Lead Software Engineer - Nodal Exchange

Description

Primary Responsibilities Include:

• Be responsible for motivating, leading, and managing a team of engineers that build services for a well-defined exchange domain.
• Collaborate with Lead colleagues that run teams from other exchange and clearing domains.
• Architect distributed systems with high availability, performance, scalability, and security in mind. Ensure solutions are testable and maintainable, while being easy to operate and support. As a Lead, you will have significant autonomy to achieve these goals.
• Review code developed by the engineers on  the team and provide feedback to ensure adherence to best practices (e.g., style guidelines, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
• Mentor and grow the careers of the team members, from hiring through performance management and reviews. Continually coach and develop the  talent and skill set of the engineers.
• Nodal has a hybrid work culture, and we are looking for a Lead that thrives in an environment that values in-office team interactions.
• Run the  team’s after-hours on-call rotation, and take on-call shifts. Lead incident reviews to identify and implement prevention ideas that ultimately reduce the number of incidents. 
• Run the team’s agile processes, including capacity management and long term planning

Requirements:

• 10+ years of engineering experience designing, building, deploying and operating distributed, high-volume services 
• 3+ years of experience in management, leading a team of engineers of different experience levels.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to earn the respect of senior engineers while leading and coaching all team members. Ability to present to different audiences, addressing disparate stakeholder perspectives
• Ability to translate business ideas and requirements into technical solutions and drive large-scale efforts across multiple teams
• Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, and client and server-side Javascript. Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design, system design, data structures, and algorithms. Deep background with APIs and API architecture and design.
• Strong background in Linux and SQL desired. 
• Experience with modern SDLC pipelines, including git and DevOps tool chains using Bamboo or Jenkins
• Experience with application security, including OWASP and DevSecOps approaches, like static code analysis
• Experience with software delivery supporting infrastructure like Docker containers
• Experience with brokering and queuing technology desired, like RabbitMQ
• Experience with Software as a Service and public clouds like AWS, Azure, or GCP desired. 

What We Offer Our Employees:

•  A collaborative workplace culture where we value your contributions and ideas
•  A comprehensive benefits plan which includes, but not limited to immediate access to low-cost health insurance plans (highly company subsidized with an employee cost as low as $10/month), a retirement savings plan with a competitive company match, and PTO that includes vacation, holidays, floating holidays, and unlimited sick leave, and company-paid life and disability insurance
•  Contemporary workspaces designed to inspire innovative thinking in a fun, relaxed environment 
•  Catered weekly breakfast and lunch
•  Free full-service gym access onsite
•  Workplace flexibility - we value work/life balance, designed to fit your team, and your and your family’s needs