Technical Lead

The Technical Lead will be a hands-on leader instrumental in developing Opi’s 2.0 Cloud platform. (S)he will lead and mentor a team of full stack, UX, and QA resources in architecting, designing, coding, and testing the OPI Blue Web App. (S)he will work closely with the embedded/firmware team to provide a complete IoT solution, balancing the sustaining of the existing platform with implementation of the new. Key responsibilities include: Architect and Implement OPI Blue 2.0 Understand, document, and identify issues with current architecture Understand vision and direction for next-gen platform Architect next-gen system in collaborations with the cloud team Work with Product Management to implement balance of customer-facing features and back-end architecture (steel thread) Hands-on, lead by example in implementation Maintain OPI Blue 1.0 Explain tech debt to PO and help prioritize Organize team to efficiently maintain and respond to field issues Hands-on, lead by example in implementation Mentor and Grow the Cloud Team Teach by example Provide learning opportunities Implement best practices (e.g., XP) Establish a culture of teamwork, fast iteration, quick decisions, continuous improvement, and a passion for the customer. Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering Advanced degree or certifications a plus Qualifications: 7 years’ experience as a full-stack developer Led a small team, or a kick-ass individual contributor that is a natural leader and has informally led Expertise in a modern tech stack (MERN, MEAN, etc). Specific expertise with REACT, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL is desirable. Experience with messaging, MQTT, protobuf, websockets specifically Expertise with AWS products (Route53, S3, EC2, IoT, RDB), Docker, and K8S Expertise at scalability and architecting based on appropriate constraints Expertise in REST APIs, both design and implementation of other APIs. Experience working with and leading UX resources Experience with reliability, monitoring, and designing for uptime Experience with security (design for security, but ensure with pen testing) Expert at Agile software development and tools (JIRA, GitHub, Confluence, etc)