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)