building, documenting, implementing, and operationalizing highly scalable, available, reliable products and applications that are continuously integrated and deployed using automated CI-CD pipelines

• Enabling APM, exception logging, user analytics, monitoring, and alerting for all products and services

• Consistently planning and executing efforts to address technical debt

• Ensuring continuous integration and continuous deployment model is followed across the responsible products and systems

• Evangelizing new coding standards, design patterns, and programming concepts for the team

• Consistently creating and maintaining technical documentation throughout the software development life cycle

• Code Reviews

Secondary Responsibilities

• Conducting knowledge-sharing sessions within the team to enhance the team's knowledge base

• Consistently monitoring the software development maturity standards and fine-tuning controls like style guidelines, code coverage, and static code analysis for continuous improvement

• Triaging product or system issues in production, debugging, performing root cause analysis, implementing the resolution and preventive measures to maintain the stability of the system

• Continuously improving your domain knowledge by attending trainings and leveraging corporate learning tools

• Fostering a product mindset, identifying opportunities for improving application functionality and performance issues by working with cross-functional teams

Requirements:

• Outstanding collaboration and communication skills are essential

• 8+ years of experience with the following:

• Backend development with technologies like C#, .NET core, ASP.Net

• Frontend development with technologies like Angular, React, HTML5, CSS3

• Cloud services, serverless technology, and microservices like Function-as-a-Service, Containers, and managed databases (Azure preferred)

• Database design, development and management. Having Managed Cloud Database Service, SSIS and Data Factory Skills will be an advantage.

• Experience with the following:

• Experience with Power Platform designing and developing Power Apps, Power Automate Flows and Power BI Integration. Familiarity with Power Platform governance best practices and compliance.

• Developing web applications using REST APIs, microservices, relational and noSQL databases

• Working with concepts and methodologies such as domain-driven design, API-first approach, test driven development

• Implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines with added stages for automated unit tests, code coverage, styling guidelines and static code analysis.

• Developing applications with instrumentation for APM, exception logging and user analytics (Azure Application Insights preferred)

• Mentoring and guiding junior developers

• Test Driven Development - Automation of unit and Integration Testing.

• Knowledge of QA Automation will be an advantage.

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled