This position is an advanced level position within the Valeris software engineering organization.  Candidates that are selected for this position must have significant prior experience in a lead software engineering role and exhibit an advanced level of software design and technical skills along with the interpersonal skills required to lead the day-to-day technical direction of the scrum team.  This is a hands-on role where the candidate would be expected to contribute to coding and other delivery tasks.

• Technical ownership of approaches and solutions that are built and supported by the scrum team
• Responsible for enforcing code quality, coding practices and architectural standards for the team
• Provides technical consultation to team Product Owner, Engineering Manager, and other business stakeholders
• Works with Product Owner to prioritize and oversee day-to-day technical work
• Assists team in understanding technical requirements and feasibility
• Leads technical design sessions with scrum team
• Mentors junior members on the team and onboards new hires into the code bases and technical stack
• Develops software solutions to satisfy business use-cases and specified requirements per team Product Owner and Manager.
• Learns and implements commercial off-the-shelf or SaaS products into a solution where necessary
• Looks for opportunities to improve and refactor existing codebases
• Able to break down complex requirements into system design, actionable work items, and unit-testable code
• Develops UI mocks, scripts, or other relevant proofs of concepts
• Creates documentation, flowcharts, layouts, and diagrams to solidify understanding and preserve knowledge
• Provides support for existing applications for both issues and enhancements
• Assists with customer onboarding of API products
• Updates and improves existing codebases as needed to provide framework update or dependency upgrades
• Oversees software releases
• Participates in all SCRUM activities
• Participates and provides in-depth code reviews to ensure code quality and best solution approaches
• Assists other members of the SCRUM team to ensure all sprint commitments are met
• Actively works to stay current with the latest trends and technologies in the industry by participating in education opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in professional organizations.
• On time adherence to training deadlines for all corporate policies and procedures governing access to confidential data
• Ensure all SOPs are followed with consistency

• Bachelor's or Associate's degree in a technology-related field of study such as computer science, or relevant work experience, along with 7+ years of professional experience in a senior software engineering role. 
• Prior experience in technical leadership role with responsibility for technical design and delivery
• Prior experience leading technical delivery by offshore teams is a strong plus
• Relevant and demonstratable work experience delivering API solutions for external customers
• Experience in managing multiple API versions (i.e., semantic versioning strategies) to ensure non-breaking changes and backwards compatibility
• Experience implementing observability, logging, and tracing to identify potential performance improvement areas and highlight issues.
• Software solutions engineering experience with the following:
• SOLID principles and object-oriented software design
• Advanced experience of applying various software development patterns (CQRS, Singleton, Factory, Adapter, etc.) with demonstratable prior usage
• Strong relational database design skills
• Advanced SQL query and stored procedure experience, along with index and query optimization.
• .Net Framework using C#
• API development (REST)
• Microservice architecture, including backend-for-frontend design patterns
• ORM framework experience (Entity Framework, Dapper, etc.)
• Event-driven design and experience with at least one platform (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Azure Event Grid/Bus, etc.)
• Cloud native tooling experience and experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes is a huge plus
• Azure native tooling experience such as Azure Functions and API Management is highly desirable.
• The ability to learn new languages and technologies as needed to work in the Valeris company stack
• Able to provide overall system designs with a greater understanding of the “bigger picture” across other Valeris systems.
• Able to communicate directly with business and stakeholders for key initiatives and projects
• Demonstrable knowledge of OWASP security best practices
• Strong experience utilizing a source control system such as Git
• Experience working with advanced branching and merging strategies
• Ability to troubleshoot, debug and support codebases
• Experience managing software builds in a release pipeline such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins or equivalent
• Able to break down tasks into unit-testable code
• Ability to provide levels of effort for coding tasks
• Good working knowledge of common office software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Ability to follow instructions and work in a team environment.
• Detail-oriented and motivated for success