Working hours: full overlap with CST 

About the Role:

As a Lead Software Engineer, your responsibilities are to: 

● Collaborate with others efficiently and effectively to accomplish tasks on the desired timeline.

● Learn and apply new business and technical concepts quickly.

● Provide technical leadership to the team, ensuring design and architecture are aligned with the FindLaw strategy, standards, and best practices.

● Participate in all aspects of the agile process from story creation through release.

● Design, develop, test, and deliver application features that delight customers.

● Contribute non-functional requirements to projects to achieve long application health and stability.

● Understand and apply current secure development practices.

● Maintain an understanding of industry trends and use this knowledge to bring new innovative ideas to the group.

● Support Production applications as needed to prevent service interruptions and maintain a high level of quality for our customers.

● Communicate effectively in written and verbal form with colleagues and vendor representatives.

● Mentor junior engineers to sustain a high level of development standards.

● Effectively manage your priorities and time.

● Present technical concepts and proposals with business and technical audiences in a way that resonates with them.

● Tackle the largest technical challenges facing the team. 

Your qualifications for a Lead Software Engineer are: 

● A bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, computer science, or a related field.

● Minimum 7 years in a technical development role.

● 5+ years of experience developing enterprise Java applications using Spring, with unittests.

● Experience designing, delivering, and maintaining RESTful services.

● Experience with cloud services from AWS or Azure.

● Experience with messaging services like SQS, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, or similar.

● Experience managing efficient database connections and transactions in Java.

● Experience writing and executing complex SQL.

● Previously delivered major application features used in Production.

● Strong passion for technology and a willingness to learn and apply new skills.

● Proven design skills with significant knowledge of core libraries and common design patterns.

● Ability to follow standards that produce clean code that is easy to understand.

● Understanding of security testing practices and methodologies.

● Customer-first approach to software development.

● Able to work independently with minimal direction to meet commitments.

● Strong focus on system performance, scalability, with the ability to troubleshoot large and complex software systems.

● Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

● Inclination towards automation, unit tests, integration tests, and adopting agile practices.

● Hands-on experience with security vulnerability scanning tools (Snyk, Qualys)