Software Engineer

Prefer local candidates to Chicago, IL
10+ years of lead experience over a team of at least 8 people, AWS, KPI experience, backend development

Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Required Skills for the Software Engineer:
- At least 10 years of experience designing and developing software applications in Java
- Minimum of 3 years of experience leading geographically disbursed teams - at least 8 people
- Strong Java 17
- Backend development is a MUST
- RESTful web services
- AWS knowledge IAM, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API stack, SQS, SNS, KMS
- Slick SQL queries
- DevOps
- High Availability and Reliable Solutions
- Some architecture experience

Software Engineer Overview
- As a Java Lead Engineer you will contribute to design, development and deployment of the Company's state-of-the-art digital platform

Responsibilities:
- Competent to perform all programming and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work
- Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members
- Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls
- Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems
- Drives application development focused around delivering business valuable features
- Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team
- Mentors junior developers
- Communicates with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness
- Leads development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional teams
- Performs integration testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results
- Participates in technology evaluation and recommendations
- Applies an enterprise-wide view to solutions to support the adoption of standards and practices and promote reuse