Vice President of Engineering

About the position

Position Overview

P3Hired is working with their DMV area SaaS Start-up client on their search for a Lead Software Engineer to join their development team to help design, build, and support high-quality cloud-based software, as well as maintaining and developing ongoing releases. You will be working in an agile environment with a hardworking team of other developers to design, code, test and support cloud-based software releases. This role focuses on the development of applications using Golang with Microservices architecture and the latest technologies such as Golang, Angular, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure and other cloud technologies. This is a hands-on position requiring code development, code design, architecture, and leading/mentoring other engineers.

*Candidates must be current residents of the United States and legally authorized to work in the U.S. at the time of application. We are unable to sponsor visas at this time. 

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage the overall Software development team and process
• Provide guidance and mentoring of team members
• Develop strategies and assign responsibilities to team members
• Develop and support cloud-based software, as well as maintaining and developing ongoing releases.
• Work with other developers, engineers to develop and maintain high quality applications.
• Review functional specifications to ensure solution is technically sound
• Perform specification and code reviews to ensure that solutions are appropriate and that standards are being followed
• Collaborate within an Agile team environment to define, design, develop, test, support new releases.
• Participate in a 24-hour on-call rotation for after-hours support and application releases. This includes researching problems discovered through testing or support and developing solutions to the problems.
• Translate functional specifications into technical specifications and code, test work according to standards
• Provide technical guidance to the development team to create, maintain, and enhance diverse software systems
• Help drive adoption of core technologies, architectural guidelines and standards
• Help drive software development best practices from technology selection and workflow to coding standards
• Help accelerate adoption of standards and new technologies
• Effectively communicate with business and technical teams at all levels

Qualifications

• Experience building and managing development teams in an Agile Methodology
• 6+ years of application development using Golang or C, C++, C# if no Golang experience
• 6+ years of application development using Angular and Bootstrap
• 4+ years of application development using Microservices Architecture and Rest API
  2+ years of experience developing and deploying applications in the Azure environment
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concept
• Experience with Linux environment
• Experience with DevOps/CI/CD and software development tools such as JIRA, BitBucket, GIT, Confluence and Visual Studio, etc.
• Experience with Azure Cloud is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker or other containerized technology is a plus
• Experience with SQL is a plus
• Understanding of SOC2 and PCI regulatory requirements is a plus

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