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NO C2C or 1099.\nDescription: Lead Software Engineers are primarily responsible for designing highly complex solutions and then building and overseeing the execution of those designs.\nPerformance Tester - iGrid:\n* Experience: 3+ years of hands-on experience in software quality assurance and performance testing.\n* Tool Proficiency: Strong experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling) and monitoring tools (e.g., AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana).\n* Technical Skills: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git), API testing (REST, SOAP), and basic database/server administration. ESRI and/or GIS experience\n* Analytical Mindset: Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to interpret complex data, graphs, and server logs.\n* Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).\n\nIndividuals with this role are required to:\nDesign and build highly complex software solutions using agile/XP/TDD.\nLead a team in programming well-designed, efficient code independently.\nCollaborate with designers, developers, and product owners to build cloud-native software solutions targeting PCF, Azure, AWS, mobile iOS/Android, etc.\nClearly communicate team-wide progress and identify blocking processes/patterns that hold a team back.\nParticipate in paired programming and code reviews with mentees to expand the team’s collective knowledge and understanding of software engineering.\nComplete independent research to refine best practices and present work to peers.\nLead Software Engineers must possess:\nA breadth of experience building software solutions (through a strong mix of independent research/projects and industry expertise).\n7-9 years’ previous experience in software development. (Either 9 years of experience specifically in software development or seven years of experience in software development in combination with 2 years alternative experience in a related field). Ideally has a portfolio of work - code samples, etc.\nSignificant familiarity and comfort in using IDEs. Knows short-cuts and frequents operations that speeds up development time.\nDeep and solid understanding of APIs. Have been involved in designing/building/implementing APIs.\nConsidered an expert of cloud-native software engineering best practices.\nFamiliarity with a several frameworks. Resulting code is concise and easy-to-follow.\nAbility to build a custom framework (when necessary).\nExperience with automation and optimization. Looks for ways to create repeatable patterns that increase the efficiency of the team.\nExperience and ability to manage and optimize databases.\nUnderstanding of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in any language. Quick to picking up a new language or adopting a more recent version of a language.\nFamiliarity and ability to comfortably work with multiple platforms.\nDeep experience turning complex ideas into workable solutions.\nPrevious experience collaborating on a cross-functional team.\nDeep understanding of the development cycle.\nAbility to debug and avoid future problems by building more robust solutions.\nAbility to look at previous personal or team experience and use this to analyze mistakes/successes, draw conclusions, and design future solutions. Resulting solutions have few bugs and quick remediation times.\nPrevious experience translating business needs into valuable solutions for customers.\nPrevious experience building solutions with vulnerabilities in mind. Thinks in advance about possible system bottlenecks, and looks out for vulnerabilities and problems. Remediates these issues as part of the design of a new solution.\nExperience acting as a strong instructor for team members.\nExperience building solutions with the larger team in mind. Solutions have the goal of improving software engineering at the team level.\nExperience with teaching and mentoring team members at various levels.\nPrevious involvement in the long-term vision of projects and software engineering practices.\nDemonstrated strong soft skills.\nExpertise and ability to rapidly make decisions for the team.\nA mastery of cybersecurity principles such as authentication, authorization, and encryption. Ability to recommend and leverage common security libraries applicable to their language stack and champion secure programming best practices. In-depth experience with common attack vectors, such as SQL injection, Denial of Service (DoS), Cross-Site Scripting, etc., and methods to limit exposure. Coaches organize the prevention and remediation of potential security vulnerabilities.\nIn-depth experience working with multiple CI/CD stacks. Guides product teams on the setup of CI/CD for new products and coaches’ organization on DevOps best practices. Leads the evaluation and selection/development of new CI/CD tools and processes.\nTurn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work to complete as part of a product team.\nCoach and mentor software developers.\nProvide technical guidance to leadership so that solutions are built with innovation and sustainability in mind.\nLearn the business drivers of a product and help drive the technical direction of a product to fulfill the desired vision.\nRecommend and implement best practices and innovative solutions to drive digital transformation in the organization.\n“ Beware of scams. 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