Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead
We are looking for an outstanding Engineering Lead to join our innovative team to shape the living for the better.
The position requires strong software development as well as leadership skills. In this role you will set the technical direction of the team, coordinate and contribute to development and verification activities as well as collaboration with external suppliers.
Core responsibilities
· Architect, design, and develop robust software
· Own major functionality in the Digital products tech stack: definition, implementation, integration, and maintenance.
· Collaborate and contribute insight across the whole product breadth and depth
· Focus will be on creating a superior consumer experience.
· Work directly with product owners to recommend and then implement new features.
· Work with the team to write unit and integration tests and see features through deployment into production.
· Monitor related production systems and troubleshoot any production problems to provide overall platform stability.
· Participate in code pull requests as a reviewer and author, staying open to constructive comments.
· Recommend new technologies as components of a solution when appropriate
· Design new software features through agile development practices such as chartering, story-mapping, and regular stand-up meetings.
· Bring our existing apps to a new level
· Design, develop, test and implement program source code, operating system components, backend services and software tools
· Software team Leadership:
o Guide a team of software engineers and coach them on best practices for software development.
o Lead agile meetings related to multiple projects and act as a scrum master and project manager for multiple manufacturing related applications.
o Define and analyze requirements, create work items, and assign work to a team of software engineers as needed.
You
· You have a passion for making an impact through technology while building consumer products that make a difference to the lives of millions of customers.
· You are unfazed by unfamiliar codebases and enjoy figuring complex things out on your own.
· A strong sense of ownership
· An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
· Act as collaborative leader that can work well with others.
· Use your wit, creativity and knowledge to drive projects to completion and have fun doing it.
Educational / Professional Background
· BS/MS in Computer Science or related discipline and/or 5+ years of industry and or research experience in a relevant field
· Versatile, display leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic to tackle new problems across the full stack as we continue to push technology forward
· Quality of experience is much more important than length of experience
· Ability to quickly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
· Experience in developing reusable artifacts/frameworks, re-usable assets, Industry solutions, reference architecture, design, development and QA best practice
· Experienced in designing and developing mobile SDKs and integrating mobile apps with web-services and external APIs
· Understanding of mobile security protocols, analytics and social channel integration
· Understanding various non-functional aspects in mobile application design and provide a solution to optimize performance, scalability, etc.
· Deep understanding Lean-Agile principles and have solid work experience from Scrum practices.
· Have a profound understanding of Object-oriented programming, Design Patterns and Test-driven development.
· Experience with integration of REST-based APIs
· Knowledge how to work with source code control pull requests and peer review methods
· Continous integration tools (Jenkins, etc)
· Excellent English knowledge, written and spoken
· Well-rounded interpersonal skills, and experience interacting with various personalities
· Self-motivated, fast learner, technology agnostic, pragmatic
· Exceptional communication and presentation skills
· Willingness to work in a high pressure and delivery oriented team
· Proven project participation experience
· Ability to work and deliver for several projects with tight deadlines
· Experience of Atlassian toolset: Jira &Confluence
· Experience in collaboration with UX/UI designers
· Knowledge about local storage/persistence Realm/SQLite, how to optimize and safely work with it