Vena - Technical Lead/Staff Software Developer - Data Integration

Description :

Vena Solutions is seeking a Technical Lead - Staff Software Developer to join our Data Connections team. In this role, you'll work as an engineering team leader, driving high-quality delivery of product improvements, while staying hands-on and contributing to the codebase for our cloud-native SaaS product. This role is a match for you if you are looking to combine your technical and leadership skills to enable a team of developers and work with them to deliver robust, performant and maintainable software!

How You'll Make An Impact :

- Acts as the "architect within the team", in collaboration with Software Architects.

- Leads system design for major changes/improvements in alignment with overall software architecture strategy

- Solves the team's toughest technical challenges, enables others to help solve them when possible

- Works with Product Managers to ensure plans/roadmaps are achievable, deliveries are met, and team resource gaps are understood and addressed

- Reviews team epics and projects critically, ensure theyre appropriately broken down and prioritised, and well-understood by the team

- Mentors, coaches, and teaches others in coding best practices in an open and empathetic way, through pairing, code reviews, etc.

- Ensures long-term codebase health and ensure that tech debt issues are properly prioritized in quarterly and Sprint Planning

- Advocates for and executes development initiatives, best practices and coding standards

- May act as a Guild/Chapter Lead to drive broadly impactful functional improvements across the engineering department

We'd Love to See :

- 10+ years of experience in software development focusing on backend development

- 2+ years of experience leading a software development team as a Tech Lead (or playing the role informally)

- Experience integrating with ERP systems, third party APIs and ETL processes

- Foundational understanding of algorithms and computational complexity

- Experience building, maintaining and releasing APIs used both internally and publicly using Java or equivalent languages

- Experience developing in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent cloud environments

- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline and/or equivalent experience

- Prior experience in a Scrum / Agile environment

- You are self-motivated and self-directed

- You are excited at the prospect of working on interesting technology with other friendly and enthusiastic developers

- You enjoy leading teams and seeing people come together to deliver impactful, performant and delightful software