Team Lead Software Engineer

HOMEE, Inc. is hiring a Team Lead Full Stack Engineer to build and support its core platform and APIs. The role contributes technical direction and architectural decisions, develops integrations, and leads a software engineering team delivering scalable software for insurance claims servicing.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze user needs and develop software solutions
• Work with the product owners to determine specification requirements
• Write maintainable, well-documented code with extensive test coverage
• Recommend and perform software upgrades to optimize operational efficiency
• Collaborate with other developers to design and optimize code
• Build high-performance and scalable server-side technologies
• Lead a small team of software engineers, setting technical direction, priorities, and delivery expectations
• Own sprint planning, backlog grooming, and estimation with the product owners, keeping the team accountable to commitments
• Run code reviews and set engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and security
• Mentor and coach engineers through 1:1s, growth plans, and regular performance feedback
• Partner with hiring managers on recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new engineers
• Remove blockers and escalate risks, and report team progress and delivery metrics to engineering leadership
• Coordinate incident response and on-call rotation for services the team owns

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional software development experience shipping high-volume, scalable applications on a service-oriented architecture
• In-depth knowledge of RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL
• Experience with TypeScript frameworks like React and VueJS
• Experience with Node.js frameworks such as Fastify and NextJS
• Familiarity with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres
• Experience with AWS; specifically, AWS Lambda
• Thorough understanding of architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
• Knowledge of test automation frameworks and experience in test authoring
• Proven ability to self-manage but also work as part of a close-knit team using Agile development for tracking progress, issues, etc
• 2+ years leading a software engineering team as a team lead, tech lead, or engineering manager
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and running code reviews at scale
• Track record of delivering multi-engineer projects on schedule in an Agile environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders