Lead Software Engineer

Ten Mile Square Technologies is a high-end technology consulting firm based in the Northern Virginia area. Our customers routinely call upon us to solve some of the largest scale and hardest problems in computer science and software development. If you have a solid grounding in software engineering, continuous delivery, and computer science, and are looking for a career opportunity to grow and leverage those skills to the fullest while working on cutting edge technologies – Ten Mile Square is the place to be!

OVERVIEW

Ten Mile Square is looking for a talented and experienced Lead Software Engineer to lead a remote-first team of talented full-stack software developers. The successful candidate will have a history of hands-on leadership and expertise with software development methods, technologies, and tooling. The initial assignment is greenfield development of a loan origination system for an established financial institution. You will work with our technology leadership, partners, and engineers to deliver high velocity high value solutions to our client.

Salary Range (Base + Standard Bonus): $172,500 ($150K + $22,500

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a team of software engineers, software engineer in test automation (SDET), and DevOps
• Architect, design, and build a telephony integration system using Node, Apollo GraphQL, Angular or React, and a suite of AWS components including but not limited to EKS, Lambda, S3, MSK, and Aurora.  The components are primarily backend systems, but some frontend development will be needed.
• Design and implement GraphQL subgraphs and participate in a federated graph schema community of practice
• Define and enforce engineering best practices around code quality, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows on AWS
• Contribute as member of an Agile team and promote Agile practices
• Work with client executives and product team to translate business needs into requirements, epics, stories, and tasks
• Work with the client product team to groom the backlog, plan workstreams, plan sprints, and assign sprints and tasks to software engineers
• Work with principal engineers and the product team to help determine functional requirements for the system.
• Mentor developers on the team.
• Ensure technical documentation is of quality and accessible to technology team.
• Proactively collaborate with the Ten Mile team on development and knowledge sharing.
• Represent yourself and Ten Mile Square with integrity, expertise, and value.
• Maintain the confidentiality of our clients on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience as a tech lead
• 3 years of experience as a senior software engineer
• 7+ years of software development experience including 3 years of TypeScript and Node
• 2 years of experience working with GraphQL
• Expertise in developing and deploying on AWS
• Expertise in SQL
• Working knowledge of at least one of the following frontend JavaScript frameworks: Angular, Ionic, React, Vue
• Full application stack development experience: front-end to persistence
• Full software lifecycle participation: requirements to post-implementation
• Linux command line

More importantly,

• Self-motivated to PROACTIVELY identify and solve problems
• Be passionate about what you do
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly
• Detail-oriented
• High integrity and quality of work ethic
• Excellent communication skills – within team and with clients

EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE DESERVE EXCEPTIONAL BENEFITS

Ten Mile Square Technologies benefits package currently includes:

• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (including family)
• 100% company paid individual short- and long- term disability
• 100% company paid vision insurance