Engineering Team Lead

Progineer Technologies is a leading outsourcing company that provides a multitude of Software Services spanning the complete software development cycle. The services include:

- Software Architecture and Design
- Software Development
- Quality Assurance (QA) services
- Systems Integration
- Customer Support
- Business Intelligence
- Big Data and Data Analytics
- Hardware Design Verification.

Technology:

• Our stack has two main components: the web app (PHP, MySQL) powering the customer experience and the data ETL pipeline (Python) powering the maintenance of our database of companies. We host on AWS.

What You'll Do

• Supervise a team of 2-4 engineers across the stack, setting the path for what it means to build technology the right way. Establish best practices for development to avoid common pitfalls.
• Champion and lead implementation toward modern cloud-native technologies to enable the growth of product and team while maintaining high velocity. Design and implement a best-for-the-use-case technology stack.
• Ensure the team is resourced and capable of delivering key projects by contributing to project and task planning, time estimations, scheduling, and staffing. Work with the founders on technology organizational design and planning.
• Be the primary contributor to our backend codebase
• Improve code quality through code reviews, unit and feature testing, and software design
• Share insights and discuss tradeoffs of different approaches to solve difficult problems, ensuring that effective, long-lasting solutions are implemented.
• Quickly recover from technical debt through refactoring, code-hardening, and performance-tuning to ensure reusability and availability of documentation.

•  A senior-level software engineer (5+ years professionally) - you've led design discussions, and though you're strongest at backend development of web applications, you're comfortable across the stack.
• Preferred Skills: PHP, Python, database schema design, familiarity with Javascript and FE web frameworks
• Collaborative, with the ability to give and receive feedback and ask for help or support when necessary
• A clear communicator with both technical and less technical stakeholders
• An expert in cloud computing (AWS) 

What You Bring:

• Strong opinions about good engineering habits that you are willing to debate and implement.
• An interest in architecture, roadmapping, schema design, and even some feature prioritization.
• Experience translating business and customer needs into features and breaking down features into technical components and specific pieces of engineering work.
• Perspective: when to move fast or slow, when to build custom vs adopt a framework vs buy, etc

IMPORTANT:

• Due to the high volume of applications we receive for our job openings, all candidates are encouraged to write to us when applying why they think we should consider their application and why they think they are suitable for the job.
• It is highly recommended to answer the following screening question when filling the application: "Kindly list the job skills you have that are relevant to the job qualifications/requirements stated in the job post."
• Remember to provide your scale (0-10) on each required qualification. This would increase their chances of being interviewed.

Good Luck!