Software Engineering Lead - Lace

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in the required language ( Haskell, Javascript, Scala, Rust)
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Write idiomatic code that satisfies the acceptance criteria of a given task
• Write tests (unit tests, property tests) that provide sufficient and non-superfluous efficient code coverage.
• Document code and APIs concisely and unambiguously
• Break down tasks into subtasks that are completable in a short amount of time and report completion as required by managers
• Pragmatically adhere to software engineering principles (modularity, incremental development, no premature optimization, no feature creep, no speculative generality, ...)
• JavaScript/ES6/TypeScriptHTML/CSS/LESS/SASS
• React
• React Storybook + Chromatic
• CSS Preprocessing
• NPM, Webpack, Gulp
• State management tooling
• Browser extensions
• Coding best practices
• Testing practices
• Jest
• UX/Design Principles
• Basic knowledge of image and design editing tools e.g. Sketch, Photoshop, Zeplin etc
• NodeJS
• Docker

Responsibilities:

• Follow agile software development practices
• Work with teams across multiple time zones
• Work independently on software development tasks
• Be proactive and require minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks
• Review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists
• Contribute to the design of algorithms
• Write clean, straightforward, efficient code that satisfies previously agreed acceptance criteria and specifications
• Commit often and submit small pull requests frequently
• Cover your code with unit, property and integration tests when applicable
• Review the pull requests of your team mates
• Fix bugs in your own code and in legacy code from others
• Be available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Write documentation for the code
• Write technical user manuals
• Be knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation
• Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography
• Mentor direct reports and junior team members
• Be responsible for project decisions and architecture
• Motivate, develop and progress fellow team members
• Communicate openly with all team members, address any issues head on
• Empowering your team to provide the best results by organizing clear processes and coordinating team efforts