Lead Sr. Software Engineer
Who we are:
PlayerLync is one of the most innovative enterprise mobile solutions on the market. We’re a growing, dynamic, team-oriented software company committed to providing the best in class product and service to our customers. Our enterprise software solution integrates mobile content distribution and management with e-learning, digital forms and daily operational performance tracking all in one universal solution. PlayerLync’s software is used by very high-profile companies to move massive amounts of files on and off devices efficiently, limiting the impact on network bandwidth while mobilizing millions of employees every day. In just a few years, our customer base has rapidly grown across multiple industries including professional sports franchises, top restaurant concepts, field services organizations, health care, and global retail companies.
What we are looking for:
It’s an exciting time at PlayerLync as we are designing and building the next generation of our backend system. We are focused on creating a cloud-first solution that’s based on microservices and CI/CD that empowers our development team. If you get fired up about this kind of stuff, please continue to read.
We are looking for a highly talented lead Sr. backend software engineer who can manage a highly effective team to design and build the next generation of our platform.
Required Skills / Qualifications:
- Possess excellent and proven skills designing and building RESTFul Web Services
- You are a developer at heart, hence you have a solid understanding of design patterns and best practices
- Experience working with Agile methodologies
- Experience with Linux
- Possess excellent and proven skills with managing and leading a team
- Have a tendency to propose smart yet simple solutions, individually or with groups
- Possess high-level communication skills
- Understand the importance of continuous feedback and recognition
- Have the ability to work in close collaboration with a team in an ambitious and fast-paced environment
Preferred Skills / Qualifications:
- Experience with multiple programming languages (Python, GoLang, .NET Core, JavaScript, Java, etc.).
- Experience with PHP
- Experience with Web Server (Apache, Nginx)
- Experience designing and developing relational databases for OLTP (MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, AWS Aurora, etc.)
- Cloud Platforms (Amazon AWS, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure)
- Experience providing relatively accurate estimations of complexity and time for an engineering effort
- Experience creating and maintaining coding style guides and best practices
- CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis-CI)
- Experience designing and creating customer-facing enterprise applications
Nice To Have Skills / Qualifications:
- Experience with Containerization (Docker, Rancher)
- Experience with IaC (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, TerraForm, CloudFormation)
- Experience with AWS (Kinesis, Redshift, Aurora) & Kafka
- Experience with NoSQL (Solr, ElasticSearch, Redis, MongoDB, etc.)
- Experience with GraphQL
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop applications for maximum speed, scalability, and reliability
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
- Lead and participate in code reviews to ensure high quality and maintainability
- Support and develop more junior software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities.
- Manage and lead a team of developers
- Participate in early design discussions and collaborate with product team members to estimate tasks and solidify delivery schedules
- Introduce and educate colleagues on standards, best practices, and new techniques/frameworks/libraries
Benefits:
- Great culture
- New MacBook Pro
- Multiple large monitors
- Food Wall
- Espresso machine
- Influence technical decisions
- Technically excellent A+ Team solving very hard interesting problems
- A small company where your work has a direct and visible impact on company performance
Job Type:
- Direct applicants only, no agencies or recruiters, please.
- This is not a remote position.
- The candidate has to be able to commute to Denver Tech Center