lead developer

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Help design, develop, and deploy reliable backend and front-end services for web applications

• Help create, modify, and scale backend database schemas, stored procedures, triggers or other components as necessary to support evolving user base and application features

• Produce well-tested, well-documented, performance-oriented code

• Leverage provisioning systems to build and configure virtual environments to support development and functional testing efforts

• Construct or develop meta-systems, scripts, or other tools necessary to support development or testing of end-to-end solution

• Collaborate with frontend development, cloud infrastructure, quality assurance, or other technical teams to ensure smooth deployment of each product release

• Be a key contributor to overall user experience and design of end-to-end solution

• Help explain or present designs and constraints to stakeholders and technical teams

• Collaborate with product owners to understand needs and identify features to address them

• Work with leadership to define and adapt delivery schedules of features

• Provide regular status updates to leadership

• Assist in supporting and troubleshooting deployed systems

• Participate in code reviews focusing on performance, reliability and maintainability

• Continuously learn about new technologies and help keep the team informed of industry developments and evolving best practices

• Contribute to ongoing improvement of programming processes and methodology

• Establish and maintain consistent user interface branding across products and platforms

• Work side by side with the Lead Infrastructure Architect

• Thrive in an agile service delivery team, participating in Daily Stand ups, Kanban ceremonies, Retrospective ceremonies, and brainstorming idealization sessions

Essential Knowledge/Skills:

• Experience in developing REST API services

• Experience with AWS including EC2, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3,

• SQS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Identify and Access Management services

• Experience in creating overall style of web application with HTML and CSS

• Java, Python, Node.JS, CSS, Jquery, D3js, SVG, threeJS, Preact/React, Nginx, Kubernetes/Docker,

• Experience with gathering information to synthesize functional needs

• Ability to perform studies and assessments

• Team Player: Maintain productive and influential working relationships with internal partners within the department as well as cross-functionally (project managers, product development, etc.) Interact with clients as needed.

• Nice to Have: Previous experience in government projects

• Hands-On as needed