Senior Tech Lead Software Engineer

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Who are you?

• Develops proven systems. Replicates those systems and approaches across the team so that others may learn from and improve on them.
• Play a central role in technical, business, and organizational contributions affecting the sub-department (delivery stream).
• Closely collaborates with architecture team and advocates for best practices in delivery stream
• Not only leads, but ideates new engineering efforts. Provides guidance and vision.
• Mentors and actively drives the technical skills of the immediate or extended team with consideration of their career stage and personal trajectory.
• Removes barriers by working with others around a shared need or customer benefit.
• Creates strategies that cross organizational boundaries to achieve broad business goals or influence.
• Anticipates issues or implications that their ideas would have on others, and pursues mutually beneficial strategies.
• Beyond participating in meetings, thoughtfully creates and leads meetings where helpful.
• Sets clear and challenging goals for a portfolio of work, and pursues them with enthusiasm and passion. Understands business objectives and incorporates these into this body of work. Critically reviews multiple plans and adjusts as needed.
• Drives measurable growth by scaling/mentoring teams, affecting engineering roadmaps positively, managing key metrics, creating research and/or programs.
• Partners with other teams to improve the effectiveness of our internal tooling.
• Interfaces with EMs and Senior management, and enables Lead and Sr. Lead Engineers to engage on department-level aspects of larger initiatives.
• Looks for innovation opportunities between several teams with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope.
• Proposes initial technical implementation which supports architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems.
• Ensures that goals are aligned across several teams in their delivery stream.
• Guides conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration across teams.
• Provides a point of escalation for sub-department (Deliver Stream) teams facing complex technical challenges.
• Attain a measurable impact on the work of sub-department teams.
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your sub-department.
• Exposes the work of the sub department and their business impact internally.

What you bring to the Virgin Pulse team

• Typically requires 8+ years of experience in a software engineering roles

• Consistently writes production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors. Understands when it is appropriate to leave comments, but biases towards self-documenting code.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose complete iterative solutions.
• Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within a set of domains in the delivery stream.
• Fosters a culture of observability across several teams in the delivery stream and helps them use operational data to improve the stability and performance of their domains.
• Works across teams on delivery stream to foster a culture of architecture that allows for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
• Guides several teams in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Ability to thrive in a remote organization.
• Knowledgeable in all specialties practiced within the Department or Sub Department

Why work at Virgin Pulse?